Need the ME boot disc.

[Guest Desmond]

hello all,can anybody tell me where to get a start up disc for ME.I have the

CD key but have lost the disc etc.Its on my old HP and seems a shame not to

use it.Thankyou

[Guest Mart]

Re: Need the ME boot disc.

 

Already replied to your original post in under the "Reformat Hard Drive"

topic. For your information, I'll re-post it here:-

 

*IF*, .... and that's a big IF, your existing disk (C: drive) has an almost

working copy of WinMe on it AND it contains a folder (e.g.

C:\Windows\Options\Instal or CABS) containing a copy of approx 150Mb worth

of all the installation files required for WinMe AND you are able to copy

and burn those files to mem-stick or CD or some other such media, then you

just *might* be in with a chance.

 

NB - Being an OEM version of WinMe, I'm not sure whether HP were permitted

to allow these files to be installed/copied on their machines. The MS Retail

version of WinMe does.

 

Otherwise search ebay or similar.

 

On the other hand, if you only want to format the drive, that's easy, got to

:-

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

and select the WinMe OEM version, and follow the instructions to make a boot

disk. Then use the DOS format command to format your C: drive.

 

But you'll still need a WinMe installation CD (or at least the files - see

above) to install a fresh installation of WinMe.

 

Mart

 

 

"Desmond" <Desmond@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> hello all,can anybody tell me where to get a start up disc for ME.I have

> the

> CD key but have lost the disc etc.Its on my old HP and seems a shame not

> to

> use it.Thankyou

[Guest Rita]

RE: Need the ME boot disc.

 

Hi Desmond:

You are in luck my friend has the disk but lost the key-please write to me

at rbkkpr2@yahoo.com-

 

"Desmond" wrote:

> hello all,can anybody tell me where to get a start up disc for ME.I have the

> CD key but have lost the disc etc.Its on my old HP and seems a shame not to

> use it.Thankyou