question about Windows 98 CD / product key [product key] [freind]
Q: A friend of mine wiped his HDD not realiseing that he lost cd win98 gateway. Now he has his product on the side of his case, but no CD to complete the installation. I told him all he had to do was locate anther copy of Win98 and use his key and it will all work fine. some guy he works with a gateway certifited tech and he says that the CD and the key are coded to each other and sugested that I would not work. So I thought I would ask to find out if I know what Im talking about or Im off base on this one.
Best Answer: First off, you should check to see that these computers meet the recommended system requirements for Windows XP. They may be too old to upgrade. As for what to back up, I believe all your personal documents should have been saved in C:\My Documents on Windows 98 Machines (unless you made your own folders for saving things). If you want to keep all your programs, you'll have to back up C:\Program Files as well. As for if your activation key will work, Microsoft generates them using some sort of elaborate system, I have no idea if it will work or not. As for a external storage, make sure your Windows 98 computers have a USB port, thats what most modern devices use to connect. Then calculate how much space you will need and buy a drive thats slightly higher than that.
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Re:I have built and sold many computers with Win98se and I always load it with the same CD and then put in the keycode from the customers oem disk. It works everytime. If it does not you are probably trying to use a 98 disk and a 98se code or the other way around. The disk has no idea what the keycode is.
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Re:I have also not had a problem loading win 98 on diffrent machines. One of my friends even had a copy that came with a gateway and it came up fine on all machines. And there wasnt even any gateway utilities or anything.
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Re:During the staging of several Win98 SE machines I've sucessfully used the same key on several CDs.
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Re:corky-g, are you sure about that or is it just you have belived that an never tried to do any different? im not trying to insult your intelegence here, we all make assumtions and we cannot always be right, i just have conflicting reports so i feel inclined to ask. assumeing you are positive what you said is fact, please tell me if your copys of windows were retail box, oem on an standard windows cd, or oem on a special oem cd such as one from gateway?
guy, ya thats what i understand too. hes has the orignal win98, i never even tried an se disk as i just figured that woundn't work. the point is i think that it is worth the effort to try to track down a disk but he insists this gateway certifired guy he works for knows what he is talking about and wont even try.
personaly i think he is just being stubrend because cant seem to rap his head around why software piracy is bad and seems to be impling that he wants a copy of my xp or me that i run on my two rigs. granted he isnt going to get it and his arrogence on the issue has me rather uninclined to help him at all but i would still like to know if i did find it in my heart to track a win98 cd install from, would it work with his product key that came with his gateway or does his "gateway certified" tech realy know what his is talking about? i mean now offence to any gatway techs out there but i have come in contact with many "certified" people in their day that didnt have a clue.
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Re:thats odd but mabey it is because of the way the key is written it only works with the cd it came from. I have used one cdkey on several different cd's and vice-versa. You legally own a licenced product of win98 just go and download it from somewhere are try you cdkey
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Re:wierd, I would ahve thought that any OEM win98 CD would work. Make sure that if your key is for SE you use an SE key. I can't imagine that the discs are unique – that would cost far too much to procude.
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Re:The Gateway tech is right – I have never been able to use any but the "right" CD with it's key. I have 3 systems – and I got 3 separate Win98 packages when it came ut – and each CD will only work with its own key number. They are not interchangeable except for non-install CAB references.
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