Installing Windows ME

When i try to install my Windows ME, it give me an error. The message is something like below :-

This driver is provided by Oak Technology Ltd
{some sentence here - could remember because it moves too fast}
"MSCD001"
No drives found
Aborting installation

Could someone help pls?

Thank you

aaron

[-Memnoch-]

Have you partitioned and reformated the hard drive?

Are you using a floppy boot disk during the installation?



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What is an Angel, But a Ghost in drag.

I have not formatted my harddisk. I was trying to see if i can install before i format.

Yes, I'm using a floppy. I read from other website regarding editing the config.sys & autoexec file. Kindly advise

aaron

[TotalRecall]

Formatting will clear everything from your hard disk. So, if you install Window's ME and then format, you are wasting your time.

Here's what I would do:

Use your boot disk to get to the command propmt. (Put the disk in, boot up, and press "1")

Type "fdisk" (No "s) and hit enter.

Select "Y" when ask if you want to enable large disk support. (FAT 32)

Delete the primary and extended partitions.

Make a new primary partition. (You can make the partition the size of the full drive, or only use up some of the space and create an extended partition later.)

If you want to create an extended
partition (usefull for dual booting for OSs, or to make Windows look like it has 2 hds), create the partition and then create a logical partition for the partition you just made. (If I remember this right, the logical partition should come up after you make the extended partition.)

Set your primary partition active. (If you only have 1 primary partition, I don't believe this is required.)

Exit fdisk and reboot.

Press "1" to get back to the command prompt. From here, type "/format c:". You will need to "/format *:" if you have multiple partitions, where * is the drives label.

After the drive (s) have formatted, open up your cd-rom and place the Windows ME installation disk in and reboot.

Now, you can either enable the "boot from cd-rom" feature in the BIOS (which should start the Windows ME installation on boot up), or continue to boot from your floppy and go back to the command prompt. If you are at the command prompt, type "*:", where * is the label for your cd-rom [ie: d:, m:, or e: (usually d: ).

You should be able to type "setup" from the cd-rom command prompt to get the Windows installation moving.

Follow the instructions and have your driver disks handy for when Windows boots up for the first time and asks for them.

That should do the trick, and if you are still having problems, post back here.

PS: Laggy, I may have just wrote a guide for formatting and installing Windows. http://www.opentechsupport.net/forums/smile.gif


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Changes aren't permanent, but change is.

[-Memnoch-]

Unless you have files you need to keep on the c: I would format c: before you install.

If you screwed about with the Boot floppy I would create a new one and put the Format.Exe on it before you start this process.

On all windows 95,98,98se Install CD's in the WindowsXX folder the ms-dos Format.exe is available. Copy that from the CD Rom and put it on the Boot floppy. For whatever reason Format is not on the boot floppys. Then use that floppy to format c:

After you format C: leave the floppy in the drive and insert the WinME CD Rom in the CD Drive and reboot.

As the machine starts up It should ask how you want to start the system.

Select the install option. This should begin the install process.

Post back if you need to.



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What is an Angel, But a Ghost in drag.

[Null Actor]

Aaron, your exact problem is that windows can't load a driver for your cdrom. And if it can't load a driver that way, then it won't be able to install off your cdrom.


You can try either booting from your cdrom (using the bios setting), or copying the cd to your hard drive, and installing from there.

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