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reinstall of ME
Name: jiorgee Date: July 4, 2003 at 11:49:41 Pacific OS: win98 CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
i bought a 2nd hand pc at the weekend with ME installed but decided to do a clean install to delete the previous owners undesirable stuff. i fdisked and formatted then realised that ME was preinstalled and i only had a recovery disc, no install disc. have i lost ME for good or can i get it back somehow?
Name: jim harr Date: July 4, 2003 at 12:43:24 Pacific
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There is sometimes a restore floppy that comes with a recovery disk to read preinstalled Fat12 code on the 1st 3k of the hdd, to activate the recovery disk. If you havent got this it may be difficult to get ME back.
Try fdisk again and make primary dos partition 5mb less than full size of hdd and reformat. check to see if there is any fat12 or fat16 partition on the disk. This has worked for me on 2 occasions with this problem. Then try the recovery disk on its own. Cant take you any further than that.
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Response Number 2
Name: Wolfeymole Date: July 4, 2003 at 12:59:58 Pacific
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Sorry to say this mate but your stuff is history. Once you have formatted then it's gone FOR GOOD except for the people perhaps say in the Defence Dept etc. Just put it down to a mistake, get ME and re-install it if you can. Wolfster PS The recovery disk is only good if you already have the system on the PC.
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Response Number 3
Name: michael2 Date: July 4, 2003 at 15:31:17 Pacific
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http://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/21386.html Response Number 11
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Response Number 4
Name: ShutMeUpOrDown Date: July 6, 2003 at 10:24:01 Pacific
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Did you get the restore disc that came with the PC in question? The one that came with your old PC will not work.. each restore or recovery disc is model specific and will only work with that machine.
If you didnt get the disc with the machine you will need to purchase a new operating system.
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