Hey guys, hoping you can give me a hand.. Today I decided I wanted to ditch my old 2k and set up a dual me/2k boot, so I start backing stuff up and formatting away. Now I know to install winme first, so I jam in the cd, set it up to autoboot, and let her take off. Everything looks fine, then when you first see the gui and it starts to copy over the system files, it freezes at 100% and just sits there.. mouse movement there, just the "busy" icon, no keyboard at all. So I figure maybe my winme cd is messed up, so I give win98 a shot too, freezes at EXACTLY the same spot. Its an old athlon750 with a k7v, 640 megs of ram, ati radeon LE (actually I think thats the only new peice of hardware since I've run 9x) Any ideas? THANKS!

If you have a BIOS antivirus program, turn it off for the install. I believe the A7V does. You can also try creating a flat of WinME or Win98 and installing from the hard drive. To do this: Boot with a 98 or ME bootdisk. Choose With cd rom support. From the a:\> prompt type each of these commands and press enter after each one: c: md flat cd flat copy z:\win9x (replace "z" with your cd rom drive letter in DOS) Let it copy over... then: cd win9x setup That should start setup from the hard drive. Did you use Partition Magic or any other partitioning utilities to split your hard drive into two partitions? Or just Fdisk?

Well I did turn off the bios antivirus stuff, and I fdisk'd it up, but I was originally using partitions that were already there (3 10 gigs on a 30), I guess I'll try the harddrive install method, I know the cd is good, I just installed it in vmware a few days ago.. Thanks!

650meg of ram is too much for windows to install with. cut that down to half or less and put it back after the installation. you will have to play with the vcache settings in windows to get it to use 650meg as win only likes up to 512meg.