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Key missing
Monday, August 18, 2008 at 8:53 am
Posted by Albanco
(1 messages posted)
Multiple critical files were deleted & now the production key prompt appears. The
blank CD came with no key on it as it was loaned. I cannot do a reg restore as the
message appears regardless. How do I get pass this or just get my data of the OS
for good?
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re: Key missing
Monday, August 18, 2008 at 9:09 am
Posted by Keith Stanier
(1655 messages posted)
Albanco wrote:
|Multiple critical files were deleted & now the production key prompt appears. The
|blank CD came with no key on it as it was loaned. I cannot do a reg restore as the
|message appears regardless. How do I get pass this or just get my data of the OS
|for good?
Are you talking about the product key for Windows 98?
Do a web search there are hundreds out there. Or download Magical
Jelly Bean Keyfinder v2.0.1
that will tell you your product key, but write it down safely somewhere.
As for recovering your deleted files then I recommend Recuva
its an excellent free tool.
As for getting data of your hard drive there is always DOS and floppy disks. But
if the files are to big the use Pkzip.exe. It won't remember long file names but
as least you will have the files.
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[No Windows Product Key; files were deleted on HDD]
Monday, August 18, 2008 at 11:52 am
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
||Multiple critical files were deleted
||Albanco
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I suggest that you implement a backup strategy RIGHT NOW.
USB thumbdrives are under $7/GB.
I also suggest that you learn how to use a Windoze computer
in a way so that it isn't easily infected:
cache of http://techguylabs.com/radio/ShowNotes/Show327#toc3
(The "limited user" stuff cannot be applied to Windoze 98, making that OS
unsuitable for people who don't want to become malware specialists.
A good alternative is Linux. See "gratis", below.)
Linux (when used properly) isn't subject to these infections either.
cache of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_computer_viruses
If you are going to stick with Micro$oft, picking up a book on Windows 98
and learning how to use "Add/Remove Programs" seems apt as well.
|I recommend [recuva.com].
| Keith Stanier
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I recommend that folks steer clear of
"coders" who can't put together a decent HTML page:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.recuva.com/
There are lots of these "undelete utilities" out there:
cache of
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2003/PL2003FILEUTILITIES.htm#UndeleteTool
I like this guy:
cache of http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html
++Brian.Kato
cache of http://www.aumha.org/a/recover.php
++Brian.Kato
I recommend that you read the aumha page BEFORE you do anything else.
(If you wrote stuff to the drive PRIOR to recovering data--e.g. installed an OS,
there is a chance everything is GONE.)
||now the production key prompt appears.
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Linux (which is gratis) doesn't make you jump thru hoops like Micro$oft does.
(With Linux, you'll never see the "Product Key" nonsense
nor the "Product Activation" nonsense
nor the "Windows Genuine (Dis)Advantage nonsense.)
||blank CD came with no key on it as it was loaned.
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You understand you are breaking the law. Right?
In addition to being gratis, Linux is also LIBRE.
Keith covered the "Windoze product key" stuff pretty well
--though if you reinstalled Windoze BEFORE you knew what you were doing,
a key recovery utility is useless.
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re: [No Windows Product Key; files were deleted on HDD]
Monday, August 18, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Posted by Keith Stanier
(1655 messages posted)
gewg_ wrote:
|I recommend [recuva.com].
| Keith Stanier
|I recommend that folks steer clear of
|"coders" who can't put together a decent HTML page:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.recuva.com/
And I still recommend Recuva. That link doesn't doesn't say anything bad about Recuva
thats just HTML coding and Recuva doesn't use HTML.
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re: [No Windows Product Key; files were deleted on HDD]
Monday, August 18, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
|||I recommend [recuva.com].
||| Keith Stanier
||I recommend that folks steer clear of
||"coders" who can't put together a decent HTML page:
||http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.recuva.com/
|| gewg_
|That link doesn't doesn't say anything bad about Recuva
|thats just HTML coding and Recuva doesn't use HTML.
| Keith Stanier
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It says that they have a sign on their front door that says "We do sloppy work".
|And I still recommend Recuva.
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From their page:
"Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility"
So, you're saying that INSTALLING a utility
on a HDD that you're trying to recover data from is a Good Thing(tm).
Seems pretty silly to me.
In the case of a borked Windoze OS, **very** silly.
OTOH, Brian Kato's app will run from a floppy.
It doesn't need Windoze and it doesn't need to be installed to the HDD.
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re: Key missing
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 7:40 am
Posted by Alan Masterman
(462 messages posted)
Of course, if things get really desperate, you could consider buying a legal copy
of Win98SE from eBay or your local auction rooms. I don't know what it's worth these
days. Probably $US20 or even less.
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re: [No Windows Product Key; files were deleted on HDD]
Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Posted by Keith Stanier
(1655 messages posted)
gewg_ wrote:
|I recommend that folks steer clear of
|"coders" who can't put together a decent HTML page:
|http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.recuva.com/
Well Recuva passed your link now gewg.
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re: [No Windows Product Key; files were deleted on HDD]
Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
||I recommend that folks steer clear of
||"coders" who can't put together a decent HTML page:
||http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.recuva.com/
|| gewg_
|Well Recuva passed your link now gewg.
| Keith Stanier
Excellent! Do you suppose they read this forum? 8-)
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re: [No Windows Product Key; files were deleted on HDD]
Friday, August 22, 2008 at 9:58 am
Posted by Keith Stanier
(1655 messages posted)
gewg_ wrote:
|Excellent! Do you suppose they read this forum? 8-)
They do after I posted your reply on their forum.
Actually I posted the Microsoft site in that site and it came back with 177 errors
and 40 warnings so if they can't get it right who can.
So I would't knock their software for that minor detail.
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re: [No Windows Product Key; files were deleted on HDD]
Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
|Actually I posted the Microsoft site in that site
| Keith Stanier
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I guess you mean "I tried to get microsoft.com to validate".
"That site" (w3c.org) is The WorldWide Web Consortium.
Those are the folks who **write** the HTML specification (and CSS, and XHTML,...).
They are the ultimate arbiter of what *IS* proper HTML and what *ISN'T*.
|and it came back with 177 errors and 40 warnings
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No surprise to me. Microsoft's site looks like crap on non-M$ browsers.
|so if they can't get it right who can.
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Pffft. You M$ fanbois are precious.
Microsoft almost MISSED the whole *Internet* thing.
Anyone who knows anything about M$
knows they almost shipped Win95 without a browser.
Since then, they've been doing everything they can to marginalize the Internet.
cache of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish#Origin
Notice where it says
"Microsoft's strategy toward Netscape, Java, and the Internet".
|So I would't knock their software for that minor detail.
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Code is code.
Like I said: A company's Web page is their front door with a sign on it.
If a company puts up improperly-coded Web pages,
the sign says "We don't know much about generating proper code".
**VALIDATION AGAINST THE STANDARD** IS PART OF THE CODING PROCESS.
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