WIN ME

[ZAKER]

MY PC HAS WORKS OFFICE 2000 AND WINDOWS XP. WHEN I INSERTED THE WIN ME CD IT PROMPTED ME TO EITHER INSTALL WINDOW 95 OR 98 FIRST , OR RUN SETUP FROM MS-DOM COMMAND PROMT IN ORDER TO ADD THE WIN ME. I FOUND THE COMMAND PROMPT BUT I DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO WRITE IN IT. ANY HELP PLEASE

ZAKER

[sairakanwal]

'win me' wants u to 'write' SETUP in command prompt )

. saira .

[jbladeus]

hi zaker

There are several issues involved here.

First of all, why do u need to install and older version of windoes (ie. Me) when you already have the newer versions installed (2k, XP)?

The other issue/problem is that since you have 2k/XP installed, chances are that your hard drives have been converted to NTFS (a better file management system) rather than FAT32 (an archaic, legacy system from the DOS/Win95/98 days). The problem is that older operating systems like Win98 or Me cannot be installed on NTFS drives. It means that if you insist on installing WinME then you'll have to reformat your hard drive to the older system and you will lose all your data including this installation of WinXP.

If your hard drive is Fat32 and you dont have an old OS like DOS/Win98 etc already installed and u still insist on installing WinMe <img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>, you will have to boot from either a floppy drive or from a bootable a CD-Rom. After booting from these devices, go to your CD drive by entering "x" and pressing enter on the command prompt (x being the letter of you CD-Rom drive). Insert the WinMe CD and write "Setup" and press enter. Voila!!

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[CBPian]

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial" id=quote>quote<hr height=1 noshade id=quote> First of all, why do u need to install and older version of windoes (ie. Me) when you already have the newer versions installed (2k, XP)? <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial" size=2 id=quote>

well said!!... u can run anything/everything that runs on win 95 onwards on XP...
...just dont do it )