Reformatting

desooperdesooper
edited January 2004 in Science & Tech
I would like a little help, My brother tried to reformat his hard drive and upgrade to Windows ME, This is what happened and what he did. He has his computer turned off, inserts floppy, turned computer on, floppy runs, comes to a prompt, reformat then reinstall windows, Type Y for yes or N for no, he picks Y, hits enter, floppy runs and does several test, say computer has been formatted, then comes to a dos prompt, C:\> FROM HERE WHAT DOES HE DO AND WHAT DOES HE TYPE. Thank you for your help.

Comments

  • madmatmadmat
    edited January 2004
    If his me disk is in the CD drive and he's started the computer with cdrom suport he only needs to type in the word setup and hit enter.
    C:\setup Windows will begin running after doing scandisk which must be allowed to run or setup will exit (never fear, it won't do a surface scan) and from there it'll go into a more normal gui.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Um, D:\setup or E:\setup for CD drive setup run, and use E: for drive letter if you used a Windows Startup floppy as the Startup\Rescue floppy makes a Drive D as RAMDisk(logical 2 MB area of RAM is literally used) with things like format in it and takes up a drive letter. C: is hard drive.... Otherwise, madmat's answer is perfectly correct, and a Windows Startup floppy from 98 or 98 SE can be used for this.

    John.
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Setup.exe /IS

    IS = Ignore scandisk. Doesn't run scandisk when starting the setup.

    Link. Some other switches if anyone needs them.
  • BriltBrilt brooklyn
    edited January 2004
    isn't Win me's cd bootable?
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Maybe...maybe not ;)
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    desooper wrote:
    upgrade to Windows ME

    Isn't this an oxymoron?

    No seriously, If he's going from 98 to ME, I would say just stay with 98 and do a clean install of 98. ME sucks. It's horrible and unstable. Just stick with 98SE.
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Although I agree, there are some people that have actually had good luck with it. Wouldn't hurt to dual boot.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited January 2004
    The probs relating to ME centered on it being the first Win OS to try and use acpi and share IRQ's etc.. meaning tons of hardware was not ready. Tons of hnardware vendors that thought they were ready got bushwahacked sharing IRQ's with cards that were not ready and bio's on MB's that didn't yet know how to implenet ACPI correctly. Crap it took some vendors years to figure it out. I was another who had great luck with ME at the time IF you used approved hardware and drivers only though.

    but wasting more then ten minutes now even thinking about ME is a waste of precious time. Think win2k/win xp if your wanting a "upgrade". ME is a lateral move at best.

    I had a buddy who is a hardware guru guy. A real one not like us knot heads. He designed raid controllers and such and happened to sit on the pci 2.1 design committee I think it was that first implemented ACPI and he kept telling me there was no way in hell it would work with the yahoo's in charge and making the decisions. He was appallled at how some decisions were made and why. Had nothing to do with a clean tight correct design but rather tons of compromises geared to the major players... read "dell", "Ibm" "gateway" "HP" etc... he said there was reams of just garbage introduced to try and cover their crappy old products that couldn't meet the specs... which caused tons of the smaller players to try and change and add stuff to deal with them and their stupid changes too.

    tex
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