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me installation
Name: Jim Date: April 29, 2002 at 06:19:32 Pacific
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system: amd 1.4, asus a7v266 mb, 256m ddr , 40 gig maxtor 7200 ata100, abit geforce2 64m video: had problems with BSOD, ended up fdisk and reformatting drive, now after booting from a win98 startup floppy, and trying to run window ME setup from CD, i get the scandisk with no error, it returns to the dos screen saying scaning registry, copy files needed for setup and then returns to the dos prompt. anyone ever see this?
Name: wawadave Date: April 29, 2002 at 09:05:33 Pacific
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hello if its reading registry than there must still be a system. try from boot disk to goto sys c: it should not goto c: if you formated it.how many partions did you have? sure you got the right one with format?
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Response Number 2
Name: Jim Date: April 29, 2002 at 09:50:12 Pacific
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I fdisk and formatted the HD into 2 20G partitions usiing the Maxtor maxblast util. both partitions are formatted and have no files when doing a 'dir'.
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Response Number 3
Name: newgrl Date: April 29, 2002 at 10:10:36 Pacific
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ME hates Drive overlays. Is there a reason you are using the MaxBlast software... i.e: your motherboard will not recognize the 40GB hard drive without it?
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Response Number 4
Name: Jim Date: April 29, 2002 at 10:45:35 Pacific
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The MB is asus a7v266, got it in Sept '01
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Response Number 5
Name: Dave T2 Date: April 29, 2002 at 10:53:13 Pacific
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Try booting from an ME boot disk rather than a 98.
Dave T2
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Response Number 6
Name: Jim Date: April 29, 2002 at 11:04:05 Pacific
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Just made a ME bootdisk, gonna give it a try when I get home.
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Response Number 7
Name: newgrl Date: April 29, 2002 at 11:54:22 Pacific
Summary: My computer keeps powering itself down during the first software-triggered restart during a clean Windows Me install. The machine is a Dell Dimension 4100. As such, the install cannot complete. ...
Summary: How do I format the hard disk that i have ME installed on?? Dos don't want to know and you can't format a disk that is in use ie running windows I can't see how to do it please help !!!!...
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