formating

[Guest falcon1643106@yahoo.com]

iv got an older e machine (etower 333k). The operating system that

came with it was ME the first hard drive crashed. i have an older 20

gig hard drive im putting in but it tells me to run a floppy boot

disk. i don't have one i do have a dos floppy i run it but it does not

show the hard drive now in bios it shows just fine. How do i get it to

show in dos so i can formate and install???

[Guest Ingeborg]

Re: formating

 

falcon1643106@yahoo.com wrote:

> iv got an older e machine (etower 333k). The operating system that

> came with it was ME the first hard drive crashed. i have an older 20

> gig hard drive im putting in but it tells me to run a floppy boot

> disk. i don't have one i do have a dos floppy i run it but it does not

> show the hard drive now in bios it shows just fine. How do i get it to

> show in dos so i can formate and install???

 

With WinME you should be able to boot from CD and just follow the

instructions.

 

When you want to do it with a dos floppy you'll have to use FDISK to create

a primary partition, activate it, then reboot (from floppy) and use FORMAT

C: to format that partition, and then use SYS C: to make the harddisk

bootable.

[Guest Gary S. Terhune]

Re: formating

 

You are in the wrong group. You want the ME newsgroups.

microsoft.public.windowsme.general

microsoft.public.windowsme.setup

 

You can get an ME boot disk from http://www.bootdisk.com

 

--

Gary S. Terhune

MS-MVP Shell/User

http://www.grystmill.com

 

<falcon1643106@yahoo.com> wrote in message

news:c5571e5d-545b-412c-9e5f-c3b704da2de8@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...

> iv got an older e machine (etower 333k). The operating system that

> came with it was ME the first hard drive crashed. i have an older 20

> gig hard drive im putting in but it tells me to run a floppy boot

> disk. i don't have one i do have a dos floppy i run it but it does not

> show the hard drive now in bios it shows just fine. How do i get it to

> show in dos so i can formate and install???

[Guest Gary S. Terhune]

Re: formating

 

Windows ME setup includes partitioning and formatting tools like XP? I

didn't know that. Good thing I'm flattening a box this morning. I can test,

<eg>.

 

--

Gary S. Terhune

MS-MVP Shell/User

http://www.grystmill.com

 

"Ingeborg" <a@b.invalid> wrote in message

news:Xns9AAC9027BAD56abinvalid@217.21.244.90...

> falcon1643106@yahoo.com wrote:

>

>> iv got an older e machine (etower 333k). The operating system that

>> came with it was ME the first hard drive crashed. i have an older 20

>> gig hard drive im putting in but it tells me to run a floppy boot

>> disk. i don't have one i do have a dos floppy i run it but it does not

>> show the hard drive now in bios it shows just fine. How do i get it to

>> show in dos so i can formate and install???

>

> With WinME you should be able to boot from CD and just follow the

> instructions.

>

> When you want to do it with a dos floppy you'll have to use FDISK to

> create

> a primary partition, activate it, then reboot (from floppy) and use FORMAT

> C: to format that partition, and then use SYS C: to make the harddisk

> bootable.

[Guest falcon1643106@yahoo.com]

Re: formating

 

On May 28, 12:44 pm, "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote:

> You are in the wrong group. You want the ME newsgroups.

> microsoft.public.windowsme.general

> microsoft.public.windowsme.setup

>

> You can get an ME boot disk fromwww.bootdisk.com

>

> --

> Gary S. Terhune

> MS-MVP Shell/Userwww.grystmill.com

>

> <falcon1643...@yahoo.com> wrote in message

>

> news:c5571e5d-545b-412c-9e5f-c3b704da2de8@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...

>

> > iv got an older e machine (etower 333k). The operating system that

> > came with it was ME the first hard drive crashed. i have an older 20

> > gig hard drive im putting in but it tells me to run a floppy boot

> > disk. i don't have one i do have a dos floppy i run it but it does not

> > show the hard drive now in bios it shows just fine. How do i get it to

> > show in dos so i can formate and install???

 

i do apologize if im in the wrong group but this was the only one that

had any thing close to my problem. Also to get a little in depth my

cd rom will not work and in dos it will not show the c drive all i get

when i try is invalid drive specification any ideas??

[Guest Gary S. Terhune]

Re: formating

 

Yes, I have ideas, and at the moment they all have to do with broken or

disconnected hardware. But I'm not going to go any farther.

 

Please, FOR YOUR OWN GOOD!!!!, go use the newsgroups I listed. Getting

advice here is dangerous. Yes, what you ask about is probably something we

could guide you through trouble-shooting, but we'd forget that we're talking

about ME (or some folks don't know ME at all), and the discussion will

wander and we'll inevitably forget that we're talking about ME and suggest

things that are all wrong for your system.

 

Plus, you're going at it all backwards when you ask for our help. These

things you include in your second post are VERY important hints as to what

might be wrong with your system, and you already knew that, or should have.

When asking for assistance in these groups, explain the WHOLE picture. For

instance, is this a machine you just picked up, or one you've been using

that just went on the blink. What have you been doing to the machine that

might have messed it up? Adding hardware, adding software, running some kind

of utility that promised to fix your machine, what? That kind of knowledge

is CRITICAL.

 

--

Gary S. Terhune

MS-MVP Shell/User

http://www.grystmill.com

 

<falcon1643106@yahoo.com> wrote in message

news:5e89aabd-4e1f-43c3-8772-1fd24b988d23@m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...

> On May 28, 12:44 pm, "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote:

>> You are in the wrong group. You want the ME newsgroups.

>> microsoft.public.windowsme.general

>> microsoft.public.windowsme.setup

>>

>> You can get an ME boot disk fromwww.bootdisk.com

>>

>> --

>> Gary S. Terhune

>> MS-MVP Shell/Userwww.grystmill.com

>>

>> <falcon1643...@yahoo.com> wrote in message

>>

>> news:c5571e5d-545b-412c-9e5f-c3b704da2de8@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...

>>

>> > iv got an older e machine (etower 333k). The operating system that

>> > came with it was ME the first hard drive crashed. i have an older 20

>> > gig hard drive im putting in but it tells me to run a floppy boot

>> > disk. i don't have one i do have a dos floppy i run it but it does not

>> > show the hard drive now in bios it shows just fine. How do i get it to

>> > show in dos so i can formate and install???

>

> i do apologize if im in the wrong group but this was the only one that

> had any thing close to my problem. Also to get a little in depth my

> cd rom will not work and in dos it will not show the c drive all i get

> when i try is invalid drive specification any ideas??

[Guest Gary S. Terhune]

Re: formating

 

OK, I've looked it up, mostly here,

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=17, and it appears as I thought --

that ME is just like all other 9x systems. Only OEM versions are bootable,

and even then, I don't believe that is true for all Win98 or Win98SE OEM

discs. And I've found reference that suggests that the ME OEM CD is capable

of wiping and reformatting (or even repartitioning) the first hard drive if

no existing ME OS is present. Which is something that would really piss me

off, since I seldom install anything to an empty hard drive.

http://theosfiles.com/os_windows/ospg_wme.htm

 

--

Gary S. Terhune

MS-MVP Shell/User

http://www.grystmill.com

 

http://theosfiles.com/os_windows/ospg_wme.htm

"Ingeborg" <a@b.invalid> wrote in message

news:Xns9AAC9027BAD56abinvalid@217.21.244.90...

> falcon1643106@yahoo.com wrote:

>

>> iv got an older e machine (etower 333k). The operating system that

>> came with it was ME the first hard drive crashed. i have an older 20

>> gig hard drive im putting in but it tells me to run a floppy boot

>> disk. i don't have one i do have a dos floppy i run it but it does not

>> show the hard drive now in bios it shows just fine. How do i get it to

>> show in dos so i can formate and install???

>

> With WinME you should be able to boot from CD and just follow the

> instructions.

>

> When you want to do it with a dos floppy you'll have to use FDISK to

> create

> a primary partition, activate it, then reboot (from floppy) and use FORMAT

> C: to format that partition, and then use SYS C: to make the harddisk

> bootable.

[Guest Ben Myers]

Re: formating

 

<falcon1643106@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:c5571e5d-545b-412c-9e5f-c3b704da2de8@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...

> iv got an older e machine (etower 333k). The operating system that

> came with it was ME the first hard drive crashed. i have an older 20

> gig hard drive im putting in but it tells me to run a floppy boot

> disk. i don't have one i do have a dos floppy i run it but it does not

> show the hard drive now in bios it shows just fine. How do i get it to

> show in dos so i can formate and install???

 

Most hard drive manufacturers have installation software available for

download.

 

Maxtor and Seagate http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/

Western Digital http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=999&swid=1

 

If you need to access your CD drive in DOS, see

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

 

Ben

[Guest Ingeborg]

Re: formating

 

Gary S. Terhune wrote:

> OK, I've looked it up, mostly here,

> http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=17, and it appears as I

> thought -- that ME is just like all other 9x systems. Only OEM

> versions are bootable, and even then, I don't believe that is true for

> all Win98 or Win98SE OEM discs. And I've found reference that suggests

> that the ME OEM CD is capable of wiping and reformatting (or even

> repartitioning) the first hard drive if no existing ME OS is present.

> Which is something that would really piss me off, since I seldom

> install anything to an empty hard drive.

> http://theosfiles.com/os_windows/ospg_wme.htm

>

 

From my experience auto-installing WinME from a bootable CD will wipe the

entire disk. (Actually I only did it twice, once on an empty disk, and once

on a used disk, containing a NTFS partition. Both times it was pretty

straightforward). This seems no problem for the OP, since he wanted to

reformat anyway. However, I didn't know not all ME CD's are bootable.

[Guest puddin]

Re: formating

 

 

And I've found reference that suggests that the ME OEM CD is capable

> of wiping and reformatting (or even repartitioning) the first hard drive if

> no existing ME OS is present. Which is something that would really piss me

> off, since I seldom install anything to an empty hard drive.

 

so, exzactly what would you do with an emptee drive,,,,, toss it inna bin?

(wouldnt mind coming 'round your 'ouse once a week to see what i can get outta your bin.....

sounds lika gold mine.)

> http://theosfiles.com/os_windows/ospg_wme.htm

>

> --

> Gary S. Terhune

> MS-MVP Shell/User

[Guest Gary S. Terhune]

Re: formating

 

GFY, Weasel.

 

--

Gary S. Terhune

MS-MVP Shell/User

http://www.grystmill.com

 

"puddin" <pie@yourksheeeeer.com> wrote in message

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>

> And I've found reference that suggests that the ME OEM CD is capable

>> of wiping and reformatting (or even repartitioning) the first hard drive

>> if

>> no existing ME OS is present. Which is something that would really piss

>> me

>> off, since I seldom install anything to an empty hard drive.

>

> so, exzactly what would you do with an emptee drive,,,,, toss it inna

> bin?

> (wouldnt mind coming 'round your 'ouse once a week to see what i can get

> outta your bin.....

> sounds lika gold mine.)

>> http://theosfiles.com/os_windows/ospg_wme.htm

>>

>> --

>> Gary S. Terhune

>> MS-MVP Shell/User

>

>

[Guest puddin]

Re: formating

 

 

"Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message news:#vSg$5AxIHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

> GFY, Weasel.

 

hello,,,, what does 'gfy' stand for...? something to do with m/s?

something to do with their reps? got me stumped.

>

> --

> Gary S. Terhune

> MS-MVP Shell/User

[Guest Gary S. Terhune]

Re: formating

 

Sorry, can't fix stupidity.

 

--

Gary S. Terhune

MS-MVP Shell/User

http://www.grystmill.com

 

"puddin" <pie@yourksheeeeer.com> wrote in message

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>

> "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message

> news:#vSg$5AxIHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

>> GFY, Weasel.

>

> hello,,,, what does 'gfy' stand for...? something to do with m/s?

> something to do with their reps? got me stumped.

>

>>

>> --

>> Gary S. Terhune

>> MS-MVP Shell/User

>

>

>