‘You have lost the CD cover that contained the product key but still has the original CD’. This is very common situation among computer users. We have already seen How to recover or View Windows Vista Product Key? – here is a small utility that can help you view/recover lost Product key of Windows, MS-Office and SQL Server.
This is possible using a small free utility called ‘ProduKey’. It displays the ProductID and the CD-Key of MS-Office, Windows, Exchange Server, and SQL Server installed on your computer.
You can view this information for your current running operating system or for another operating system/computer by using command-line options. This utility can be useful if you lost the product key of your Windows/Office and you want to reinstall it on your computer.
ProduKey does not require any installation. In order to start using it, just run the executable file – produkey.exe The main window of ProduKey displays the list of Windows, Office, and SQL Server products installed on your system.
ProduKey Utility: More Information – Download
One very handy utility to keep you out of trouble, when original CD cover goes missing. It is free and very useful!
What about recovering the key from a corrupted Windows?
Thanks mutu26! That is a great piece of software! Your awesome!!!
At work with sql swever advise try-repair for sql server,as far as i know tool is free,it can help with this problem and retrieve the data, that was considered to be lost,mwill extract housekeeping data from the source database and preview the data, that can be recovered,this tool is a good solution to recover data from corrupted databases in MS SQL Server format,restore databases represent files, like any other documents, they can be easily corrupted by viruses, all sorts of malware, hard drive failures, file system errors, incorrect user actions, etc,supports both data extraction to your hard drive as scripts in SQL format and data export directly to a database in MS SQL Server format.