Problem with vb6 old software migration to a new PC

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I have a very old VB6 software licensed on an old Win7 pc.

The developer can't be reached, and the PC got corrupted. When the software with license was installed to the new PC, it requests a new license.

Any idea how to solve this?

Any help will be appreciated.

What I have tried:

I tried macrium and vcenter to convert it to vm, but it didn't work.

Posted 17-Sep-23 1:04am

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Updated 19-Sep-23 11:05am

Deeksha Shenoy

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2023-09-17T02:17:00

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There is no way anyone here could answer such a question. We have no idea what the program does, how it does it, or what licencing method it uses.

Posted 17-Sep-23 2:17am

Richard MacCutchan

OriginalGriff · Answer 2 · 2023-09-17T03:02:00

Pretty much you are stuffed.
If you can't contact the original developer you can't get a new licence. If you don't have a record of the original licence and you can't get a new one, you can't install the software, regardless of what it does.

Your only options are buy a new copy that comes with a licence (but if you can't contact the developers that probably not going to work) or restore the original machine from a good backup. You do have backups of mission critical systems, don't you?