Clone hard drive and/or get Licenses key from it.

The HD has almost everything on it.

Sounds like the disk is a goner if you do not anything.
Windows will not see the Linux Partitions.

Did you try DiskInternals Linux Reader?

Will it boot back up if you re-install to the BCM?

If so then do a backup and get the code from there.

I have my own ways to get it too.



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The hard drive used by BCM50 is a completely standard SATA hard drive with 11 or 12 Linux partitions on it. Pretty much any Linux OS should recognize the drive, see the partitions and allow them to be mounted. The file with the keys is on one of the partitions.

As curly suggested, if the BCM50 is alive, it is much easier to make a backup, retrieve the backup from the system and extract the license file from the backup.

If the BCM is either release 5 or release 6, you don't have to do that at all. These releases store the license file also on an internal storage device on the mainboard. If you install a new (or different) hard drive without the correct license file, the file gets restored from the internal storage device. In other words, the most recent license file is kept by the release 5 and 6 software on the mainboard - that way you don't have to ever worry about losing it if the hard drive goes bad.