Win98 boot disk

[rtrottie]

can i use my Win98 boot disk,on a computer
that i am going to use Win95 on?Also,where can find my key-code number on a machine that
is already running,and are there any Win95
boot disk that have cd-rom support?

thanks

[lysergic]

Yes you can use your 98 bootdisk on a 95 machine. Just do not use it to format or sys the drive as the command.com version is incoorect. But to load a cdrom driver in dos for a reinstall of 95 it works great. Much better then the 95 bootdisk which had cdrom support. They just did not work all that well.

To find the product key in either 95 or 98 boot to a command prompt and change to the windows directory. Then type 'edit system.dat' and do a search for 'productkey'. You could also download a great little util called 9xdiag from http://62nds.co.nz/cgi-bin/x/e2110.html?dFXch

that will go and get the number for you. Will also let you know some other stuff like where windows was last installed from and any screen saver passwords that may be on the system.

[This message has been edited by lysergic (edited April 17, 2000).]

[skut]

you can format a win95 machine w/ a win98 boot disk..ya just can sys it ;D

[Phil, 62NDS]

the diag utility mentioned by lysergic is the easiest way... it'll tell you what's wrong with windows when Windows won't start up.

See http://www.62nds.co.nz/techrepublic for details.