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Reinstalling Windows ME?
I wish to reinstall Windows ME only. I do not want to reinstall all of the fluff that came with my dell, it is my understanding that running zztop will set my system back to the factory setup. Does anyone know whether you can use Windows ME reinstallation disk that came with my dell to accoplish this?
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Posted March 25th, 2001 11:00
Thanks Bob.
This look exactly like what I am looking for.
I sent an email to Dell with the same question and his respone was "I can not help you with a minimal intallation. I can however, get you back to original configuration." I wonder why he said that?
eddy272
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Posted March 25th, 2001 11:00
If you have the WinME CD and the Resource CD then following the instructions from the Dell Knowledge Base here will accomplish what you want. A completely restored system without any of the fluff.....
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Posted March 25th, 2001 11:00
One other question? Different topic, but since you seem to be a man of worldly knowledge.
I have 3 kids under 4 years old, all are computer junkies, I created a home page so they can log in to the internet and go directly to sites such as Disney and Nick etc (nothing to do with queston just a proud parent I geuss).
The problem is with thier games on CD. Since I had to replace 3 CD Drive on my last computer due to various mishaps such as drawers being pulled off (twice), stuff stuck in them. I was wondering could I partition my hard drive and do a disk copy from the cd, eliminating the need of the CD whenever they play thier games?
eddy272
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Posted March 25th, 2001 12:00
I'm not sure, let me look around a bit and I'll get back. I think the problem is going to be the fact that many games apparently (I'm not a gamer and don't have kids at home anymore) have 'hard coded' pointers to locations on the CD and I don't know how you'd change that if you 'copied' the CD to a partition on your HDD. Don't take that to the bank however. I'll look around and if I find a good answer I'll post it back here.
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Posted March 25th, 2001 13:00
Hi evarnold,
I've done exactly that on some CD's on this large drive. However, I've had some programs that refused to do that. I've also done it on non-partioned drives, just made a folder (not the same name of program, but a slight variation) and dropped it in there and installed. Some worked, some didn't.
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Posted March 25th, 2001 11:00
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