Sony VAIO SVF15N17CXS
16GB PC3-12800
i7
1TB HDD
Windows 8.1 Professional Build 9600
Ok, I feel dumb for asking this since I have been working IT for over eight years now but I cannot figure this out (after two days of trying). I have the aforementioned model and it came with Windows 8. I did not annotate the Product Key prior to upgrading to Windows 8.1, followed by Windows 8.1 Professional. I attempted to run the recovery, both boot from and create media from, but was told that required files are missing. After some research, I found that this is due to upgrading the OS and is a common problem. I am replacing my HDD with an Intel 730 Series 480 SSD. Prior to doing so, I would like to find my product key somehow from the recovery partition. I have mounted the partition and assigned a drive letter via diskpart and taken ownership of the entire drive. After looking through many scripts, ini, etc. files on the partition via notepad, I have yet to locate the product key for the original Windows 8. Is there a way to get it from the .WIM on the recovery partition?... Or is it still in my BIOS somewhere? Any help is much appreciated.
16GB PC3-12800
i7
1TB HDD
Windows 8.1 Professional Build 9600
Ok, I feel dumb for asking this since I have been working IT for over eight years now but I cannot figure this out (after two days of trying). I have the aforementioned model and it came with Windows 8. I did not annotate the Product Key prior to upgrading to Windows 8.1, followed by Windows 8.1 Professional. I attempted to run the recovery, both boot from and create media from, but was told that required files are missing. After some research, I found that this is due to upgrading the OS and is a common problem. I am replacing my HDD with an Intel 730 Series 480 SSD. Prior to doing so, I would like to find my product key somehow from the recovery partition. I have mounted the partition and assigned a drive letter via diskpart and taken ownership of the entire drive. After looking through many scripts, ini, etc. files on the partition via notepad, I have yet to locate the product key for the original Windows 8. Is there a way to get it from the .WIM on the recovery partition?... Or is it still in my BIOS somewhere? Any help is much appreciated.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 Professional (6.3 Build 9600)
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Sony SVF15N17CXS
- CPU
- Intel Core i7-4500U
- Motherboard
- Intel CPPC
- Memory
- 16GB PC3-12800
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 735M
- Browser
- Internet Explorer 11
- Antivirus
- Symantec Endpoint