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Steam Hound · **** Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 422 Location: Suffolk

im trying to install windows ME on my old lap top.
its been formatted.
have the start up disk.
screen says A:\>
have start up disk and system disk in the drives, press enter and nothing happens. im outta ideas!
any advice plz, would like to learn how to do this.
thankyou - Ray

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dxmedia · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 22:12 Post subject:

Go into BIOS - should have a 'press del to enter bios' or something on boot.

If not when you get the first screen up, press, del, F12 or backspace.

You'll get a FUGLY screen up with loads of settings. Use the arrow keys and normally page up and down to change - and find BOOT ORDER. Set first boot to be CD Rom. Save the settings (the right hand option normally) and reboot, and it should try to load of the cd.

If not and you can only get a:\

Try typing in ...

d:\setup.exe

or d:\install.exe

or try replacing the d for another letter such as e or f (c is your hard drive)

It'll be that your BIOS is set to boot up from the hard drive first though and not the cd rom drive which will have the disk in.
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Steam Hound · **** Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 422 Location: Suffolk

thanks for your advice chris, i will try that now..

markymoan · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 22:15 Post subject:

Or i'll nip over Ray and show you,, or you can come here Idea

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greasemonkey · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 22:21 Post subject:

Hi make sure is a bootable version of ME pm me if its not as i have a full COE version you can have for a few £ if not
cheers
Steve
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dxmedia · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 22:24 Post subject:

Just though - you've two disks, I take it the startup disk is a floppy??

If so, when you see a:\ type in dir that will list everything on the disk, if there's loads type in dir/p/w and it will scroll

Is there anything such as install.exe or setup.exe ?? if so, to run it just type in at a:\ install.exe and it should run the set up program.
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markymoan · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 22:32 Post subject:

If the boot disk is floppy type fdisk and it will bring up options
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Steam Hound · **** Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 422 Location: Suffolk

thanks for your replies Very Happy

.... been following DX instuctions and all goes well untill i get an error message...
says disk cannot be installed... must be a duff disk ! Evil or Very Mad

im happy i got to this stage of loading it in, never been this far..
the boot disk is a floppy and the other a CD one.
will try again tomorrow...

dxmedia · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 22:42 Post subject:

Steam Hound · **** Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 422 Location: Suffolk

markymoan · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 23:06 Post subject:

He needs a formatted partition to install me on lol
Delete all partitions
Formatt
Creat new partition
Formatt
Install windows Question

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markymoan · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 23:07 Post subject:

Oh and in fat 16 not ntfs Wink

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dxmedia · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:58 Post subject:

It had already been formatted, and fat32 not fat16, and since it's not an NT kernel there's no option for NTFS Wink

Fat16 hasn't been used since windows 95
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Steam Hound · **** Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 422 Location: Suffolk

dxmedia · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:46 Post subject:

Ray,

If you have a CD burner, I can dig out a link for downloading a copy of ME - it's totally legal downloading windows operating systems, it's the licence key you pay money for not the software.
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