Question : Product Key thrown out! Cannot install windows98. can anyone help?

Ok so those of you who helped me out in formatting my hard drive, I thank you. But now I have an even bigger problem. My step mom threw out all the product keys to windows 98 and SE. I tried using the msbatch.inf from that www.bucks.edu website, I tried looking under the "regedit" command (under safe mode) and I found nothing. Are there any files I can look under for the product key? Or will I have to buy a brand new windows 98 box set? I don't think Microsoft would be able to help me find the product key if I don't have anything but the disks left. Any advice, help, etc., would be greatly appreciated.

Answer : Product Key thrown out! Cannot install windows98. can anyone help?

okay stargazer
you're forcing me to divulge some info to CrazyOne that he will most assuredly purloin     :>)    LMAO

If this works for you, perhaps the point reward will be commesurate to the results.  

Open Notepad and copy this exactly as you see it here.


@echo off
start /w regedit /e key.txt HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
type key.txt|find "ProductKey">mykey.txt
del key.txt


Save it on your desktop as key.bat
close notepad and doubleclick key.bat
It will put a text file on desktop named mykey.txt with your key in it.

Also you can open system.dat in Wordpad and use the search function to look for  ProductKey
system.dat is in the windows folder.

Debugging a windows file for the key may get me trown out of here so hopefully those work for you.
Good luck