I have an interesting problem that no one else seems to have, and I have read all posts. Whether I boot from the CD and run setup.exe or boot from the floppy with CD suport and run setup from the CD in DOS, the setup process always hangs at the point immediately after running scandisk where Setup reports that it is copying the files nec. for setup. The hard drive has been reformatted, so there is absolutely nothing on it. I talked to a fellow tech, and he suggested trying to install ME from the hard drive itself by making c: a bootable drive, copying all files from the CD to the hard drive, and running setup directly from c:. I am unable to make c: bootable, because ME says that it does not support this feature. The drive seems to be ok, because when I boot from the CD or the floppy, I can see c: with no problem. And I can copy the files from the CD to the c: - all files are present and accounted for. I even tried runing setup from c: and the process stopped at the same point. The same CD was used to install ME on the previous installed hard drive, so I'm pretty sure the CD is fine. 3 questions: 1. Anyone have any suggestions on how to get setup to continue past the point of copying files from the CD for the setup process to continue? 2. How can I make the c: bootable without installing ME? 3. Can I copy the files from the root directory of a different computer system that is successfully running ME directly onto this new HD to make it bootable in the system in question? Other info: Intel Celeron 266, 128MB RAM Thanks in advance!

Have you disabled Boot Sector Virus Protection in the BIOS ? Setup won't continue if this is enabled.

Insert Windows start-up disk, start computer, choose without CD rom support, at A:> prompt type " dir C: " (if C is the drive you wish to format) if the drive is empty you should see "Invalid media .....Abort, Retry, Fail?" Press A to abort type " format C: " press enter, and then Y to confirm it. This worked for me when I thought the drive was empty, and setup would hang.

after formatting, with the ME startup disk loaded type sys c: and it will transfer the system files to c: and it is bootable.

guru - You can't sys any disk that does not already contain an operating system with ME (bootdisk or otherwise). If you try it will return an error and direct you to see the control panel... for some weird reason. It is not necessary to make the drive bootable though. Boot with the bootdisk. Format c: Then make a new directory, copy over the win9x folder and run setup.exe found there... do this all from the bootdisk. md flats copy e:\win9x c:\flats cd flats cd win9x setup It should start setup... from the hard drive, not the cd rom. If you really want to make the hard drive bootable... you can sys c: with a 98 bootdisk.