WinME goes into perpetual loop upon attempt to install
I have a 1.8GHz Pentium Dual-Core machine with 2GB RAM and two hard drives
(each 320GB). The partitions (created with Acronis Disk Director 10) are configured as follows: Drive 0 C: 240GB NTFS, Vista installed J: 80GB FAT32, empty but reserved for WinME (this partition was set to active before attempting to install WinME) Drive 1 D: 160GB NTFS, empty but reserved for XP K: 40GB FAT32, empty but reserved for Linux (120GB, Acronis Secure Zone) My DVD drive is labeled E and I have a floppy drive. Since neither my machine nor Acronis OS Selector could detect my Windows ME (full version) CD upon restart, I created a WinME boot disk (thanks to www.bootdisk.com) that would access both my partition intended for WinME and my DVD drive. The partition was designated as C, and the DVD drive R. After placing my WinME CD in the DVD drive and typing SETUP, the operation seemed to run normally, asking me to place a blank floppy in the floppy drive to create a boot disk, then finishing the installation process in under 6 minutes. After automatically restarting, I got the WinME logo screen for a good 2 seconds, before the screen went blank and was replaced by the Windows Millennium Startup Menu, with the following 4 choices: 1. Normal 2. Logged 3. Safe mode 4. Step-by-step confirmation In addition, I got the following message: Warning: Windows did not finish loading on the previous attempt. Choose Safe mode, to start Windows with a minimal set of drivers. I chose 'safe mode' expecting to go into safe mode, but instead my machine rebooted and brought up the same Windows Millennium Startup Menu screen. I tried 'Normal', and this screen came up yet again. I tried all 4 choices, and each time my machine booted back to the startup menu screen, with the same message telling me that Windows didn't finish loading. I repeated the installation process, to see if I missed anything (I don't think I did), and still my machine repeatedly reboots to the startup menu screen. I have to admit I don't have much of a clue what to do with a boot disk, but I tried using both of them (the one with the WinME files I got from bootdisk.com, the other created by the WinME installation process) to restore the command prompt screen. I checked the contents of my WinME partition, and it looked normal, with nothing out of the ordinary that I would notice. So, I typed WIN, and after a 3-second pause, I got these messages: Registry file was not found. Registry services may be inoperative for this session. XMS cache problem. Registry services may be inoperative this session. They came up in a split-second before the screen went blank and my machine rebooted. When I boot back into my OS Selector screen, the WinME logo shows up as one of my boot choices, but when I click the icon my machine immediately goes to the Windows Millennium Startup Menu screen. I had a 2.8GHz Celeron machine (with WinXP) before this one, and I had no trouble booting into WinME in my attempt to create a multiboot system. So, what have I left undone that is keeping WinME from activating on my new machine? |
WinME goes into perpetual loop upon attempt to install
By the way, my intention for WinME is to use it almost exclusively for my
oldest games, many of which will not run properly (if at all) in Vista, XP or even the program called DOSBox. |
WinME goes into perpetual loop upon attempt to install
You have two problems here....
1) ME must be installed on the first visible partition of a hard drive 2) ME will not install with 2GB RAM available Assuming that you've already dealt with 1 by hiding the other partition using a boot manager, then your problem becomes dealing with too much RAM In the first instance, I'd limit it to 512MB, by editing the already-created system.ini file on the HD open the System.ini file in a text editor and locate the MaxFileCache= setting (you'll find it in the [vcache] section). Change this setting so that it equals 524,288KB (the equivalent of 512MB) or less. For example, you could change it to read MaxFileCache=393216, which is equivalent to 384MB. Save the changes, and boot to Windows - with luck it should work. It's best to start with a fairly low value for MFC (such as 393216) - but never try to go higher than the 512MB mark http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253912 You may also need to limit total RAM visible - MaxPhysPage=20000 will limit it to 512MB - but you should be able to go to 1GB without problems (=40000) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/181862 HTH -- Noel Paton CrashFixPC Nil Carborundum Illegitemi www.crashfixpc.co.uk "CookyMonzta" u50174@uwe wrote in message news:92b81ef696f4f@uwe... By the way, my intention for WinME is to use it almost exclusively for my oldest games, many of which will not run properly (if at all) in Vista, XP or even the program called DOSBox. |
WinME goes into perpetual loop upon attempt to install
You may be right. My last machine had only 512MB of RAM. But I had little
trouble installing and activating WinME on my second partition (the first partition had XP, which came with the machine). -- Message posted via WindowsKB.com http://www.windowskb.com/Uwe/Forums....setup/200903/1 |
WinME goes into perpetual loop upon attempt to install
You'll only have managed that if the partition with XP was hidden (which
would effectively have been the case if it was formatted NTFS) -- Noel Paton CrashFixPC Nil Carborundum Illegitemi www.crashfixpc.co.uk "CookyMonzta via WindowsKB.com" u50174@uwe wrote in message news:92d12e7eb2815@uwe... You may be right. My last machine had only 512MB of RAM. But I had little trouble installing and activating WinME on my second partition (the first partition had XP, which came with the machine). -- Message posted via WindowsKB.com http://www.windowskb.com/Uwe/Forums....setup/200903/1 |
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