windows me

i bought a used and old computer for grandkids. HD is formatted but no OS on it. I have a windows me (upgrade), but no standard edit. Needless to say it wont let me load ME w/o previous 98. Can someone tell me if i can do this and how PLEASE?

 

OK, do you have any other boot disks ...me 98 or even earlier dos? You can boot up, access the i386 folder on the cd and run winnt.exe from there.

let me know what you have, so I can give you a better walk through

 

LOL if you have the Windows 98 go with it, even M$ admits ME was a huge mistake.

 

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

should help him out.

 

yep you would have to save it then copy to a floppy, I believe either one will work for him and no bigger then they can be grab both, but personally I think the Win98 would be his best bet to use the ME upgrade that he has.

 

As we haven't heard from the OP in 18 days either he has solved this or just given up I would think But as I'm currently under orders to rest, and so a bit bored, and have a ME upgrade disk, and also have an old PC I could use, I'll see if I can work out a method for him.

The first problem I guess will be not having a floppy drive on the PC he's using to download the boot disk file.

 

@DAKz

DAKz, I've booted my old PC with a Win 98 boot disk with CD support and I'm looking at the contents of the ME upgrade CD. Basically there's just a setup.exe and a load of CAB files. There is no i386 folder on the CD, that is created on the hard disk during setup.

So tell me what it is you believe can be done now to install ME and avoid the validation and I'll try it.