yes- I have my keys in MANY places - but he is 21. hahahaa
he thought saving it as a file was good enough on his computer.
Basically what we did was create a bootable disk - and boot the computer from that and then get inside the hard drive.
but - there were so many errors and hardware failures along the way - it took 8 hours.
then when we finally got inside - freaking Microsoft made us put in some 48 digit key or something??? that we NEVER knew we had
we had to log onto his account that he DIDN'T even know he created once - and freaking there it was!!!!
then we get INTO windows - and there are all his files - EXCEPT his file for his keys!!!!!!!
we found it in some folder that we never used - and never created... it was insanity and i'm telling you - God just allowed us to unlock it and recover those keys. Without that? i was literally 60 seconds from just giving up.
Thank you so much to Penderis who never stopped fighting for it for us - oh my gosh.
we are planning something nice for him hahahahaha believe me! LOL