win me boot

[flex22]

what is the trick to get me to boot from the cd.
I can't get a floppy to load from bootdisk.com it get to this piont than stops.

[wonderwrench]

Originally Posted by flex22

what is the trick to get me to boot from the cd.
I can't get a floppy to load from bootdisk.com it get to this piont than stops.

Not all windows 9x-Me disks are bootable. Upgrade disks are not for sure.
If you have a full retail or oem version of Me it may be bootable.
Mine is not but I have seen ones that are.

You need to set the boot order in your bios to enable booting from a floppy or cdrom if not already. I set mine.
First boot device = floppy
Second = cdrom
third = Hard drive

Which file did you down load from bootdisk.com? I down loaded the Me boot disk from the windows Me link not one of the alternative ones and had no problem making the boot disk. Can you give more info?

I myself use a custom win98se boot disk for all 9x-Me installs or disk preparation.
PM me if you like and I'll email it to you.

[wallijonn]

May it's best to create a boot floppy from a working system.

[flex22]

I use the OEM one and the alt1, alt2 none of them worked.

What I had to do was installing 98 and then upgrade to ME.

I know there’s has to be an easier way. When I was installing ME .it offer to make a boot disk hopefully if I have to do it again I will have the right disk.

What will that boot disk do? Will the cd boot or will I have try and manually install it.

Do you do d:\setup to get it going.?

[wonderwrench]

Originally Posted by flex22

I use the OEM one and the alt1, alt2 none of them worked.

What I had to do was installing 98 and then upgrade to ME.

I know there’s has to be an easier way. When I was installing ME .it offer to make a boot disk hopefully if I have to do it again I will have the right disk.

What will that boot disk do? Will the cd boot or will I have try and manually install it.

Do you do d:\setup to get it going.?

How we you able to install 98 but not Me?

Can you now make a boot floppy off bootdisk.com?

I have never had good luck upgrading any version of windows.
It works but some strange things can happen. It's just not a clean install.

Once booted to a floppy with cdrom support change directory to your cd drive. Then type setup then hit enter. Note: the boot disk will take a drive letter bumping your cd drive up one letter. So if your cd drive was D it will be E.