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I am helping fix a friend's PC. There are several problems, but one is that the hard drive became corrupted and it would not boot up windows. We have had to reinstall windows XP home, although I was able to make an image of all the data and files first.

 

The drive had MS Office installed on it. I am certain it is the 2003 variant, but we do not have the original install discs. Does anyone know how I can extract the product key from the disk image please? I have tried several tools I found on the web, such as loadhive, but without success. Surely there must be an easy way to dig it out?

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Peter!! I need that for someone and KNEW I had seen it! THANKS!!

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Great - it appears to have worked. However now I have the Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 key, I need the installation software. Does anyone know if I can download it. Again I have looked on the internet but can't seem to find it easily.

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It might be, but my friends are not going to find Open Office easy to use (esp the spreadsheet) and they have paid the full whack for Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003.

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I had one of the later versions of MS Office (probably not the very latest) installed on my PC at work recently. Why is it that software companies produce a perfectly good piece of software, then ruin it by bloating it with unwanted features that merely irritate. I can hardly think of any long standing software that wasn't far better three or four versions back.

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