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iv got an older e machine (etower 333k). The operating system that
came with it was ME the first hard drive crashed. i have an older 20 gig hard drive im putting in but it tells me to run a floppy boot disk. i don't have one i do have a dos floppy i run it but it does not show the hard drive now in bios it shows just fine. How do i get it to show in dos so i can formate and install??? |
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You are in the wrong group. You want the ME newsgroups.
microsoft.public.windowsme.general microsoft.public.windowsme.setup You can get an ME boot disk from www.bootdisk.com -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com wrote in message ... iv got an older e machine (etower 333k). The operating system that came with it was ME the first hard drive crashed. i have an older 20 gig hard drive im putting in but it tells me to run a floppy boot disk. i don't have one i do have a dos floppy i run it but it does not show the hard drive now in bios it shows just fine. How do i get it to show in dos so i can formate and install??? |
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Windows ME setup includes partitioning and formatting tools like XP? I
didn't know that. Good thing I'm flattening a box this morning. I can test, eg. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "Ingeborg" wrote in message ... wrote: iv got an older e machine (etower 333k). The operating system that came with it was ME the first hard drive crashed. i have an older 20 gig hard drive im putting in but it tells me to run a floppy boot disk. i don't have one i do have a dos floppy i run it but it does not show the hard drive now in bios it shows just fine. How do i get it to show in dos so i can formate and install??? With WinME you should be able to boot from CD and just follow the instructions. When you want to do it with a dos floppy you'll have to use FDISK to create a primary partition, activate it, then reboot (from floppy) and use FORMAT C: to format that partition, and then use SYS C: to make the harddisk bootable. |
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On May 28, 12:44 pm, "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote:
You are in the wrong group. You want the ME newsgroups. microsoft.public.windowsme.general microsoft.public.windowsme.setup You can get an ME boot disk fromwww.bootdisk.com -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/Userwww.grystmill.com wrote in message ... iv got an older e machine (etower 333k). The operating system that came with it was ME the first hard drive crashed. i have an older 20 gig hard drive im putting in but it tells me to run a floppy boot disk. i don't have one i do have a dos floppy i run it but it does not show the hard drive now in bios it shows just fine. How do i get it to show in dos so i can formate and install??? i do apologize if im in the wrong group but this was the only one that had any thing close to my problem. Also to get a little in depth my cd rom will not work and in dos it will not show the c drive all i get when i try is invalid drive specification any ideas?? |
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Yes, I have ideas, and at the moment they all have to do with broken or
disconnected hardware. But I'm not going to go any farther. Please, FOR YOUR OWN GOOD!!!!, go use the newsgroups I listed. Getting advice here is dangerous. Yes, what you ask about is probably something we could guide you through trouble-shooting, but we'd forget that we're talking about ME (or some folks don't know ME at all), and the discussion will wander and we'll inevitably forget that we're talking about ME and suggest things that are all wrong for your system. Plus, you're going at it all backwards when you ask for our help. These things you include in your second post are VERY important hints as to what might be wrong with your system, and you already knew that, or should have. When asking for assistance in these groups, explain the WHOLE picture. For instance, is this a machine you just picked up, or one you've been using that just went on the blink. What have you been doing to the machine that might have messed it up? Adding hardware, adding software, running some kind of utility that promised to fix your machine, what? That kind of knowledge is CRITICAL. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com wrote in message ... On May 28, 12:44 pm, "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote: You are in the wrong group. You want the ME newsgroups. microsoft.public.windowsme.general microsoft.public.windowsme.setup You can get an ME boot disk fromwww.bootdisk.com -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/Userwww.grystmill.com wrote in message ... iv got an older e machine (etower 333k). The operating system that came with it was ME the first hard drive crashed. i have an older 20 gig hard drive im putting in but it tells me to run a floppy boot disk. i don't have one i do have a dos floppy i run it but it does not show the hard drive now in bios it shows just fine. How do i get it to show in dos so i can formate and install??? i do apologize if im in the wrong group but this was the only one that had any thing close to my problem. Also to get a little in depth my cd rom will not work and in dos it will not show the c drive all i get when i try is invalid drive specification any ideas?? |
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iv got an older e machine (etower 333k). The operating system that came with it was ME the first hard drive crashed. i have an older 20 gig hard drive im putting in but it tells me to run a floppy boot disk. i don't have one i do have a dos floppy i run it but it does not show the hard drive now in bios it shows just fine. How do i get it to show in dos so i can formate and install??? Most hard drive manufacturers have installation software available for download. Maxtor and Seagate http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/ Western Digital http://support.wdc.com/download/inde...pid=999&swid=1 If you need to access your CD drive in DOS, see http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm Ben |
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Gary S. Terhune wrote:
OK, I've looked it up, mostly here, http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=17, and it appears as I thought -- that ME is just like all other 9x systems. Only OEM versions are bootable, and even then, I don't believe that is true for all Win98 or Win98SE OEM discs. And I've found reference that suggests that the ME OEM CD is capable of wiping and reformatting (or even repartitioning) the first hard drive if no existing ME OS is present. Which is something that would really **** me off, since I seldom install anything to an empty hard drive. http://theosfiles.com/os_windows/ospg_wme.htm From my experience auto-installing WinME from a bootable CD will wipe the entire disk. (Actually I only did it twice, once on an empty disk, and once on a used disk, containing a NTFS partition. Both times it was pretty straightforward). This seems no problem for the OP, since he wanted to reformat anyway. However, I didn't know not all ME CD's are bootable. |
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And I've found reference that suggests that the ME OEM CD is capable of wiping and reformatting (or even repartitioning) the first hard drive if no existing ME OS is present. Which is something that would really **** me off, since I seldom install anything to an empty hard drive. so, exzactly what would you do with an emptee drive,,,,, toss it inna bin? (wouldnt mind coming 'round your 'ouse once a week to see what i can get outta your bin..... sounds lika gold mine.) http://theosfiles.com/os_windows/ospg_wme.htm -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User |
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