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Re-Installation of WindowsMe
Quite a lot of users are facing problems to re-install WindowsMe
particularly from the OEM Recovery disc supplied by the manufacturers. The Easy Recovery by the easydesksoftware claims to do it without any loss of contents on the hard disk. http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/reinME.htm The steps stated therin are very important in case of WindowsMe re-installation. ---------------------------------------------------------------- The easydesksoftware claim that their Easy Recovery utility can easily re-install windows from the OEM Recovery disc and any missing/damaged file and CdKey recovered. It may be worth to have a look at their procedure. However their intention is to sell their product($15) Easy Recovery can be downloaded from their site for a test run. Download Easy Recovery http://www.easydesksoftware.com/easyrec.htm Copy from easydesksoftware's site Easy Recovery The tool for people without a Windows CD Windows 9x and ME Do you have a Recovery CD? Do you have to format every time you reinstall or install Windows? Easy Recovery can stop you from having to format and lose all your work. Easy Recovery can reinstall your Windows and System files in less then 10 minutes. If you do not have a Microsoft Windows CD to reinstall Windows from, it can make you a Windows installation CD. And if reinstalling Windows on top of its' self does fix your problem, Easy Recovery has an alternative method for restoring Windows without formatting. Easy Recovery makes it easy to backup your Windows System files and stores them on your hard drive in 6 compressed cabinet files. If a complete reinstall of Windows is required you simply type the word "Recovery" at the DOS prompt. In less then 10 minutes Easy Recovery will uncompress and install all the files saved. It will overwrite all the Windows files, restoring any damaged, corrupt, or missing files. No formatting required! Easy Recovery also has a Registry backup update feature allowing you to keep an updated Registry in the backup folder for you. If you have a recovery CD that came with your computer, you will no longer have to format your hard drive to reinstall Windows. No longer will you have to lose all your files and data that you created. Easy Recovery can also make you a real Windows CD that you can reinstall Windows from, without having to format. This means that should you ever have a problem that cannot be repaired by using the Easy Recovery backup files, you still will not have to format . Easy Recovery will locate all the required files on your hard drive that you need in order to reinstall Windows and copy them to your CD writer (burner). And it will even tell you the CD Key needed to reinstall Windows. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Alternative Method Easy Recovery offers you an alternative to formatting. When it is time to format try this method instead first. From the DOS prompt, rename your Windows folder. Example C:\ and type the words REN Windows Winold. this will rename the Windows folder to Winold. Now you can reinstall Windows to C:\Windows without formatting and losing all your data. Once the installation is complete you will find that Windows did gather a lot of information from the Registry from the Winold installation. Next, start each piece of software that is on your machine. If the program complains about a DLL or other file missing start Easy Recovery and go to Options.Use the "Find me a file from my old Windows Folder", then point Easy Recovery once to the Winold folder and tell it what file you want. It will find it if it exists and install it to the correct folder in the new Windows folder. |
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Re-Installation of WindowsMe
And your purpose in post this was?
There are easier ways to reinstall the OS clean without having to buy a program to do it! Simply copy the contents of the C:\Windows\Options files to CD, and do the install from that. - after checking that you have a viable CD, and all the correct files on it. OTOH, a clean install is usually what Recovery CD's are all about, so it should be unnecessary anyhow. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f.../Mar27pmvp.asp "AAH" wrote in message ... Quite a lot of users are facing problems to re-install WindowsMe particularly from the OEM Recovery disc supplied by the manufacturers. The Easy Recovery by the easydesksoftware claims to do it without any loss of contents on the hard disk. http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/reinME.htm The steps stated therin are very important in case of WindowsMe re-installation. |
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Re-Installation of WindowsMe
"Noel Paton" wrote in message
... And your purpose in post this was? There are easier ways to reinstall the OS clean without having to buy a program to do it! Simply copy the contents of the C:\Windows\Options files to CD, and do the install from that. - after checking that you have a viable CD, and all the correct files on it. And a tiny batch menu, eg 1. Clean install. 2. Repair re-install. Both run Setup.exe, but 1 runs FORMAT C: first. Jeez, eh? Mine sorts WMP9 if present - but not IE6.0. That would be something - but without that, it'd be nothing. Shane |
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