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reinstalling ME
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I am trying to help a friend reinstall windows ME from a completely formatted pc. He has what appears to be a working boot disk. Everythink seems to go OK but the cd drive seems to have been changed from "d" to "e". When i get the E: prompt i type in setup and it seems to try to read the cdrom but nothing happens. I have been into bios and asked the pc to boot up from "E" but the disk is not bootable. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks -- James Chambers |
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reinstalling ME
Run setup from the CD by booting with the Win Me boot floppy and entering
E:\Setup at the A:\ prompt. The reason why the CD-ROM is assigned E is probably due to a RAMdisk being assigned D. That is C: is the hard drive (single partition), D: a RAM disk set up using some of the system RAM and E: the CD-ROM. Once Win Me is up and running you should find the CD-ROM is enumerated as D although you can subsequently change this to suit your needs. -- Mike Maltby wetherbyjim wrote: Hi I am trying to help a friend reinstall windows ME from a completely formatted pc. He has what appears to be a working boot disk. Everythink seems to go OK but the cd drive seems to have been changed from "d" to "e". When i get the E: prompt i type in setup and it seems to try to read the cdrom but nothing happens. I have been into bios and asked the pc to boot up from "E" but the disk is not bootable. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks |
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