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Setup needs more conventional memory
Hello,
I am trying to upgrade from win 98se to win Me, but when setup starts it errors saying that it needs more conventional memory to check the hard dish space. I tried removing everything from msconfig and start in safe mode and adding rem to everything in autoexec.bat and config.sys and I get the same error. Then, the setup.txt file on the cd said that setup could run from dos, so I successfully got the PC to start in dos with a boot disk and it even had cdrom access but trying to run setup errored out saying that windows was needed to run setup!!!! Any ideas anyone? thanks. |
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Begin by confirming that you have ca. 500 MB of free space on C:\.
Run Disk Cleanup followed by Defragmenter on C: to make a large chunk of free space available for the OS upgrade temporary files. Restore your original config.sys and autoexec.bat files. Run the upgrade in Windows. Suggestions for Preparing to Install WINDOWS MILLENNIUM EDITION as an UPGRADE Revised January 3, 2004 by Gary Woodruff © 2001-2004 by Author, All Rights Reserved http://aumha.org/win4/a/meupgrad.htm -- Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ "Bertrand" wrote in message ... Hello, I am trying to upgrade from win 98se to win Me, but when setup starts it errors saying that it needs more conventional memory to check the hard dish space. I tried removing everything from msconfig and start in safe mode and adding rem to everything in autoexec.bat and config.sys and I get the same error. Then, the setup.txt file on the cd said that setup could run from dos, so I successfully got the PC to start in dos with a boot disk and it even had cdrom access but trying to run setup errored out saying that windows was needed to run setup!!!! Any ideas anyone? thanks. |
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