No. CDs are all the same, they aren't attached to the CD-Key, which means you can use any CD-Key on any CD. So, if the game is uninstalled and you lost the CD-Key, you either buy the game again or get a replacement from Blizzard, which costs 10$. Check here
Thanks for answering my question. I have a small followup qustion from your answer. So if all the CDs are the same and not associated with any particular CD-key, what makes the installation of the program keycode specific? Or if it isn't keycode specific, what keeps people from entering random 16-digit codes until it lets them install the program?
The game has an algorithm (think of it like a series of math equations that it keeps verifying the key against) and all valid keys are designed to match the algorithm.
Then Battle.net maintains an actual list of keys that have been issued to copies of the game that get shipped. (They update the list each time they release a new batch to the distributor, I guess.)
There are programs "out there" that can generated cd keys that will let you install the game. They figured out how to match the algorithm.
But these "generated" keys almost never work on battle.net because they aren't on the list. The mathematical odds of generating a key that happens to be on the list is very small. Only a few million copies of the game have been sold (maybe) but this is nowhere near the total number of possible keys.
Thank you again for the quick response. I was just entering in random codes to try to install my game as I can read all the CD-key digits except for about 4 or 5 in the middle. Since the program is actually an equation that checks the code, it wouldn't have done me any good to be able to install it with an incorrect code.
As a final question about this subject, I was wondering if it is possible to get my LoD CD-key from my old battle.net character save files on my hard drive that were not erased when I originally uninstalled the game from my computer. Isn't there anything in those files that might give me a hint to the CD-key, as they must have been associated with my battle.net account?
Again, this has been a really great forum and thank you all for your help.
Nope, sorry. The CD-Key is stored in one of the .mpq (not sure which one), which are large archives of the game's data files. Unless they are still around, you are out of luck for recovering your CD-Key.
I don't think I'm dealing with quite the same pressures though, at the very least its a significantly smaller system. For the time being I'm just going to put together a quick scrubby box though and hope it works good enough to not make my house toxic
I do know this - xenforo dropped the ball by not keeping the vbulletin reputation comments as a feature. The loss of the Reputation comments data when we switched to Xenforo really was the death knell for the site when it came to all the users that left. I know I missed it so much and I got way less interested in the site when that feature was gone and I run the site.