Directions for formatting?

[magg]

Hi,

I have win98 but want to install winME. As the ME is a 'copy' I don't have a startup disk or anything.

If I format c:, can I use my win98 startup disk and the winME cd or do I have to do it another way?

Thanks

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[EvilAngel]

Well when I first installed my WinMe I installed over the Win98 and it worked great. Then I made a bootdisk and did a fresh install of WinMe . There might be an easier way but thats the way I did it.

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[RoundEye]

magg, check you mail, I would bet there is a WinMe boot disk in it.

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[Sid]

The 98 disk will work just fine for installing win ME

[EvilAngel]

Originally posted by RoundEye:
magg, check you mail, I would bet there is a WinMe boot disk in it.


Hey roundeye, how do you do that? I tried to do that with fubar but I couldnt really do it to well. heheh

Could you post a step by step on how I can send the contyents of a disk and send it? well TIA http://www.speedguide.net/ubb/smile.gif



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If I was GOD you'd sell your soul!

[Ward]

Check your ME disk........I have 2 different versions and both are bootable.

[RoundEye]

I put the boot floppy in the drive, then under the edit file I selected "select all" (you may get a prompt if you have "do not show hidden files" selected). Then copy/paste the files to a new folder("WinMe boot disk")zip it with Winzip, send it. Then all they have to do is unzip it, select all, send to floppy and they have a boot disk.

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[glc1]

magg, you should be able to boot up off of the WinME CD, if your motherboard is fairly new. What motherboard do you have?

[EvilAngel]

Thank you very much Mr Roundeye. http://www.speedguide.net/ubb/wink.gif I appreciate it http://www.speedguide.net/ubb/smile.gif

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[magg]

Thanks Roundeye.

glc1, mobo is chaintech CT-6BTA3

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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance - Confucius

[crazyman]

try this >>
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q255/8/67.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0#1

[Juggernaut]

All you need is any boot disk that has CD ROM support. As long as you can get to DOS and access the CD, that's all you need. It doesn't just have to be a WinME boot disk.