help re-installing windows ME

my screen says.. this product is an upgrade to microsoft
Windows. To use it, you must own one of the qualifying
products listed on the Microsoft windows millennium
edition box.
set up has searched yourhard disk and cannot fine any of
the qualifying products. please insert the set up disk
for your orginial version of windows and type the path to
the set up files below."

ok dear friends. what do i do. If i recall right the
computer came with 98 installed.. i upgraded to me around
2001. and have the orginal disc and 25 letter key.

i reformated my hard drive so there nothing on it.. to
find any thing from the original version.

i called microsoft and they say they no longer support me.

i called compaq and was given the orginal 25 key for the
orginal operations 98 system

what do i do.
any help will be appreciated.

Insert the Win 98CD when asked to "insert the set up disk for your original
version of windows and type the path to the set up files below" and point it
towards the folder containing the cab files. On Microsoft CDs this is a
folder named win98.

If instead of a system CD you have a recovery disk (although I don't think
these were used by OEM's when Win 98 was released) you will have to install
Win 98 using the recovery CD and then upgrade to Win Me.

Incidentally Microsoft DO still support Win Me (see Updated Clarification on
the Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Millennium Support
Extended Announcement
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;LifeAn1)
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



roland wrote:

my screen says.. this product is an upgrade to microsoft
Windows. To use it, you must own one of the qualifying
products listed on the Microsoft windows millennium
edition box.
set up has searched yourhard disk and cannot fine any of
the qualifying products. please insert the set up disk
for your orginial version of windows and type the path to
the set up files below."

ok dear friends. what do i do. If i recall right the
computer came with 98 installed.. i upgraded to me around
2001. and have the orginal disc and 25 letter key.

i reformated my hard drive so there nothing on it.. to
find any thing from the original version.

i called microsoft and they say they no longer support me.

i called compaq and was given the orginal 25 key for the
orginal operations 98 system

what do i do.
any help will be appreciated.

I have the same problem, I reformatted and only have the WIN ME upgrade CD, somehow I lost or misplaced the original WIN 98 CD. I tried my WIN 95 CD with no luck, what do I do now?

"Mike M" wrote:

Insert the Win 98CD when asked to "insert the set up disk for your original
version of windows and type the path to the set up files below" and point it
towards the folder containing the cab files. On Microsoft CDs this is a
folder named win98.

If instead of a system CD you have a recovery disk (although I don't think
these were used by OEM's when Win 98 was released) you will have to install
Win 98 using the recovery CD and then upgrade to Win Me.

Incidentally Microsoft DO still support Win Me (see Updated Clarification on
the Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Millennium Support
Extended Announcement
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;LifeAn1)
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



roland wrote:

my screen says.. this product is an upgrade to microsoft
Windows. To use it, you must own one of the qualifying
products listed on the Microsoft windows millennium
edition box.
set up has searched yourhard disk and cannot fine any of
the qualifying products. please insert the set up disk
for your orginial version of windows and type the path to
the set up files below."

ok dear friends. what do i do. If i recall right the
computer came with 98 installed.. i upgraded to me around
2001. and have the orginal disc and 25 letter key.

i reformated my hard drive so there nothing on it.. to
find any thing from the original version.

i called microsoft and they say they no longer support me.

i called compaq and was given the orginal 25 key for the
orginal operations 98 system

what do i do.
any help will be appreciated.

You may have the cheaper upgrade version of Win Me for which the qualifying
product is either Win 98 or 98SE in which case you might be out of luck.
Check the CD.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Rabib wrote:

I have the same problem, I reformatted and only have the WIN ME
upgrade CD, somehow I lost or misplaced the original WIN 98 CD. I
tried my WIN 95 CD with no luck, what do I do now?