Need help installing Win ME over Win 2k

[Maverick]

Hi there,
I recently messed up my win2k setup by trying to get ACPI to work. I'm fed up with win2k since its such a system hog and I'm deciding to go ahead and try Windows ME since I play so many games. I need to find a way to get my favorites and outlook messages and then I need to find a way to setup Windows ME (for some reason my cd-rom drive won't accept bootable CDs). Basically I just need to find a way to kill my MBR so I can install Windows ME. If anyone can help me out with this stuff, let me know.

 

[Maverick]

someone please help me out here

 

[SUOrangeman]

Well, if you are using NTFS, you won't get any files from Win2K without reinstalling it. If you are only using FAT/FAT32, then that won't be the problem.

If you can boot into DOS, and 'fdisk /mbr' should restore the MBR to pre-Win2K.

-SUO

 

[Marine]

Shiva,
You'd be far better off by investing a bit in some good Mushkin RAM and keeping Win2K rather than installing ME. If you go ahead with it, as the Orangeman says fdisk /mbr and format and start from scratch -- don't try to install over a botched Win2K setup.
Roar Lions Roar! Orangeman...don't suppose you remember the time you guys painted the Nittany Lion orange the night before a Syracuse-PSU football game?

 

[LordQria]

As far as the Outlook messages and favorites.. you can export you mail to a personal folder.. backup.pst and copy it to a floppy then import them back into Outlook. If your fav folder is huge, you can copy it as well, but I would recommend zipping it first. If its not overload, consider emailing it to yourself. I change computers at work all the time and its the best way for me to always have everything available.

-J

 

[Maverick]

well see, the problem is, I can't really boot into windows right now to export my files. That makes it difficult to back up those outlook files and the favorites.