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"Brande" wrote in message
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I am so glad that I decided to have a go at this. I have done it, the
winme
is up and running. I altered the booting sequence to second boot cdrom and
third boot HDD. Put the restore cd in and away it went. It is now back to
normal, even the memory is back up to 18GB. Thank you all very much for
your
time and efforts. I have learned more now about the computer. I have a
computer in the attic that is win 95, that I gave up on years ago, I feel
now
that I could try again with it, then at least I could sell it.
I have hit another problem now, I can't find the first disk for his
worksuite for microsoft, I have all the other 7 but the first one is
missing.
I have turned his bedroom upside down and can't find it. It legally
belongs
to him, so is there any way of getting it. I haven't got it on this
computer
or I could lend him mine.
Brande

"Jack E Martinelli" wrote:

Very nicely done, Rick & Noel.
You're in good hands, Brande. Read carefully, be patient, and follow
the
instructions exactly.

P.S. You are as old as you think ...
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"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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Brande
As Rick said, you need to *run* the file you downloaded on a windows
PC to
create the boot disk (use the OEM Win ME boot disk program -
instructions
below).
You should also change the second and third boot devices - preferably
to
the
CD and HD, so that your boot order is Floppy, CD, HD. Then if all else
fails, your system should be ready to accept the Recovery disk.


Insert a formatted floppy disk, run the program, and when it's
finished,
shut down the PC, then restart it with the floppy in the drive.
Once that's done, and working, you can remove the disk, and boot back
to
Windows and let us knowg (use CTRL+ALT+DEL, or the reset button to
reboot)

Then go here, and see if you can follow the directions to use System
Restore
to repair the system - it's worth a shot, and will save a lot of
effort if
it works.
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=279736
The instructions look a lot more complex than they are - just print
them
out
and take them one step at a time.

Good Luck

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"Brande" wrote in message
...
Yippee, I have the floppy back. I went into the bios like you said,
but
it
was enabled. The only thing that was disabled w2as the swap floppy
drive,
so
I left that as it was. Second boot was HDD. What should be third
boot,
cos
they have...LS/Zip, should this be the cd, I didn't alter it, in
case it
was important??
Before coming out i went into the cmos section and the drive A said
none,
so I altered that to 1.44 3.25 floppy. Now the drive is up and
working.
I put
the downloaded disks in and it wouldn't accept any of them. There
were 3
different ones in the download page, so I saved all of them, to make
sure
I had the right one, but it keeps saying remove disks or other media
and
press any key to continue.
I have restored this computer before, I am sure I didn't have a
floppy
then, I am sure I just put the restore CD in without a floppy. But
then
again, I
am getting old.

"Jack E Martinelli" wrote:

Brande, while waiting for Noel to return, boot to the BIOS setup
program
and confirm that the floppy drive controller is enabled, and that
the
boot
process is configured to boot first from the floppy (before the HD
or
the
CD).
Then reboot with your new EBD in the floppy drive to retest your
boot
disk startup.

And I didn't read any rubbish at all in his 1/20/05 response ...
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