If your Win98 can boot to windows, your can use the "nirsoft produkey" to locate your Win98 Keys located here
If not, do a clean install with this KEY:
HQ6K2-QPC42-3HWDM-BF4KJ-W4XWJ
ProduKey v1.42 - Nirsoft - (just click on the program)
Supported Products List
"Microsoft Windows 98/ME"
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows NT
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows 7 (Works only for some of the Windows 7 versions, see the known problems section)
Microsoft Office 2000 (Only ProductID is displayed)
Microsoft Office 2003
Microsoft Office 2007
Microsoft Office 2010
Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Microsoft Exchange Server 2000
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
You can try these keys 'cos you don't know which version is your Win98
KEYS:-
Win 98 Upgrade
CCW67-GWQY3-9TG6G-3P7YP-728JX
GFCW4-XFP63-D622W-XVX6J-9H8BF
Windows 98 SE OEM
M4G3G-77CGM-9FY8T-PMWBC-JJYDM
CMT3F-GYCQP-BP29T-TJQY6-WHBMW
Win98 Retail
K4HVD-Q9TJ9-6CRX9-C9G68-RQ2D3
W7XTC-2YWFB-K6BPT-GMHMV-B6FDY
Win98
HGBRM-RBK3V-M9FXV-YCXDK-V38J4
DTXM2-YVDH9-JHYV2-MPCJH-CCRFH
Win98 OEM
TBXVP-MB6YG-MH8W4-VXGW2-QYB9W
HMTWJ-VPPWP-9BXP8-WD73Y-GGT6M
In your case most probably you have to do a clean install for Win98.
Minimum Hardware Requirements to Install Windows 98
The minimum hardware requirements include:
486DX 66-MHz or faster processor (Pentium recommended)
16 megabytes (MB) of memory (24 MB recommended)
195 MB of free hard disk space (the required space may vary from 120 MB to 295 MB, depending on your computer's configuration and the options you choose to install)
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
3.5-inch high-density floppy disk drive
Video adapter and monitor that support VGA or higher resolution
Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device
How to install 98 Guides
http://www.windows98.windowsreinstall.co... 98 SE INSTALL GUIDES
http://www.windowsreinstall.com/win98/in...
http://www.bestpricecomputers.ltd.uk/fre...
Hope it helps.
No obligations, you are welcome.
This is a site that you will be able to help you with your laptop ThinkPad 390E @ http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:3...
But you have to do some "soul searching here", how to retrieve the utility you needed for your "antique". {No offence :-) } intended.
Regards and all the best!!!
yaoyang you need to stop posting cracks, keygens and illegal CD Keys.
This is against Fixya policy.
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It will not run windows because it stops at the screen asking for the serial number.
Your link to nirsoft doesn't seem to mention Windows 98, and I am not quite clear on how I could use the utility if it covered Windows 98. Please advise.
I have a Windows startup disk that runs off the old floppy. IT DOESN'T SEEM TO restart Windows but gives me a DOS screen. It loads "diagnostic tools" that don't seem to go anywhere and then stops.
Thanks for the info, In the end I used your key to get started. It was accepted.
Previously I had bought a Windows 98 SE upgrade CD which I was unable to use because of all the Windows Update files that stuffed the drive. That was why I had done the drive recovery in the first place.
Today, after using your key to start Windows I was able to install the SE upgrade and now have the new product key on the system. So, thanks for your help.
As a follow-up:
I re-installed much of the software that I had on the computer before, and recovered files from the D partition on this IBM ThinkPad that I had bought new in 1999. I used the internet once during that time and may have picked up something. Here are some quirks that may be unrelated, that I cannot seem to solve.
1. Everytime Windows98SE starts the screen says that windows is starting for the first time. That "first time" bit never goes away.
2. Part of my ThinkPad Configuration Utlility seems to have been destroyed as it cannot give me any information on battery operation or power management.
a) Do you know where to find that utility file for the 390E now that IBM no longer supports any of these computers?
b) Do you know where one can buy the last lithium ion battery that IBM offered for the 390E?
3. Also, after start-up, or at the end of it, a DOS window pops up that refers to acs.exe: "C:\windows\System> C:\windows\system\acs.exe -h". I have never seen this before, don't know what it does and have to close the window manually.
Any ideas for these problems?
Thanks.
T. Baxter
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