Can I get the ME install CD to only reformat the C partition, not theD?

ROFL

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http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

"Shane" wrote in message
...
MowGreen [MVP] wrote:
Arturo Seis wrote:

So I'm Arturo Seis???

Not sure how that happened!

snip
Shane


Anything is possible with OE ... even a personality transplant. w

MG

What if it gets rejected???


Arturo

Then we apply an update and reboot you. That would make you
Arturo Seis V.2. g

MG


Shane wrote:

MowGreen [MVP] wrote:

Arturo Seis wrote:


So I'm Arturo Seis???

Not sure how that happened!

snip
Shane


Anything is possible with OE ... even a personality transplant. w

MG


What if it gets rejected???


Arturo

On Oct 22, 1:47*am, "Mike M" wrote:
I'm sorry but you don't appear to have taken in what I said. *Nowhere did
I say in my previous post anything about "installing", instead I simply
stated how to access a laptop drive using a desktop and an external usb
box and laptop IDE/full size IDE converter.
*In my case I did "install" an
OS but this was by first imaging the existing system from the old drive
and then restoring that image to the new drive. *Nowhere did I say or
suggest that that was something you should consider.

I didn't accuse you of saying I could install that way, Mike ) If
you'll read my post carefully, I simply was commenting that, although
it's "not always necessary to open a desktop", because USB boxes give
you many options, it might be necessary to open it in order to install
an OS. I didn't mean to imply that YOU said that I could install an OS
without opening the desktop. Sorry to give that impression.

I read somewhere that it's possible to rename the External Box as the
C drive, but I imagine that would make Windows go nuts.

Why do you want to do this? Not that it isn't a simple job with a modern
desktop but I can't think why you should want to do this.

I don't want to do it, I was just babbling and theorizing )

*I've in a
number of posts made a suggestion as to how to clean install Win Me on
your laptop drive by copying the DOS boot files from the Win Me boot
floppy and the Win9x folder from the Win Me CD to the laptop drive using a
desktop and then restoring the drive to the laptop, booting to DOS and
then running setup. *Shane has also made some suggestions.

Yes, and I'm going to do them, one at a time, starting tomorrow. I'm
very grateful for all the help.


May I make one final suggestion and that is that you now try some of the
various suggestions that have *been made.

Yes, it shall be done soonly.

On Oct 22, 4:10*am, "Mart" wrote:
Perhaps a bit late in the day now, but - and I don't want to burst the
bubble - maybe another 'lateral solution' (yet another skin of the cat!)
would have been to simply obtain a 2.5 inch IDE to USB enclosure and put
your 'original laptop' HDD in it to make and add a portable drive to your XP
box. (Self-powered [USB buspowered]) Secure too. And forget the laptop!

Good idea, Mart, but the only problem is I don't own an XP desktop.
The laptop is my only computer. I put the HD in a USB box and plug it
into XP desktops at cybercafes. Before someone accuses me of
misleading, I challenge anyone to find where I said or implied that I
own an XP computer. )

On Oct 22, 4:32*am, "Mike M" wrote:
Corday wrote:
This thread is getting confusing. It seems the problem has been
solved if the responses had been tried.

Indeed, and as far as I can tell to date, not one of the suggestions has
yet been tried.

That's because I'm very busy lately. They will be tried in order of
perceived likelihood of success and ease of implementation starting on
the morrow. )

Fair enough and I wish you the best of luck. I for one didn't realise
that you were posting from an internet café or similar and wrongly assumed
that you were posting from a second PC.
--
Mike Maltby



Gumby wrote:

That's because I'm very busy lately. They will be tried in order of
perceived likelihood of success and ease of implementation starting on
the morrow. )

Oh no please not another one g

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"MowGreen [MVP]" wrote in message
...
Then we apply an update and reboot you. That would make you
Arturo Seis V.2. g

MG


Shane wrote:

MowGreen [MVP] wrote:

Arturo Seis wrote:


So I'm Arturo Seis???

Not sure how that happened!

snip
Shane


Anything is possible with OE ... even a personality transplant. w

MG


What if it gets rejected???


Arturo

You've got something against clo[w]nes or bad puns ? w

MG

Joan Archer wrote:

Oh no please not another one g

Challenge all you like, but in your second post you said :-

.. If I tried to install it from an XP desktop,
with the laptop HD connected to USB,
I don't know if it would work.

That statement, in conjunction with the fact that you seem to be able to
post to and correspond with this News Group, make it pretty reasonable for
one to ASS-U-ME that you implied that you had an XP (or some other) machine
of your own available.

And, you've already got your own solution anyway!
I put the HD in a USB box and plug it
into XP desktops at cybercafes.

The laptop is my only computer.

Perhaps you could have mentioned these facts in the first place. However, as
you only drip the important background details and do not appear to have
tried any of the suggestions yet - and as we are all going around in
circles - then I'm pulling from this thread until or unless you come back
with something more positive than "just babbling and theorizing". The
topic's pretty much exhausted anyway.

Good luck

Mart


"Gumby" wrote in message
...
On Oct 22, 4:10 am, "Mart" wrote:
Perhaps a bit late in the day now, but - and I don't want to burst the
bubble - maybe another 'lateral solution' (yet another skin of the cat!)
would have been to simply obtain a 2.5 inch IDE to USB enclosure and put
your 'original laptop' HDD in it to make and add a portable drive to your
XP
box. (Self-powered [USB buspowered]) Secure too. And forget the laptop!

Good idea, Mart, but the only problem is I don't own an XP desktop.
The laptop is my only computer. I put the HD in a USB box and plug it
into XP desktops at cybercafes. Before someone accuses me of
misleading, I challenge anyone to find where I said or implied that I
own an XP computer. )

Mart,

I don't want to go back through the entire thread to work out what was
justifiable or what was intuitive or whatever else whichmore and insoforth
as can be ascertained, but I have been operating all along on the basis that
Gumby did not have a desktop of his own. A cybercafe did not occur to me as
a possibility - but luckily I get off on learning something new every day,
so I'm quite pleased to have been wrong. I had supposed he'd be borrowing a
friend or acquaintance's computer time to do the deed.

Shane


"Mart" wrote in message
...
Challenge all you like, but in your second post you said :-

.. If I tried to install it from an XP desktop,
with the laptop HD connected to USB,
I don't know if it would work.

That statement, in conjunction with the fact that you seem to be able to
post to and correspond with this News Group, make it pretty reasonable for
one to ASS-U-ME that you implied that you had an XP (or some other)
machine
of your own available.

And, you've already got your own solution anyway!
I put the HD in a USB box and plug it
into XP desktops at cybercafes.

The laptop is my only computer.

Perhaps you could have mentioned these facts in the first place. However,
as
you only drip the important background details and do not appear to have
tried any of the suggestions yet - and as we are all going around in
circles - then I'm pulling from this thread until or unless you come back
with something more positive than "just babbling and theorizing". The
topic's pretty much exhausted anyway.

Good luck

Mart


"Gumby" wrote in message
...
On Oct 22, 4:10 am, "Mart" wrote:
Perhaps a bit late in the day now, but - and I don't want to burst the
bubble - maybe another 'lateral solution' (yet another skin of the cat!)
would have been to simply obtain a 2.5 inch IDE to USB enclosure and put
your 'original laptop' HDD in it to make and add a portable drive to
your
XP
box. (Self-powered [USB buspowered]) Secure too. And forget the laptop!

Good idea, Mart, but the only problem is I don't own an XP desktop.
The laptop is my only computer. I put the HD in a USB box and plug it
into XP desktops at cybercafes. Before someone accuses me of
misleading, I challenge anyone to find where I said or implied that I
own an XP computer. )