[No Windows Product Key; files were deleted on HDD]
Monday, August 18, 2008 at 11:52 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3588 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.
||
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.
- Written in response to:
- re: Key missing (Keith Stanier: Monday, August 18, 2008 at 9:09 am)
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