booting a computer

[Fred]

This is probably a stupid question but I have an older
Toshiba laptop with windows ME. It stopped working and I
got a new HP desktop computer with windows XP. My brother
wants the old one but the windows ME won't boot and I no
longer can find the disks I had to boot it with. Can I use
the backup disks for the windows XP to erase and/or boot
the windows ME on the Toshiba ? Or is there a way to do it
without a recovery disk ? Thanks !!
Fred

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

No, Windows XP backup disks cannot be used to boot-up a
non-bootable PC with Windows ME installed.
Visit www.bootdisk.com

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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"Fred" > wrote in message:
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| This is probably a stupid question but I have an older
| Toshiba laptop with windows ME. It stopped working and I
| got a new HP desktop computer with windows XP. My brother
| wants the old one but the windows ME won't boot and I no
| longer can find the disks I had to boot it with. Can I use
| the backup disks for the windows XP to erase and/or boot
| the windows ME on the Toshiba ? Or is there a way to do it
| without a recovery disk ? Thanks !!
| Fred