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If I make a boot disk using XP pack 2 will I be able to use it on my
other machine that is running ME? I can't boot up the machine that has ME. I want to try and get it running so I can copy and transfer some files. |
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Hi blarney,
Yes, you can use a computer running XP SP2 to make a boot disk for ME........it would probably be best if you d/load the file to create a Windows ME startup floppy disk: http://bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm Click on the link for either Windows ME OEM or Windows ME Custom, No Ramdrive and d/load the file to hard drive (do NOT d/load the file directly to a floppy disk, as this DOES NOT create the startup disk). Once the file has been d/loaded, put a formatted floppy disk in the drive and then double-click on the d/loaded file in order to create the startup disk. Regards, -- Patti MacLeod Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User wrote in message ... If I make a boot disk using XP pack 2 will I be able to use it on my other machine that is running ME? I can't boot up the machine that has ME. I want to try and get it running so I can copy and transfer some files. |
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wrote in message ... If I make a boot disk using XP pack 2 will I be able to use it on my other machine that is running ME? I can't boot up the machine that has ME. I want to try and get it running so I can copy and transfer some files. Yes but the boot disk created on XP is so minimal as to be hardly helpful to you. It only contains the minimal files to boot to command prompt. Patti Mc referred you to www.bootdisk.com which will help you get the makings of a decent Windows Me Startup Disk. However if you have access to a working computer why not remove the drive from your Windows Me system and temporarily connect it to the working system as a Slave drive. Then you can easily copy your files off of it? -- Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User] www.webtree.ca/windowsxp |
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I am attempting to make a Cd, which can be used in a FAT 32 HD, neither
computer has an A drive. No success so far. Any hints? "Harry Ohrn" wrote in message ... wrote in message ... If I make a boot disk using XP pack 2 will I be able to use it on my other machine that is running ME? I can't boot up the machine that has ME. I want to try and get it running so I can copy and transfer some files. Yes but the boot disk created on XP is so minimal as to be hardly helpful to you. It only contains the minimal files to boot to command prompt. Patti Mc referred you to www.bootdisk.com which will help you get the makings of a decent Windows Me Startup Disk. However if you have access to a working computer why not remove the drive from your Windows Me system and temporarily connect it to the working system as a Slave drive. Then you can easily copy your files off of it? -- Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User] www.webtree.ca/windowsxp |
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A great tool for Windows computers is the Universal Boot CD free from
http://www.ubcd4win.com/. -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) wrote in message ... If I make a boot disk using XP pack 2 will I be able to use it on my other machine that is running ME? I can't boot up the machine that has ME. I want to try and get it running so I can copy and transfer some files. |
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Cd's use their own file system, Compact Disk File System (cdfs), and neither
FAT nor NTFS. -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "Happy" wrote in message ... I am attempting to make a Cd, which can be used in a FAT 32 HD, neither computer has an A drive. No success so far. Any hints? "Harry Ohrn" wrote in message ... wrote in message ... If I make a boot disk using XP pack 2 will I be able to use it on my other machine that is running ME? I can't boot up the machine that has ME. I want to try and get it running so I can copy and transfer some files. Yes but the boot disk created on XP is so minimal as to be hardly helpful to you. It only contains the minimal files to boot to command prompt. Patti Mc referred you to www.bootdisk.com which will help you get the makings of a decent Windows Me Startup Disk. However if you have access to a working computer why not remove the drive from your Windows Me system and temporarily connect it to the working system as a Slave drive. Then you can easily copy your files off of it? -- Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User] www.webtree.ca/windowsxp |
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What do you want this CD to do?
-- Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User] www.webtree.ca/windowsxp "Happy" wrote in message ... I am attempting to make a Cd, which can be used in a FAT 32 HD, neither computer has an A drive. No success so far. Any hints? "Harry Ohrn" wrote in message ... wrote in message ... If I make a boot disk using XP pack 2 will I be able to use it on my other machine that is running ME? I can't boot up the machine that has ME. I want to try and get it running so I can copy and transfer some files. Yes but the boot disk created on XP is so minimal as to be hardly helpful to you. It only contains the minimal files to boot to command prompt. Patti Mc referred you to www.bootdisk.com which will help you get the makings of a decent Windows Me Startup Disk. However if you have access to a working computer why not remove the drive from your Windows Me system and temporarily connect it to the working system as a Slave drive. Then you can easily copy your files off of it? -- Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User] www.webtree.ca/windowsxp |
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