Sadly, the Win7 HD is not operational. Doesn't matter much as I won an
identical laptop on evilBay, so all I will need to do is insert the Linux Mint
HD and it should fly.
>
>> Where would I find the key? If I can locate that, then maybe I
>> can create a new Win7 HD with one of those recovery disks from eBay that
>> kave no key.
>
>If the W7 machine is still operational, a vbs tool "productkey.vbs" can
>get the key. It grabs the binary product key from the registry, and
>converts it into the 'normal' human-readable key.
>
>Here is one of them. It looks sensible, seems to not have any nasty
>hidden things going on, and seems to work for me):
>https://gist.github.com/eyecatchup/d577a2628666a0ad1375#file-get-win7-productkey-vbs
>
>Click the 'Raw' button to get the script as plain text, you'll need to
>copy/paste the code into a text file, and rename it to a .vbs file The
>key should be 5 sets (separated by a minus sign) of 5 letters/numbers
>from the following set: "BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789"
>
>If it's an upgrade key, you may need to have an XP disk to hand to
>'qualify' the install (I've never done an XP->7 upgrade). Depending on
>the age of the source disk, you'll no doubt have a ton of updates to do.
>
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