re: Windows ME major problem Friday, June 13, 2003 at 1:56 am Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Cam (4178 messages posted) Well you should have a Windows bootdiskette START-DISK You CAN make one on any other Windows ME Computer. If you are fortunate enough to have the Cabinet files ON your Hard Disk-Drive then you could do an over-install of your operating system. With the Start-Disk [Botdiskette] in the A: drive, start your computer, and at the choice screen, choose "Minimum boot" and press enter. When the A:\> prompt loads type: A:\> C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS\INSTALL.EXE [Or SETUP.EXE] and press enter. The re-install should proceed from there. RE-INSTALLING WINDOWS ME YOU MUST HAVE your Windows ME ProductKey code to complete the install. Provided that the file: C:\WINDOWS\system.dat , is still on your C: drive , you can find it from the DOS prompt too. Type: A:\>EDIT C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.DAT Using your keyboard, press Alt then right arrow to move over to Edit. Down arrow to get to Search and press enter. Type: ProductKey , in the search window and press enter. The Number which you are looking for should appear immediately after the word ProductKey. I.E. ProductKey ABCD1-BCDE2-CDEF3-DEFG4-EFGH5 , for example. [That is a ficticious number, btw.] Make an absolutely ACCURATE record of it. If the install hangs run: A:\>scandisk /all , and yoou should do this FIRST before attempting the overinstall. If you are lucky it might work for you. Have you tried getting nto safe mode by tapping the F8 key during stsrt-up? With all of those files missing I doubt if you can, but it might be worth a try. Otherwise: RE-INSTALLING WINDOWS ME  MS KB Q255867 Good luck! Mac TUNING '98/ME FDISK FORMAT '98/ME INSTALLING IE6.0 SP1  RESPONSE Written in response to: Windows ME major problem (Jallal: Friday, June 13, 2003 at 1:42 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Windows ME major problem (Jallal: Fri, Jun 13, 2003, 1:42 am) re: Windows ME major problem (Jallal: Fri, Jun 13, 2003, 1:51 am) re: Windows ME major problem (Jack Gulley: Fri, Jun 13, 2003, 3:13 am) re: Performance Improvement (Cam: Fri, Jun 13, 2003, 3:18 am) re: Windows ME major problem (Cam: Fri, Jun 13, 2003, 1:56 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum