Extracting Product Key and Windows type from crashed WinXP installation?

[Etop Udoh]

I have a harddrive that has the contents of a crashed version of Windows
XP.
Is there any way to pull up the registry or file from that harddrive and
retrieve the Win XP type (like Pro, Corp, Media Center, Home, etc.) as
well
as the product key for that Windows installation ?
The computer that the harddrive was in crashed and wouldn't boot or
even post.

Thanks...
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[R. McCarty]

Is the drive usable ? ( Platters Spin and mountable ). There
is a provision of Regedit that allows you to access a Remote
system Registry. However for that to work, it would need to
be up & running. If you place the drive in another "Similar"
hardware platform (IDE Controller/Mass Storage) you might
be able to boot to Safe Mode and run an inventory tool such
as Belarc Advisor which will decrypt Product keys. It really
depends on whether the drive is functional.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have a harddrive that has the contents of a crashed version of
Windows XP.
Is there any way to pull up the registry or file from that
harddrive and retrieve the Win XP type (like Pro, Corp, Media
Center, Home, etc.) as well
as the product key for that Windows installation ?
The computer that the harddrive was in crashed and wouldn't boot or
even post.

See my response to your OTHER (one of anyway) post.

Please try to cross-post if you feel you need to in the future.
Multi-posting makes it harder for you to get all the answers at once and
makes it difficult for those answering to see what others have told you
elsewhere and build on it/discuss it.