Implementing XP-Key in Recovery-CD

Hello,

because I want to put my XP-license-key
(sticker on Thinkpad bottom - T43p)
into my recovery-partition (prefer CD),
I need to know if anybody knows how the crc-checksums in the .CRI-files
are calculated by the command "mverify.exe".

My problem is, is have managed to change the key on the first recovery-CD, but
after I started the recovery and R&R restarted and checks the files
on HD it stops recovering (error-message), and I guess, it is
because the checksum of the image-file (.IMD) in which the key is,
has changed (of course) and so it does not match with the
crc which is written in the corresponding .CRI of the .IMD-File.

I need to calculate it new, but it only seems to be done by
the mverify.exe-routine, and unfortunately it is not an ordinary
crc6,-8,.. or md5,... cheksum.
It is only 2 byte (hex, so 4 Alphanumerics).

The mverify.exe was not easy for me to get, because it was only for a short
moment visible, when R&R was updated in Windows. Afterwards it has been
deleted and vanished in one of the crypted archives.

But the one exe file I saved will not really work properly.

So anyone an idea?

Kind regards

Brandon

 

Ok, maybe another approach to solving my problem:

does anyone know a way/tool, to get behind the crc-mechanism
just by comparison for instance some of the mverify crc
(many files on the CD have one)
with their corresponding MD5 ?

Regards

Brandon

 

Can't you just use the OEM key? (The one that is already there)

 

Hi,

I could, but I want to use the one on the sticker on the laptop-bottom.

Brandon

 

No one does.. unless you have a retail Windows XP and you type in the code and then activate via phone.