HELP - major mess up - sys restore - lost win 98 product code!

[Guest TravelinGal]

Inserted the disk to do a sys restore and totally forgot I'd need the product

code from Win98. I have no clue where it is! Hubby and I have looked

EVERYWHERE and can't find it! (found an old Win95 book/code, but obviously

that is of no help!)

 

Are we totally hosed? Is there any (free/very low cost) way to save this cpu?

[Guest MEB]

Re: HELP - major mess up - sys restore - lost win 98 product code!

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion]

"ProductKey"="{your code}"

 

However, if you have started the install/restore, it may have been

overwritten.

 

This may work to locate one still available:

----

If you can't boot Win98, but haven't formatted the system drive, then

boot with a startup floppy or to a command prompt and run either of these:

 

C:\Windows\command\Find /I "ProductKey" c:\windows\system.dat

 

C:\Windows\command\Find /I "ProductKey" c:\system.1st

 

Posted previously by Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }

and several others

 

--

MEB http://peoplescounsel.orgfree.com

--

_________

 

"TravelinGal" <TravelinGal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:4D9645F1-F0AF-4ECF-816E-79141EC674D7@microsoft.com...

| Inserted the disk to do a sys restore and totally forgot I'd need the

product

| code from Win98. I have no clue where it is! Hubby and I have looked

| EVERYWHERE and can't find it! (found an old Win95 book/code, but

obviously

| that is of no help!)

|

| Are we totally hosed? Is there any (free/very low cost) way to save this

cpu?

[Guest MEB]

Re: HELP - major mess up - sys restore - lost win 98 product code!

 

Oh, you might also find it in one of the backed up regs in the hidden

SYSBCKUP folder unless its been wiped [rb00*.cab].

 

--

MEB http://peoplescounsel.orgfree.com

--

_________

 

"MEB" <meb@not here@hotmail.com> wrote in message

news:%23QRWaSxtIHA.1872@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

| [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion]

| "ProductKey"="{your code}"

|

| However, if you have started the install/restore, it may have been

| overwritten.

|

| This may work to locate one still available:

| ----

| If you can't boot Win98, but haven't formatted the system drive, then

| boot with a startup floppy or to a command prompt and run either of these:

|

| C:\Windows\command\Find /I "ProductKey" c:\windows\system.dat

|

| C:\Windows\command\Find /I "ProductKey" c:\system.1st

|

| Posted previously by Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }

| and several others

|

| --

| MEB http://peoplescounsel.orgfree.com

| --

| _________

|

| "TravelinGal" <TravelinGal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

| news:4D9645F1-F0AF-4ECF-816E-79141EC674D7@microsoft.com...

| | Inserted the disk to do a sys restore and totally forgot I'd need the

| product

| | code from Win98. I have no clue where it is! Hubby and I have looked

| | EVERYWHERE and can't find it! (found an old Win95 book/code, but

| obviously

| | that is of no help!)

| |

| | Are we totally hosed? Is there any (free/very low cost) way to save

this

| cpu?

|

|

[Guest TravelinGal]

Re: HELP - major mess up - sys restore - lost win 98 product code!

 

Thanks - I'll try that tomorrow!

[Guest Don Phillipson]

Re: HELP - major mess up - sys restore - lost win 98 product code!

 

"TravelinGal" <TravelinGal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:4D9645F1-F0AF-4ECF-816E-79141EC674D7@microsoft.com...

> Inserted the disk to do a sys restore and totally forgot I'd need the

product

> code from Win98. I have no clue where it is! Hubby and I have looked

> EVERYWHERE and can't find it! (found an old Win95 book/code, but

obviously

> that is of no help!)

>

> Are we totally hosed? Is there any (free/very low cost) way to save this

cpu?

 

Reading homework (and check lists of what you need beforehand) at

http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/w98_restore.html

 

--

Don Phillipson

Carlsbad Springs

(Ottawa, Canada)

[Guest TravelinGal]

RE: HELP - major mess up - sys restore - lost win 98 product code!

 

Got it working - thanks!

 

Don - Don't worry... I won't forget this! I'll never sys restore without my

Win Product Code again!

[Guest thanatoid]

Re: HELP - major mess up - sys restore - lost win 98 product code!

 

=?Utf-8?B?VHJhdmVsaW5HYWw=?=

<TravelinGal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in

news:4D9645F1-F0AF-4ECF-816E-79141EC674D7@microsoft.com:

> Inserted the disk to do a sys restore and totally forgot

> I'd need the product code from Win98. I have no clue where

> it is! Hubby and I have looked EVERYWHERE and can't find

> it! (found an old Win95 book/code, but obviously that is

> of no help!)

>

> Are we totally hosed? Is there any (free/very low cost)

> way to save this cpu?

 

Sigh...

 

Google...

 

"Win98 product code"

 

385,000 hits.

 

Here's one URL from the /first/ page which lists several codes

which should all work:

 

http://www.pcuser.com.au/pcuser/hs2.nsf/lookup+1/7576E49C239CD4D

7CA257078001EEB68

 

If /none/ of the 4 or 5 on that page work (VERY unlikely), there

are 384,999 other links to try... :-)

 

 

 

--

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but

to be overcome--to be got over.

 

- Arthur Schopenhauer