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Reformat hard disk - reinstall ME
Name: Lisa Date: October 5, 2001 at 09:22:00 Pacific
Comment:
ok - Pentium 4, 1.5 ghz Dell Dimension 4300 - had serious freeze, error messages galore with Windows ME. Decided to reformat my hard disk and reinstall ME. Did the a: format c: and answered yes to clear the drive, however upon reinstalling the program I am getting the blue screen: An exception has occurred at 0028:C00610CD in VxD VNETBIOS(01)+00000B8D. This was called from 0028:C023F58D in VxD VMM(0c)+0000058B. It may be possible to continue normally (ha). Can't get passed this screen and have to physically turn off the machine. Won't allow me to Ctrl Alt Del. Is there a possibility that the virus software is still lerking in the drive somewhere?
Name: jimi_l Date: October 5, 2001 at 15:25:27 Pacific
Reply:
http://www.startdisk.com/Web2/ubd/ubd.htm
Download this freware and use it to make a "ultimate boot disk".It has boot sector virus support as well as MANY other neat features.One of which being a format and install routine that is absolutly fool proof. jimi_l
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Response Number 2
Name: Terry Date: October 5, 2001 at 16:56:51 Pacific
Summary: hi, my XP machine recently suffered a corrupt OS and wheneva i try to reinstall the OS it crashes so i decided to install the hard disk as a second disk on my ME machine and copy vital files before re...
Summary: had that snag with IE6 and need to reinstall ME from DOS -- can't get anywhere near windows. followed the directions here to reinstall ME over itself: http://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum...
Summary: hello whats roung with m.e? cant you just fix the problems rather than reformat?you can do a dirty reinstall of m.e ontop of its self it might cause more problems.a reformat gives the best install.as...
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