re: need to know how to, reinstall windows
Monday, March 16, 2009 at 5:39 am
Posted by Keith Stanier
(1655 messages posted)
DanTheMan wrote:
|C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS
|their seems to be a setup for windows me in there
|so can i put that on my d: drive
Yes.
You can format any drive you want to Daniel. So at the moment you have C: and D:
drives and you don't have the WinME CD? Search eBay I bought my genuine CD for £15.
Or better of get a Win98SE its better then WinME.
Are these drives big enough?
You just use a boot disk (thats if you have a floppy drive) and just format C: If
the CABS folder are on D: then goto D: and run Setup.exe.
Or with Windows still running just copy the CABS folder over to D: I'm not sure it
there are enough files the CABS folder to do a full install.
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re: need to know how to, reinstall windows
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 5:24 am
Posted by Keith Stanier
(1655 messages posted)
DanTheMan wrote:
|the folder is 371mbs can you tell from that?
|and yes both drives are 20 gbs so their big enough
|and the cabs folders are not on D: but i put them their so they dont get formated
|when their on C: drive
Well if the CABS are D: do an experiment to see it it will install onto D: Startup
in DOS goto D:\ and run the Setup.exe and install to D: drive just to see if all
files are available. If it works that format C: and do the same install on C: or
burn all the CAB folders/files to a CD and install from the CD when you have CD Rom
drivers on your bootable floppy disk.
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How to reinstall Windows ME without an installation CD
Sunday, April 12, 2009 at 10:45 am
Posted by Ed
(741 messages posted)
1. HOW TO REINSTALL Windows ME WITHOUT AN INSTALLATION CD
You can reinstall Windows ME even if you have no installation CD, by following the
instructions in this post:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winme/1081893868
This overwrites your Windows folder, i.e. C:\WINDOWS (though not the rest of the
disk), including the Windows Registry, so you will lose all your settings. You will
therefore have to REINSTALL all of your PC's hardware and all of your programs. You
*must* have the original setup disks and CDs to hand in order to do this.
You *must* also have your "product key" (serial number) to hand. The Product Key
is stored (in plain text, unencrypted) in the Windows Registry at -
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
To obtain the product key at the DOS prompt, type the following commands at the C:>
prompt, one command per line, press enter after typing each line -
PATH=A:;C:;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
FIND "ProductKey" C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.DAT > C:\ProductKey.txt
You could make a copy of C:\WINDOWS (e.g. as C:\WINOLD), as a backup, if you have
enough free space on your hard disk. Then if the suggested solution doesn't work
you would have the option to delete the C:\WINDOWS folder and to rename C:\WINOLD
to C:\WINDOWS in order to get back to the state you are currently in, and try a different
solution.
2. USING THE SYSTEM RESTORE CD
If nothing else works, you can reinstall Windows by running the System Restore CD
which came with your computer.
This CD erases everything in the computer. It will DELETE all your files, mp3's,
and settings. It is ESSENTIAL to copy all your files (especially all your work, data
and mp3's) to another disk, BEFORE using this CD.
As you will lose all your settings, you will therefore have to reinstall all of your
PC's hardware and all programs. You *must* have the original setup disks and CDs
to hand in order to do this.
You *must* also have your "product key" (serial number) to hand. The Product Key
is stored (in plain text, unencrypted) in the Windows Registry at -
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
To obtain the product key at the DOS prompt, see above.
Ed
On Monday, March 16, 2009 at 4:45 am, DanTheMan wrote:
>ok i use to have a recovey partition but some thing must have delete it (probloy
>norton ghost)
>so i cant reformat and install windows me
>but i notice in
>C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS
>their seems to be a setup for windows me in there
>so can i put that on my d: drive
>and then go in dos and format my C: drive and then type in the dos thing D:\OPTIONS\CABS\setup.exe
>and install??
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