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by niktone 1 view

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I have several old computers from a recycling team i am part of. we rebuild the computers and donate them. we have a bunch of computers that have all the same parts so we wanna use ghost to clone one and deploy the copies to all the others to make it easier for us but one question we are using the cd keys on the cases their windows 98 keys and they work with the disks we have but since we wanna clone it all the computer would have the same key. how can i change the key in each computer without actually installing windows 98 individually on each system

Thanks In advance,
Nick

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by oh smeg

The Product Key is tied tot eh Install Disc with this version of Windows so you would have to use different Products from the same Batch to use 1 Install Disc and clone.

I do think that the Windows 98 OPK installer is still available as you could use that and then clone the image but even then Product Keys that do not suit that Install Disc will not work.

You can try Key Finder available here that may work but it just as well may not.

http://magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/

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by rob miners

Before you clone the image, open regedit, highlight and delete the following keys from the right hand pane:

Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

ProductID
ProductKey

Take an image and test it as it will ask for the Product Key. I can't guarantee that it will except different keys though.

Have you considerd using a Linux alternative. It may be time to wipe the Hard Drives for a fresh start with an alternative and free Operating System.

Darik's Boot and Nuke.
http://dban.sourceforge.net/

Autonuke should do it by running it at least 3 times.

Recreate your Partitions using PCLinuxOS and you should be good to go.
http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?option=com_ionfiles&Itemid=28

Jaqui's Video on how to install it should have you up and running in no time.
http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=1950000&fromSeriesID=195

More Help:

Linux command line terminology - 2.3
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/shell.html

by niktone

I tested The keys an i know they work with the CD. the only thing is it took about 3 months to get 1 up and running that's why we were going to use ghost i will try what you guys said though thanks

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