Question : Retrieving Office 2007 License Code from a Backup Drive

I have a client w/ a Vista laptop that was crashing constantly. Went ahead and cloned the C: drive to an external drive and did a full installation of Windows Vista. I am now in the process of restoring all the applications.

Don't have the box for the Office 2007 CDs. Is there some way of retrieving the license code for Microsoft Office 2007 by searching through the configuration files in the Office12 folder?

Answer : Retrieving Office 2007 License Code from a Backup Drive

My suggestion is to convert Clonezilla disk image into a virtual machine which you can launch the virtual machine to retrieve the Office 2007 licence code.

For details, please see the link below.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-clonezilla/

I do not suggest you to take ownership of the folder \Windows\System32\Config in your cloned external drive unless you make a backup of the drive image first.