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George, reading back I see no point at which anyone suggests pointing the
setup routine at a particular folder. Rather, Mike is explaining how you can tell whether or not your cd is eligible for an upgrade and if not, to start the XP installation with ME running. fwiw I burned a copy of an OEM ME's files from the hd to cd and, while it works to install ME in almost every way as though it were a Full version, the cd still cannot be used for an XP upgrade (so I use my Windows 98 se cd). If your ME cd has *gone bad*, you ought to be able to get a replacement for pennies. Have Gateway refused you one??? Shane "george" wrote in message ... ok. bought winxp upgrade and booted from that cd. it got to the point where it says "setup cannot find previous version...." it then asked for my win me cd and i hit enter as prompted. it then thinks a few seconds and prompts me again for my win me cd. there is no way (through the default interface) to navigate it as you described to the win9X folder. now what should i do? -----Original Message----- If your Win Me CD has a folder called Win 9x containing the file BASE2.CAB and several other cab files including PRECOPY.CAB, CATALOG.CAB, and others such as NET3.CAB, DRIVER5.CAB and WIN_8.CAB (total size at least 153MB and at least 52 files plus probably a folder) then you can use an XP upgrade CD. You will still be able to clean install XP but will be asked to insert your Win Me during the installation to verify your eligibility to use the upgrade version. If however your Win Me CD is what is known as a Recovery CD then you will only be able to use an upgrade version of XP if you upgrade from a running Win Me system as a Recovery CD cannot be used to verify eligibility in the same way as a Win Me CD. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP wrote: my gateway computer came with ME. i tried to reinstall a clean copy of ME on the computer and it "killed" it. after much advice, i reformatted the HD, wrote zeroes, etc- all successful- no error messages or other indications that my HD is bad. and now my hard drive is supposedly ready to go. i tried reinstalling ME again, and it just won't install. it freezes before it even starts- and according to gateway, the CD is now bad. i even went as far as buying a brand new hard drive just in case the drive was bad. but at the same point of installation- the very beginning, the computer just freezes. i insert the install cd, boot up, choose "install windows", it shows some text, tells me that it's preparing to install windows, and then the screen goes black. i wait for an hour, nothing. drives are not running. i want to upgrade to XP, but am unsure if i need to buy the full version or the upgrade. my ME is legit and OEM, but it's just not installed. i'd hate to spend $200 when i only have to spend $100 . |
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Any version of XP is lightyears better than ME.
However, I'm not convinced the original poster's problem was related to the OS. Freezing up at seemingly random times (before the OS launches) sounds more like a hardware overheating or incompatibility problem. "Alias" wrote in message ... " wrote in message ... my gateway computer came with ME. i tried to reinstall a clean copy of ME on the computer and it "killed" it. after much advice, i reformatted the HD, wrote zeroes, etc- all successful- no error messages or other indications that my HD is bad. and now my hard drive is supposedly ready to go. i tried reinstalling ME again, and it just won't install. it freezes before it even starts- and according to gateway, the CD is now bad. i even went as far as buying a brand new hard drive just in case the drive was bad. but at the same point of installation- the very beginning, the computer just freezes. i insert the install cd, boot up, choose "install windows", it shows some text, tells me that it's preparing to install windows, and then the screen goes black. i wait for an hour, nothing. drives are not running. i want to upgrade to XP, but am unsure if i need to buy the full version or the upgrade. my ME is legit and OEM, but it's just not installed. i'd hate to spend $200 when i only have to spend $100 Buy an XP OEM version from Walmart. They're cheaper and exactly the same as a retail version other than, supposedly, OEMs are tied to the first computer they are installed on and they cost around $100 for the Home version. Even though the packaging says "to only be installed on a new computer", that's BS as I just installed one on an HP I bought in 2000 and it works wonderfully. In fact, the HP is behaving much better than when it had Me on it. -- Alias Use the Reply to Sender feature of your news reader program to email me. Utiliza Responder al Remitente para mandarme un mail. |
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