Topic: O.K. How do I get my O.P. CD-Key from a my old HD

[GE-Raven]

I tried search and it has not been my friend (On the forum).

I am fairly sure it was stored in the old registry and I know their are some tools to open a registry off a "non-active" windows partition (The drive is fine I just have started fresh).  The deal is in my move to my new house (which is AWESOME) the only CD I can't find is my O.P. CD.  I am fairly sure I have a backup copy of the disk... I know I can borrow a friends for the install... but I, like an idiot, failed to write down my CD-Key.  I seem to remember someone having this issue before and finding a way to get it from the registry of the old machine. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated... Thanks...

GE-Raven

[FireSoul]

*sigh* .. I know this..   *bangs head*.

[RazalYllib]

The Key is stored in the registry.

But I belive the value is encrypted.  The path in regedit :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GameSpy\CDKeys

It might be posible to "copy/port" that value over to the other machine and get it to work without getting the prompt to enter key after initial install.  I have never done it, but I remember in beta taking the key out (with a backup registry just in case) and receiveing the prompt to re-enter key.  It might be worth a shot.

[3dot14]

I have tried to export the registry key to a file, and reenter it after a reinstall, (on the same machine) and it works

[GE-Raven]

THanks for all the help guys... anyone want to recommend their favorite registry reading tool?  There appear to be tons of them...  For point of reference as far as I know... OP is the only key I need to recover.

GE-Raven

[RazalYllib]

Well there ya go, it must work, brute force as it were.

[CaptJosh]

Well, if you have nothing else, windows regedit is ok, but I prefer Lavasoft's RegHance. much better at searching your registry. Find it at http://www.lavasoftusa.com/