Yeah I know the product code isn't on the cd but it is recorded somewhere on the hard drive that XP is installed on. My 40 GB drive still has all its info still on it and somewhere in that is the product code. It has to be found and decoded and all the product code finders that I have found aren't able to pull that code from an external drive, only the main operating system. Since I don't have the original computer that the hard drive came from, motherboard died along with most of the rest of the computer, I can't set up the hard drive as the main operating system to pull off the product code. I don't have the original case with the product code, yeah I screwed up, but at the time I was worried about the info on the drive and didn't know how important the product sticker would be if I wanted to use the hard drive again. So I'm just trying to find a legal way to pull off my product code on a OS I paid for. I realize that I have other XP systems with valid codes but using those would not be legal. If nothing else I will install 98 on it and wipe the original 4 GB hard drive so I'm not double installed. I can always use the 4 GB as an external minus the OS.