Hello, I am having some trouble installing ME over XP on a machine in the office where i work. I've been trying to reformat and rid of XP completely with a bootdisk i made from bootdisk.com ... however i keep running into an error saying that it "cannot lock the drive - the volume is still in use". I get this error even when running from the floppy disk... i understand what it is telling me when it says it cannot lock the drive, i just cant find a way around it. my first question is should i be using the ME bootdisk, or XP bootdisks in order to reformat XP. second: the ME installation cd's are supposed to be in today, will i have the option of installing ME right over XP that way? should i just wait? thanks!

My best answers: Question 1: Use eether. Instead get Win98SE bootdisk from www.bootdisk.com. Use it to format to wipe clean the HD. Question 2. Boot to ME to start the installation. i_XpUser

As has been suggested use the Windows 98SE boot disk from bootdisk.com. Cold boot the PC using this disk in the floppy drive and boot to the a:\prompt. If the Win XP installation was using NTFS you will need to use fdisk the c: drive from the floppy from the a:\prompt to delete the non-DOS partition, recreate the DOS partition and format as FAT32 before you can install Windows ME.