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Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?'
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Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?'
Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 7:20 am
Posted by Whoosh!
(2 messages posted)
HI!
I have had lots of trouble since installing my full version of Windows ME, as an
upgrade over W98. In the end, I got completely fed up with it, and took my entire
hard drive out of my PC, put it into my Parents, and reformatted it. I would have
done it in mine, but it wouldn't let me! I probably missed something really inane,
but anyways... I then put it back into mine, but I kept getting the same message;
"Invalid System Disk. Replace disk, and press any key" Was it the Me CD? No. was
it the boot disk I made form my parent's ME? I think not! PLEASE HELP! Even a BSOD
would be nice, becuase at least it gives you some weird code to decipher, instead
of what I am getting now! HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!
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re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?'
Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 10:54 am
Posted by Charlie
(15 messages posted)
I hope you tested your boot floppy in another machine. If you're sure it's a good
bootable floppy your system probably isn't booting from it. Look in your BIOS settings
and see if it's set to boot from A: before C:. The Windows ME CD that came with my
computer is bootable. If your computer can boot from CD try that.
On Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 7:20 am, Whoosh! wrote:
>HI!
>
>I have had lots of trouble since installing my full version of Windows ME, as an
>upgrade over W98. In the end, I got completely fed up with it, and took my entire
>hard drive out of my PC, put it into my Parents, and reformatted it. I would have
>done it in mine, but it wouldn't let me! I probably missed something really inane,
>but anyways... I then put it back into mine, but I kept getting the same message;
>"Invalid System Disk. Replace disk, and press any key" Was it the Me CD? No. was
>it the boot disk I made form my parent's ME? I think not! PLEASE HELP! Even a BSOD
>would be nice, becuase at least it gives you some weird code to decipher, instead
>of what I am getting now! HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>
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re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?'
Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 1:19 pm
Posted by Whoosh!
(2 messages posted)
HI!
thanks for the quick reply!
Yes, I tried that; even adjusted my BIOS to boot from the CD Drive first, but to
no avail! I think the next step may be to replace the BIOS, but I really don't have
a clue how to do that one! Any thoughts? Cheers!
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re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?'
Friday, January 4, 2002 at 8:11 pm
Posted by joker
(7 messages posted)
ok what you could try is setting the first boot option in the bios and from cdrom
then your me disk should install when you then go to install you will have the option
to format then do so by the way make a back up disk when it asks you and also remember
that when its installing and rebooting to go back into the bios and set it to carry
on and continue from hh0 or hhd1 as the first boot option being changed from cdrom
again to your harddrive where hopefully it would have placed all ya windows files
to carry on a blissful install
joker
(ps no joke)
On Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 7:20 am, Whoosh! wrote:
>HI!
>
>I have had lots of trouble since installing my full version of Windows ME, as an
>upgrade over W98. In the end, I got completely fed up with it, and took my entire
>hard drive out of my PC, put it into my Parents, and reformatted it. I would have
>done it in mine, but it wouldn't let me! I probably missed something really inane,
>but anyways... I then put it back into mine, but I kept getting the same message;
>"Invalid System Disk. Replace disk, and press any key" Was it the Me CD? No. was
>it the boot disk I made form my parent's ME? I think not! PLEASE HELP! Even a BSOD
>would be nice, becuase at least it gives you some weird code to decipher, instead
>of what I am getting now! HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>
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re: Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?'
Saturday, January 5, 2002 at 11:47 am
Posted by thomas cummins
(3 messages posted)
if your boot disk isnt working or is it messed up you can always go into the bios
and change to boot from cdrom then from there you can format and reinstall windows
most operating cd's are bootable now days
try booting from your windows cd and make sure you have your boot sequence set right
in the bios
On Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 10:54 am, Charlie wrote:
>I hope you tested your boot floppy in another machine. If you're sure it's a good
>bootable floppy your system probably isn't booting from it. Look in your BIOS settings
>and see if it's set to boot from A: before C:. The Windows ME CD that came with
my
>computer is bootable. If your computer can boot from CD try that.
>
>
>On Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 7:20 am, Whoosh! wrote:
>HI!
>
>I have had lots of trouble since installing my full version of Windows ME, as an
>upgrade over W98. In the end, I got completely fed up with it, and took my entire
>hard drive out of my PC, put it into my Parents, and reformatted it. I would have
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