HP envy lost power how do I access c drive

[m2igm]

My HP Envy has lost power. I've removed the hard drive, but I can only see the d and f drives. How do I access the c drive, I need to recover MS Office keys. Is it a separate device or a hidden partition, or ?

[erico]

You may be able to go to the Microsoft store online to find the MS Office keys.

There is no guarantee that you will be able to recover them without the hard disk booting up in a notebook.

You have crippled us in our research by not identifying your notebook with its product number.

If the notebook would still boot up to Windows it would be a simple task to recover the 25 character key.

[m2igm]

Hi sorry, its takem a while to find it. Thanks for your reply. 

The model is HP Envy 15-as103na and I can't boot it up as it has no power. I've removed the hard disk but it only holds a d and f drive. I'm not sure I can get them from MS as I have the disks, but they cam in an evelope with the key on and I can't find that, although I have it somewhere

[erico]

No worries.

What was the Operating system?

"I can't boot it up as it has no power." That is a bit of a cryptic statement without details.

What no-power troubleshooting steps did you perform before removing the hard disk?

Power adapter issue or no power led or response from pressing the power button?

How are you attempting to access the disk? 

Is it Windows Explorer or have you taken a look at  the DiskPart utility. Disk Management should be helpful.

You are going to have to find the envelope MS Office came in since you are unable to boot up Windows from the notebook's hard disk.

If you were able to boot the hard disk, and this is for the future, you could use a VBS script which provides the MS Office activation key.

Here is the script. This is useful to anyone who has Microsoft Office installed and wants to know the activation keyin order to save it an external backup or document file.

Copy the script into notepad and save it as productkey.vbs on the desktop environment.  While booted into Windows, just click on the productkey.vbs icon and your Microsoft Office key will appear in a dialogue window.

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
MsgBox ConvertToKey(WshShell.RegRead("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DigitalProductId"))

Function ConvertToKey(Key)
Const KeyOffset = 52
i = 28
Chars = "BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789"
Do
Cur = 0
x = 14
Do
Cur = Cur * 256
Cur = Key(x + KeyOffset) + Cur
Key(x + KeyOffset) = (Cur \ 24) And 255
Cur = Cur Mod 24
x = x -1
Loop While x >= 0
i = i -1
KeyOutput = Mid(Chars, Cur + 1, 1) & KeyOutput
If (((29 - i) Mod 6) = 0) And (i <> -1) Then
i = i -1
KeyOutput = "-" & KeyOutput
End If
Loop While i >= 0
ConvertToKey = KeyOutput
End Function