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Old April 20th, 2004, 07:33 AM
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I had the intention of formatting WINME and installing XP. I used a win95floppy to boot, typed format c:, and then rebooted with the floppy. it shows "runtime error 200", and will not recognize the cd drive d: or anything other than the c drive and the a drive. so i cant runt he xp disc or even reinstall winme. im a little worried i may have done irreversable damage. i have no idea what to do now.
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Old April 20th, 2004, 07:54 AM
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Hi brian ss - the Win95 bootdisk does not have CD ROM support. Try the Win98SE or WinME boot disk from here
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Old April 20th, 2004, 07:58 AM
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so all i need to do is take this disk, put it in and reboot and i should be able to load the new os?
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Old April 20th, 2004, 08:04 AM
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made the disk and put it in but it said invalid disk error, hit any key to continue, whats next?
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Old April 20th, 2004, 08:07 AM
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Hi brian, not quite. Download the file to your PC and put a fresh floppy in your drive. Doubleclick on the downloaded file to create a boot disk and follow any prompts. Once you have done this, you should be able to boot with it.
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Old April 20th, 2004, 08:08 AM
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Did you follow the instructions that I have just posted?
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Old April 20th, 2004, 08:09 AM
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whoops let me try that again
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Old April 20th, 2004, 08:12 AM
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lol
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Old April 20th, 2004, 08:44 AM
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no more fresh disks, had to run to walmart at 1 am
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Old April 20th, 2004, 09:14 AM
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Sorry Brian, a floppy wiped of data would do. We havent heard back so I guess your installation is proceeding.
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Old April 20th, 2004, 09:20 AM
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well the start up disk was a success

but my instructions were to change to d:
then cd\i386
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but when i enter cd\i386 it says bad command
so now im stuck again
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Old April 20th, 2004, 09:21 AM
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i tried to wipe three floppys and they all had errors when writing, i needed some new ones anyway
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Old April 20th, 2004, 09:25 AM
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What CD are you installing the OS from?
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Old April 20th, 2004, 09:26 AM
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win xp home edition
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Old April 20th, 2004, 09:40 AM
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does it matter that its a disk from dell?
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