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look around the outside of the server, there's &quot;supposed&quot; to be a license key stuck to it somewhere in plain sight.<br />
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look at the file contents of the cd you're using, there should be a folder called i386. &nbsp;inside that folder should be unattended.txt<br />
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read that text file, there should be generic product keys in there you can use to install with. &nbsp;they won't activate of course, but you can use the change product key function to switch it back to your own key<br />

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look around the outside of the server, there's "supposed" to be a license key stuck to it somewhere in plain sight.

look at the file contents of the cd you're using, there should be a folder called i386.  inside that folder should be unattended.txt

read that text file, there should be generic product keys in there you can use to install with.  they won't activate of course, but you can use the change product key function to switch it back to your own key


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(which buys you 15-30 days to find it)<br />

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I have been having some issues with our Server 2003 box, so I was going to try to just do a OS repair, but the repair is asking for the CD key, which I do not have, as the box was purchased before I came on, and no one knows where it is. &nbsp;So now I am stuck in the install. &nbsp;I HAVE to get out of this and back to windows before morning. &nbsp;Please any help or suggestions!
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I have been having some issues with our Server 2003 box, so I was going to try to just do a OS repair, but the repair is asking for the CD key, which I do not have, as the box was purchased before I came on, and no one knows where it is.  So now I am stuck in the install.  I HAVE to get out of this and back to windows before morning.  Please any help or suggestions!

How to cancel Server 2003 Repair Install!! URGENT!!!

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).