Mystery Win. 98 Disk

I have two Dell computers that both came preinstalled with
Win98. I now need to reformat one of them, but I can only
find one CD and I don't know which one it is. I have a
product key for both computers.

I saw this in another post:

"US customers can contact Microsoft at: 1 800 642-7676.
They will issue
retail and OEM product keys after verifying data located
on the W98 CD."

Is that my best bet? I just want to make sure it's the
right CD before I reformat.

TIA

~JR

From: "JR"
Date: 06/01/2004 4:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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I have two Dell computers that both came preinstalled with
Win98. I now need to reformat one of them, but I can only
find one CD and I don't know which one it is. I have a
product key for both computers.

I saw this in another post:

"US customers can contact Microsoft at: 1 800 642-7676.
They will issue
retail and OEM product keys after verifying data located
on the W98 CD."

Is that my best bet? I just want to make sure it's the
right CD before I reformat.

TIA

~JR


Did you try calling Dell ????? That would be my first step.

Did you try calling Dell ????? That would be my first
step.

I'm still waiting to hear back from someone there who has
a clue. I understand the Piracy implications, but there
has to be some way of checking a CD/Key match *before* I
uninstall. Any thoughts?

Thx again.

~JR

The problem is that the CD might contain the wrong drivers for the machine
you intend to load it to. I suspect either Product Key will work with the
CD. To find out what key is in the problem computer, open regedit.exe to
this key and then look for ProductKey in the right pane:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion


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Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

"JR" wrote in message
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I have two Dell computers that both came preinstalled with
Win98. I now need to reformat one of them, but I can only
find one CD and I don't know which one it is. I have a
product key for both computers.

I saw this in another post:

"US customers can contact Microsoft at: 1 800 642-7676.
They will issue
retail and OEM product keys after verifying data located
on the W98 CD."

Is that my best bet? I just want to make sure it's the
right CD before I reformat.

TIA

~JR

Dell is the only way to go.

"JR" wrote in message
...
I have two Dell computers that both came preinstalled with
Win98. I now need to reformat one of them, but I can only
find one CD and I don't know which one it is. I have a
product key for both computers.

I saw this in another post:

"US customers can contact Microsoft at: 1 800 642-7676.
They will issue
retail and OEM product keys after verifying data located
on the W98 CD."

Is that my best bet? I just want to make sure it's the
right CD before I reformat.

TIA

~JR