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Noel,
Have sent you an e-mail. -- Mike Noel Paton wrote: Hmmmm - maybe I was a little sharp there....... The registry has very little power over the existing filesystem AFAIK - so files that are marked as the most highly protected in Win ME (the SR archive) cannot just be removed at will with a few sneaky Windows tricks - AFAIK, the ONLY way to delete the archive is to boot to DOS and do it from there. You could, if you have a big enough RAM stick, and your PC supports booting from USB, boot from Bart PE and use that to delete the files - but that presupposes that you have a recent XP and Bart PE available to use for the work. ...or you could use a Linux (ptui!) - with the same provisos as for Bart. Does your PC support booting from USB? - AFAICT, it doesn't. - RTFM for that. |
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Sean,
The cavalry is on its way. Please be patient. :-) -- Mike Maltby Sean wrote: Well the _Restore wont be showing 35% of my C: drive, right? |
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Sean - please email me (my email here is valid).
Mike has pointed something out to me that needs an off-group discussion, but may solve your problem (If I can get my head around it). -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Sean" wrote in message ... What about this thought.... just remove this _Restore. "Noel Paton" wrote: Oh - another thought occurs... you could parallel install another operating system onto the drive in another partition and use that to delete the files...... -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... Hmmmm - maybe I was a little sharp there....... The registry has very little power over the existing filesystem AFAIK - so files that are marked as the most highly protected in Win ME (the SR archive) cannot just be removed at will with a few sneaky Windows tricks - AFAIK, the ONLY way to delete the archive is to boot to DOS and do it from there. You could, if you have a big enough RAM stick, and your PC supports booting from USB, boot from Bart PE and use that to delete the files - but that presupposes that you have a recent XP and Bart PE available to use for the work. ...or you could use a Linux (ptui!) - with the same provisos as for Bart. Does your PC support booting from USB? - AFAICT, it doesn't. - RTFM for that. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... WTF has that got to do with your problem??? -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Sean" wrote in message ... What about removing the _restore files in the registry? "Noel Paton" wrote: Nothing - all it does is copy files to a 'holding cell' on the HD, compress some of them and then save the result to the floppy - NOT to the USB drive (although if you can force the drive to appear as the A: drive you may be lucky)!! -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Sean" wrote in message ... Actually, I havent tried to make a start up disk using the memory slot. Under the add/remove I see the option there. What sort of memory will I require to make a start up disk? What do you think? "Noel Paton" wrote: No - you need full DOS Mode -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's wrote in message ups.com... Noel. is there a way to complete this by not using a start up disk. I can get into DOS within Me, right? |
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