re: Windows ME major problem
Friday, June 13, 2003 at 3:13 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jack Gulley
(5917 messages posted)
Major problem and it could be almost impossible to recover from without formatting
and installing everything again, if you deleted some of the critical information
files Windows ME builds and uses.
First, you really need a boot diskette. You can make one from Control Panel -
Add/Remove Programs - Start disk tab. You can make one on someone Else's system if
necessary.
Second, you need to try to boot into Safe Mode if you can. (hold Ctrl key while
booting before the splash screen).
I assume you can boot some way (diskette to DOS, or Safe Mode) because you indicated
you installed video drivers to fix the video screen size problem.
Boot system and locate your System *.CAB files. They are in the C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\INSTALL
(or \CABS) folder. If they are still there (there are 25 of them), they contain compressed
copies of all Windows ME files necessary to replace/rebuild Windows ME. There should
also be a copy of SETUP.exe in the folder. Run it. This is the Windows ME
install SETUP program. It will allow you to run an install of Windows, just like
from the CD, just faster. You will need to know your ProductKey number. It
should be on your install CD package, or you can locate it in your Registry by searching
for "ProductKey". This should rebuild Windows ME.
You will have to go to the Windows UpDate site to update
all the fixes and security updates again.
Note: the problem installing with your CD is most likely a dirty or damaged CD
or a drive that is having read errors. The "CD file system" software that loads
as part of the SETUP/install program does not have much "error recovery" code in
it and almost any soft read error causes the install process to crash. If your system
CAB files are gone, you can create a temporary install folder on the disk and copy
all of the files in the Win9x folder on the CD into the temporary folder on the
disk drive. Then run the SETUP from this temporary folder (so you don't get CD read
errors).
- Written in response to:
- re: Windows ME major problem (Jallal: Friday, June 13, 2003 at 1:51 am)
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