The research center at my uni has an old Colinbus LABOFLEX-60/HF CNC that has been sitting for a while. A small team (which I’m part) has been put to work to get the machine up and running. We currently have an old PC (pentiun 4, ddr era, winXP) which has all the necesary software to convert gerber files to the proprietary file (ColiLiner) to be later loaded by the software that communicates with the machine (ColiDrive).
The thing is that the machine is full of crap, and slowly dying (we had to change some capacitors here and there in order to make the machine boot). The idea would be to get all the program licences, and change the current PC for a “less older” one.
I’ve found all the installers, but only the license for the ColiLiner program is missing. In the (now dead) website, you can find all installers. There is also an activation guide where you can see that it requires the support center to send you back the activation licence. I’ve tried to communicate with them via email, but the domain does not appear to exist anymore.
Looking at the original installation, I noticed that there where some interesting files that I thought could have the licence. I tried installing the program on the new machine, and pasting those files over, but had no success.
I would like to know if is there any way of getting the licence out of the machine to be copied to the new one. I’m no expert at Windows, even less at XP, so I also don’t really know where programs store “sensitive data”. If copying the licence or program data is not an option, is it possible to bypass the program licence?
