Product key help

Lost the envelop that had the product key for my win95 OSR2. My hard drive crashed and now I
cannot reload the OS. Is there anyway that I can get the product key off the CD by a search, or
is there some program that would allow me to get it off my CD?
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Nicholas

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"nicholas" <> wrote in message
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> Lost the envelop that had the product key for my win95 OSR2. My hard drive
> crashed and now I cannot reload the OS. Is there anyway that I can get the
> product key off the CD by a search, or is there some program that would
> allow me to get it off my CD?

no, not from the cd, but if you still have your original registry files
(user.dat and system.dat) intact on the drive, they can be opened in a
DOS-based text editor from a boot-disk, and the product key is contained
therein, amongst all the registry keys IIRC. You can search for the word
"product" and you should run across it. Plato should be able to recall which
file had the key. It's been while since I saw him post that tip.

Thor wrote:
>
> > Lost the envelop that had the product key for my win95 OSR2. My hard drive
> > crashed and now I cannot reload the OS. Is there anyway that I can get the
> > product key off the CD by a search, or is there some program that would
> > allow me to get it off my CD?

Depends what he means by his hard drive crashing. If he can at least
boot to safe mode than all you do is search for ProductKey in the
registry.

If system.1st, if I recally correctly, is in the root directory then its
there also can seach for it using just a text editor.

I have a free download called diag but as I recall it's for 98 dont know
if it works in 95 all it does, while in dos, is search the registry, if
it exists, for the key.

no, not from the cd, but if you still have your original registry files
> (user.dat and system.dat) intact on the drive, they can be opened in a
> DOS-based text editor from a boot-disk, and the product key is contained
> therein, amongst all the registry keys IIRC. You can search for the word
> "product" and you should run across it. Plato should be able to recall which
> file had the key. It's been while since I saw him post that tip.

Plato wrote:
> Thor wrote:
>
>>>Lost the envelop that had the product key for my win95 OSR2. My hard drive
>>>crashed and now I cannot reload the OS. Is there anyway that I can get the
>>>product key off the CD by a search, or is there some program that would
>>>allow me to get it off my CD?
>
>
> Depends what he means by his hard drive crashing. If he can at least
> boot to safe mode than all you do is search for ProductKey in the
> registry.
>
> If system.1st, if I recally correctly, is in the root directory then its
> there also can seach for it using just a text editor.
>
> I have a free download called diag but as I recall it's for 98 dont know
> if it works in 95 all it does, while in dos, is search the registry, if
> it exists, for the key.
>
> no, not from the cd, but if you still have your original registry files
>
>>(user.dat and system.dat) intact on the drive, they can be opened in a
>>DOS-based text editor from a boot-disk, and the product key is contained
>>therein, amongst all the registry keys IIRC. You can search for the word
>>"product" and you should run across it. Plato should be able to recall which
>>file had the key. It's been while since I saw him post that tip.
>
>
Thanks for all your replies, but after my HD crashed, I was foolish enough to format the drive,
knowing I had the Cd, but completely forgot about the product key.
Guess I am out of luck.

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Nicholas

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Windows 95 (build 490) 100-1208613
Windows 95 Build 950 r2 8757215850
Windows 95 - Build 950 rev. R6 (final) CD-key: 875-7215850
100-1208613
757-2573155
727-0208693
767-0602634
747-1012622
105-7756325
988-0529930
511-1103646
889-9850114
975-4769754
975-4769754
040-2260882
875-7215850
100-1208613
757-2573155
Windows 95 Plus 040-0073635
040-0081471
040-0081586



Windows 95 Full Version 15795-OEM-0001355-07757
Windows 95 OEM CD-Rom 24995-OEM-0004361-59221
19996-OEM-0013485-72574
Windows 95 OEM Version 12095-OEM-0004226-12233
15795-OEM-0001355-07757
16595-OEM-0001695-96524
Windows 95 Full 15795-OEM-0001
Windows 95B 27497-OEM-0025347-80387




Try these
30997-0027273-74697
36599-OEM-000917429179
10001 - OEM - 0000007 - 10001
You can try making up a product ID! The secret is that when you add
up all the digits in the second numeric field, the total must be an
even multiple of seven.

Examples:

17177-OEM-1616167-16167
10597-OEM-0021407-56804
30397-OEM-0026382-89293
12697-OEM-0022316-53361
36599-OEM-0009174-29179


"nicholas" <> wrote in message
news:0GG8d.120139$ ...
> Lost the envelop that had the product key for my win95 OSR2. My hard drive
crashed and now I
> cannot reload the OS. Is there anyway that I can get the product key off
the CD by a search, or
> is there some program that would allow me to get it off my CD?
> --
> Nicholas
>
> Please reply to this newsgroup