dos help

[7bronco]

I had some work done on my computer a year ago at a major Comp store in the USA, they had to reinstall Win95b, using their copy. Now my system crashes during IE55 upgrade, and will not boot. I tried to overlay reinstall Win95 with my copy, but the key code for my copy does not work. i was told at the store that the code is listed in the system.dat file, but i cannot open this file with my sys disk because it says I am out of far memory. Can I tweak config file to eliminate this problem.

[zzzreyes]

that is an odd problem...
but I will suggest to,,, hmmm... actually the best suggestion would be wait till OUtpatiEnts takes a look at the post...
he is Da Dos Wiz-r

[NDC]

I think the best thing to do would be to try putting that Win95 CD in another system that has Window and open the DAT file with any text editor. You will get that "Out Of Memory" message in DOS beacuse the size of the DAT file is so large.

Or I think you can use the serial number from another Win95 CD. That should work as well as I remember. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by NDC (edited 09-11-2000).]

[7bronco]

I tried my key code on my version, and it didn't work, Also I can't take the system.dat file off my computer because it is larger than a floppy. The file is nearly 5 meg.

[NDC]

don't you have the Win95 CD???

[7bronco]

yes i do have my copy of the win95b, but when I enter my key code, the install program says it is not valid. I think the problem is that since I want to overlay the installation, the install program is checking the installed key in the OEM section of the system.dat file(which I do not know) versus the key I have for my copy of Win95b. Since the computer will not boot I must use the system floppy. I want to open the system.dat in the editor on the floppy, but the computer says I am out of far memory. I think there is a way to tweak the config.sys on the floppy to access all of the 64 meg of ram on my system, but I not real familiar with dos.

[BFlurie]

The W95 OEM registration number is also on your W95 booklet (if you've got that). But any valid OEM reg# SHOULD work -- I've done it countless times.

W98's version of Regedit.exe should be able to export System & User.dat to a text file to read from DOS w/o an error --
c:
cd\
cd windows
attrib -h -r -s *.dat
regedit /l:c:\windows\system.dat /e c:\system.txt
regedit /r:c:\windows\user.dat /e c:\user.txt
attrib +h +r +s *.dat

This would put readable text files in C:\
The key is:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion]
"ProductId"="XXXXX-OEM-XXXXXXX-XXXXX"

PS -- I would recommend staying away from IE5.5.

[This message has been edited by BFlurie (edited 09-11-2000).]

[howste]

I was going to email you something that might help, but your email address isn't listed. It's a large text file - too big to post. If you want, email me at the address in my profile, and I'll send it to you.

Steve