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[Toni]

I need to reinstall Winme

I have both my compaq recovery disk and my OEM Win Me
disk. When I use compaq recovery disk it just keep
saying "your system is now ready to restart" and it does
this over and over again. I made a boot disk form other
pc and ran scan disk..no problem were found..couldn't run
scanreg. I reformatted the c: drive because nothing was
really there...now when I try to boot cd with win me cd
it just says..Operating System Not Found. Does anyone
know how i can do a clean install or just install win me
period?

[Noel Paton]

Toni
Most Win ME CD's are not bootable - which explains why your system won't
boot<g>
Boot with the floppy, (using 'with CD Support') and p;ut he Win ME CD in the
drive - type Setup - if it comes back 'not found' try this at the A: prompt

E:
Setup

that should get you started.

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

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"Toni" > wrote in message
...
> I need to reinstall Winme
>
> I have both my compaq recovery disk and my OEM Win Me
> disk. When I use compaq recovery disk it just keep
> saying "your system is now ready to restart" and it does
> this over and over again. I made a boot disk form other
> pc and ran scan disk..no problem were found..couldn't run
> scanreg. I reformatted the c: drive because nothing was
> really there...now when I try to boot cd with win me cd
> it just says..Operating System Not Found. Does anyone
> know how i can do a clean install or just install win me
> period?

Oh..how do i do this with the swappable cd/floppy drives
that com with the Compaq Presario Notebooks? I tried
booting with CD support and it says "no drive found". I
can't have both drives at the same time.

Thanks
>-----Original Message-----
>Toni
>Most Win ME CD's are not bootable - which explains why
your system won't
>boot<g>
>Boot with the floppy, (using 'with CD Support') and p;ut
he Win ME CD in the
>drive - type Setup - if it comes back 'not found' try
this at the A: prompt
>
>E:
>Setup
>
>that should get you started.
>
>--
>Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)
>
>Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
>http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
>
>Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post
messages to NG's
>or
>http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2001/Mar01/Ma
r27pmvp.asp
>"Toni" > wrote in
message
...
>> I need to reinstall Winme
>>
>> I have both my compaq recovery disk and my OEM Win Me
>> disk. When I use compaq recovery disk it just keep
>> saying "your system is now ready to restart" and it
does
>> this over and over again. I made a boot disk form
other
>> pc and ran scan disk..no problem were found..couldn't
run
>> scanreg. I reformatted the c: drive because nothing
was
>> really there...now when I try to boot cd with win me cd
>> it just says..Operating System Not Found. Does anyone
>> know how i can do a clean install or just install win
me
>> period?
>
>
>.
>

[Noel Paton]

Oh lord!

Try booting with your Recovery CD - see if that does the same thing

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's
or
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2001/Mar01/Mar27pmvp.asp
> wrote in message
...
> Oh..how do i do this with the swappable cd/floppy drives
> that com with the Compaq Presario Notebooks? I tried
> booting with CD support and it says "no drive found". I
> can't have both drives at the same time.
>
> Thanks
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Toni
> >Most Win ME CD's are not bootable - which explains why
> your system won't
> >boot<g>
> >Boot with the floppy, (using 'with CD Support') and p;ut
> he Win ME CD in the
> >drive - type Setup - if it comes back 'not found' try
> this at the A: prompt
> >
> >E:
> >Setup
> >
> >that should get you started.
> >
> >--
> >Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)
> >
> >Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
> >http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
> >
> >Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post
> messages to NG's
> >or
> >http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2001/Mar01/Ma
> r27pmvp.asp
> >"Toni" > wrote in
> message
> ...
> >> I need to reinstall Winme
> >>
> >> I have both my compaq recovery disk and my OEM Win Me
> >> disk. When I use compaq recovery disk it just keep
> >> saying "your system is now ready to restart" and it
> does
> >> this over and over again. I made a boot disk form
> other
> >> pc and ran scan disk..no problem were found..couldn't
> run
> >> scanreg. I reformatted the c: drive because nothing
> was
> >> really there...now when I try to boot cd with win me cd
> >> it just says..Operating System Not Found. Does anyone
> >> know how i can do a clean install or just install win
> me
> >> period?
> >
> >
> >.
> >