booting problem

[TheMysterio]

hi guys
I have problem in my computer while booting. I have 2 OS. (winxp and winme) . I've installed Winme in D :\ and the xp on C:\. 3 days backI formatted C:\ from d:\ (using winme)and installed win xp. backed up the boot.ini but failed to take the other files..Then after formatting i placed the boot.ini in C:\ and installed xp from ME. the boot menu is having win xp,winme..but after installing winxp i am not able to login into WinMe. it is saying "Invalid Disk please try again" ( not sure abut the message). can anyone help me to restore my WinME

Regards
Mysterio

[war59312]

First of all you may want to install Win98 instead. WinMe is a POS. But anyways this will apply with both.

Everytime you have to reinstall WinXP then your going to have to reinstall WinMe as well.

I've backed up everything once and it still won't work. WindowsXP overides everything. And this kills Windows Me.

Yes I know they say installed WinMe and then WinXP.

That just kills WinMe just like what has happened here with you. Every single time.

So now that you have WinXP working just reinstall winme on D:\

That is from expereince. You can try other shit but you are better of just reinstalling WinMe.

Also, I've been running WinMe and WinXP now together without any problems for four months now. WinXP has never crashed and WinMe crashes all the time. I also have Win98 installed and it crashed about once a month. I don't use it too much.

But anyways just so save time and a major headache just reinstall WinMe.

WinMe does not overide your WinXP settings. I think Microsoft did this on purpse this time around. Most people who dual boot are using an illegal copy of windows, one way or another. I know I am. lol

Not sure about that error message either, but that does sound familar. Same thing I've been talking about.

Just just install WinMe and you should be set.

And no I don't mean format D:\ either. You can if you want but I never do becuase I don't want to lose anything.

Good luck,
Will

[TheMysterio]

hi war59312
Thanks for ure reply. Reinstalling is the last option i had in mind. this really sucks. i had to install ME first and then need to run the WinXp setup again so that i get the WinXP and WinMe on the boot menu

Regards
The Mysterio

[BigHead50]

If you install ME on C drive and XP on D or whatever, besides C, then everything will be fine, you can install XP as many times as you want and will not kill ME....

If you deside to reinstqall ME, you need to back up the files on C that XP puts there or you will have to do a repair on XP to be able to boot again..

the files are (ntldr,boot.ini,ntdetect.com,pagefile.sys,and IO.sys)...

Just copy to a floopy, reinstall ME and recopy to C:....

This works MUCH better than putting ME on D, and XP on C, for me anyway..

I suppose you could copy the ME files off of C, before you reinstall XP, but for me I never use ME much and I reinstall XP ALOT...

the easy way is before you reinstall anything from C drive, COPY all the boot files to a floopy first......

Makes it easy..

SeeYa