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Reinstalling Windows Me
Is there a way to reinstall windows Me, without having a cd to do it with? I
did not know if it was like XP, and came iwth the reinstall option in the bootup. My mom is having trouble with her computer and it has windows Me, and she wants me to reinstall windows, and the computer did not come with a reinstallination cd. I have my copy of windows Xp, can i install that one on her computer? or do i have to do the upgrade? |
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Reinstalling Windows Me
You cannot legally or practically use your XP CD to install XP on your
mother's PC. Reinstalling Win Me. Look for a folder containing the file BASE2.CAB. By default this will be either C:\Windows\Options\Install or C;\Windows\Options\Cabs but some OEMs place it elsewhere, sometimes even on a second partition. When located and if it contains not only BASE2.CAB but also other cab files including PRECOPY.CAB, CABINET.CAB, and several others such as NET3.CAB, DRIVER5.CAB and WIN_8.CAB as well as the all important setup.exe then this is the folder you need. Copy the entire contents of this folder to a CD. The total size should be at least 153MB and at least 52 files plus possibly a folder. Once you have a CD containing the Win Me cab files and setup.exe and know the product key and have a bootable floppy to hand you are all set to wipe you hard disk and can clean install Win Me by running setup.exe on the CD you made. If you don't have the product key to hand you can recover the product key from the registry using a program such as Belarc Adviser or AIDA32 (http://www.aumha.org/downloads/aida32.zip) or by using Regedit and noting the data for the value ProductKey found at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP redheaded70 wrote: Is there a way to reinstall windows Me, without having a cd to do it with? I did not know if it was like XP, and came iwth the reinstall option in the bootup. My mom is having trouble with her computer and it has windows Me, and she wants me to reinstall windows, and the computer did not come with a reinstallination cd. I have my copy of windows Xp, can i install that one on her computer? or do i have to do the upgrade? |
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