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Name: Nick
Date: November 26, 2003 at 08:43:16 Pacific
OS: Dos for now
CPU/Ram: i dont know
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I have a compaq presario 1688 notebook, and i want to load ME on it. I followed a tutorial from microsoft, but when it came to formatting the hard drive, i restared the computer, and when it came back on, the screen was blank and there was a blinking cursor on the top left corner of the screen.I have no idea how to fix it.. any help would be greatly appreciated.



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Name: x86
Date: November 26, 2003 at 09:21:02 Pacific
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W98SE OEM download a boot floppy image from www.bootdisk.com.

Boot from floppy with CD drive support and follow the following to format drive:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;255867

When drive has been formatted you will be able to start setup from the ME CD....


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