If you can boot the system then you can recover the Product Key from the
registry using a program such as Belarc Adviser or AIDA32
(http://www.aumha.org/downloads/aida32.zip) or by using Regedit and noting
the data for the value ProductKey found at:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

If you can't boot into Windows but your hard disk hasn't been formatted
then
you can try recovering the Product Key as follows:
a) Boot to DOS using a Boot Floppy and select 4) Minimal Boot
b) At the A:\> prompt, type the following with a return after each line.
The
spaces are important.

c:
cd  windows
attrib  -s  -h  system.dat
edit  system.dat

Use Search | Find to find 'ProductKey'
The key used to install Windows should be to the immediate right of the
string ProductKey and of the form XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

Why are you posting to a Win ME group if the concern is Win98?

If Win98 is still running, get it from the Registry with Regedit.exe
The key is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
The value is ProductKey

As the above is unlikely to help if you can't get into Windows, try
this from a DOS boot:

C:\Windows\Command\Find /I "ProductKey" C:\Windows\System.dat

Note that the above command doesn't work on every Win98 installation.
It used to work for me but doesn't know but the ProductKey should be
in two files and you should be able to search either one, even if you
have to transfer one to another machine.
The other file is C:\System.1st and it won't be as big as System.dat

...Alan

Ok The gal that owns this comp had found the product key but it turned out
that it was the wrong one even though the computer took it.  The product key
was for another computer that she had and since then she has found the
correct product key.  So I need to get back in there and edit it some how
but I am unsure of how I do that.  I've heard in how to do it before with my
search for finding the product key but I can't find the info any longer.
Does anyone here know how to do it?  I don't want to send the computer home
with her untill this has been taken care of yet.  I don't know if she/ or I
can get in trouble for the wrong product key being in there even if the key
was from another computer that she no longer has.

Thanks for any help.  I have posted on the 98 windows servers but nothing
has come back yet for help yet so I am posting here for the fact that there
was such a fast response before.
Gidget

If you can boot the system then you can recover the Product Key from the
registry using a program such as Belarc Adviser or AIDA32
(http://www.aumha.org/downloads/aida32.zip) or by using Regedit and noting
the data for the value ProductKey found at:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

If you can't boot into Windows but your hard disk hasn't been formatted
then
you can try recovering the Product Key as follows:
a) Boot to DOS using a Boot Floppy and select 4) Minimal Boot
b) At the A:\> prompt, type the following with a return after each line.
The
spaces are important.

c:
cd  windows
attrib  -s  -h  system.dat
edit  system.dat

Use Search | Find to find 'ProductKey'
The key used to install Windows should be to the immediate right of the
string ProductKey and of the form XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX