Server upgrade 3.71 to 4.05 problems

Eons ago the boss installed Mas 90 3.71 and all was well. Until Windows decided to end of life the xp platform. We are able to run a workstation on Win8 machines, but not able to install the server portion. Company has purchased 4.0 in the past but they never installed it. Before my time....

We have the server on a aging winxp that is near the end of its life and we pulled out a whole bunch of Mas 90 4.05-4.2 cd's.

Problem is that we are unable to install as we cannot locate the keys that came with it. We have all of the sleeves, but it is asking for 4 fields of data and we only have 3 from 3.71. I printed the registration information from the workstation Win8 machine.

Have 4.05, 4.1, 4.2 in my hands.

Put 4.05 CD into my Win8 machine and got to the "Enter Company Information" screen.

Asking for Company Name, Reseller Name, Serial Number, Customer Number, User Key, Product Key (5 blocks of 5 characters) and Object Interface Key (Optional)

On 3.71 registration report have:
Company Name, Reseller Contact, Registration ID (6 digit number), Serial key for M90 System Activation (7 digit number) and Unlocking key (20 digit code), Serial key for 11 other modules each having a 11 digit Activation and 6 digit code.

So the requested information does not line up. I plugged in the numbers where I thought they should go and 4.2 is telling me I am missing information. The biggest one for me is that the Unlocking Key (Product Key?) is short by 5 characters.

Is there a workaround? Can we pull the data from 3.71? We stopped with the paid support in 2004 and my understanding is that Reseller can get us the numbers for a LOT of $.

This is all trying to get it installed on a computer that is not currently host to the 3.71 server. Will that make a difference? We cannot just install the 3.71 for 2 reasons. 1 that we are getting read errors anytime we try and install 3.71 server on the newer machines and 2 that there is a scratch on the cd. Probably related. We have installed the workstation on Win8 though.

We are looking at just getting a new PC running XP and running server on there, but would be nice to use the newer (but still old) 4.0+


Thanks.

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