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Old October 12th 05, 11:19 PM
Mike M
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Noel,

Have sent you an e-mail.
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Noel Paton wrote:

Hmmmm - maybe I was a little sharp there.......

The registry has very little power over the existing filesystem AFAIK
- so files that are marked as the most highly protected in Win ME
(the SR archive) cannot just be removed at will with a few sneaky
Windows tricks - AFAIK, the ONLY way to delete the archive is to boot
to DOS and do it from there.

You could, if you have a big enough RAM stick, and your PC supports
booting from USB, boot from Bart PE and use that to delete the files
- but that presupposes that you have a recent XP and Bart PE
available to use for the work.

...or you could use a Linux (ptui!) - with the same provisos as
for Bart.

Does your PC support booting from USB? - AFAICT, it doesn't. - RTFM
for that.


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Old October 12th 05, 11:19 PM
Mike M
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Sean,

The cavalry is on its way. Please be patient. :-)
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Sean wrote:

Well the _Restore wont be showing 35% of my C: drive, right?


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Old October 13th 05, 07:10 AM
Noel Paton
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Sean - please email me (my email here is valid).
Mike has pointed something out to me that needs an off-group discussion, but
may solve your problem (If I can get my head around it).


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"Sean" wrote in message
...
What about this thought.... just remove this _Restore.

"Noel Paton" wrote:

Oh - another thought occurs... you could parallel install another
operating
system onto the drive in another partition and use that to delete the
files......

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"Noel Paton" wrote in message
...
Hmmmm - maybe I was a little sharp there.......

The registry has very little power over the existing filesystem AFAIK -
so
files that are marked as the most highly protected in Win ME (the SR
archive) cannot just be removed at will with a few sneaky Windows
tricks -
AFAIK, the ONLY way to delete the archive is to boot to DOS and do it
from
there.

You could, if you have a big enough RAM stick, and your PC supports
booting from USB, boot from Bart PE and use that to delete the files -
but
that presupposes that you have a recent XP and Bart PE available to use
for the work.

...or you could use a Linux (ptui!) - with the same provisos as for
Bart.

Does your PC support booting from USB? - AFAICT, it doesn't. - RTFM for
that.


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"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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WTF has that got to do with your problem???


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"Sean" wrote in message
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What about removing the _restore files in the registry?

"Noel Paton" wrote:

Nothing - all it does is copy files to a 'holding cell' on the HD,
compress
some of them and then save the result to the floppy - NOT to the USB
drive
(although if you can force the drive to appear as the A: drive you
may
be
lucky)!!


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"Sean" wrote in message
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Actually, I havent tried to make a start up disk using the memory
slot.

Under the add/remove I see the option there. What sort of memory
will
I
require to make a start up disk?

What do you think?


"Noel Paton" wrote:

No - you need full DOS Mode

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ups.com...
Noel. is there a way to complete this by not using a start up
disk.

I can get into DOS within Me, right?
















 




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