WinME

Lenny

ok I've got windows ME,
used for gaming ... but my hd is be comming fragimented as I can feel it
when I try to use the windows default one, I have errors on it, due to win crashing so many times ...
I run scandisk in windows, but it can't scan because something keeps writing to the drive I've closed down everything ecept explorer and systray and I still get the problem
as there is no option in winME to reboot into dos and scandisk from there
would anyone know how I would be able to get into dos without loading windows first in winme so I can run scadisk for dos ?

SantaHoe

Humm... see if you've got a boot disk from an older win98 install.
Otherwise AFAIK, you can use a winME boot disk and strip the non-essentials off it, should do the same job (according to PCW anyway ).

Vincent

Most computers u press F8, then u get a list of options, one of them is command promt ie dos

SantaHoe

Hum, to the best of my knowledge WinME doesn't like you going into real-mode dos, so I fink that option is gone.

bubbles

Boot up with a bootdisk.

Kegser

Yea, goddamn ME and it's "No DOS" ****e.

Enygma

I had a similar problem with ME and after trying everything I could think of I just said to hell with it and formatted it. Now dual-booting W2K and SuSE.

Best thing I've ever done. W2K is nice and stable and plays all my games and I can get my work done on Linux.

My advice would be to either go back to 98/5 or get yourself a copy of 2000.
ME is seriously the biggest piece of cack ever made. Dangerously unstable, a total RAM hog and if I'm not mistaken the *exact* same as 98 except for the start up screen.

Anyone who's thinking about upgrading(sic ) my advice would be to forget it. Stick with what you have or go for 2000.

Of course that's just MHO

kayos

As far as I remember with ME there is an issue with either scan disk or defrag which was fixed in a update. If you want to do a clean but read here
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q267/2/88.asp

worth a try

logic1

http://www.overclockers.com.au/techstuff/a_dos_me/

There you go.

.logic.

Lenny

thanks logic and Kayos
the f8 doens't work
but I will hvae a look at your two links guys
btw I remember it doing an autoupdate and fixing I pritty sure it was disk defrag

yossarin

from that boot menu choose booting in "safe mode" - to get it press ctrl while starting up. safe mode loads and you can run scandisk from there

El_Presidente

Win 2k all the way for me.

I installed a duel boot with 98 because I thought it would be better for games but NAY!

I havent used 98 for more then 10 minutes since I installed 2000. It runs all the games I want and goes weeks without a crash.

You can keep your toy OS.

WhiteWashMan

install win2k mate.
its just a whole lot easier....