How to find the Windows XP Product Key from the Windows XP CD, itself.
1. Insert the Installation CD into a computer's CD/DVD Drive.
2. Explore/Open the CD in My Computer and navigate to the i386 folder.
3. Do a search of the i386 folder for the file name: UNATTEND.txt ...open the UNATTEND.txt file and scroll down to the last line.
4. You will find your Windows XP Product key there.
NOTE: I have no idea if this works on Vista or Win7, or even if it works on ALL release versions of XP, but it worked on mine.
This post was edited by ghot on Aug 28 2011 09:28am