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marciacare
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February 22nd, 2004 05:00
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Hi everyone, Okay I got some good results with getting my pc to scandisk and defrag, (Thanks MagicWi) Now to try and find an answer to my operating system. If you read my post you'll know I don't have an operating cd (original cd) to my pc. Long story has to do with grandchildren, anyway I'm trying to figure a way to have some kind of disk that I can count on to reboot me if I run in to problems installing my dsl service. I'm very scared to install this because I need my pc.I've read some posts talking about bootdisk.com and I've checked it out and installed windows me bootme disk on pc and put this info on floppy disk. Now my concern with that is it took 2 floppies , any one know if I did this correct or should it be more floppies? Also a member just told me to look in my C:\windows\options\cab folder and see if I could find windows operating system in those folders. I looked , all I found was a folder similiar to what I'm looking for called SSDP service for Windows Milleninum Operating System. When I click on version it says file name Windows Milleninum Operating System, is this what I'm looking for? Help please suppose to install this dsl service tommorrow!!!
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Posted February 22nd, 2004 16:00
marciacare,
A Windows ME boot disk should take only one floppy diskette. In the absence of a Windows ME CD the only thing that diskette can do for you is boot to DOS. The listing for SSDP is not what would be on your hard disk if the operating system files were present. There would be a folder called "cabs" and it would contain a large number of cabinet (*.cab) files. If anything is required from Windows ME in order to set up DSL (such as adding a network protocol) you will be unable to provide it without an operating system CD. Even if you are able to successfull install DSL you should obtain a copy of Windows ME for the sake of recovery in the event of a system crash.
INTERNET2000
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Posted February 22nd, 2004 15:00
Hello,
Does your computer have the i386 folder in your C: directory?
INTERNET2000