Win Me Clean Install?

[john433i]

Can I do a clean install of Win Me using the Upgrade from 98 CD? I have 98SE now, and I've heard that Me is more reliable if you do a clean install, and I figure its about time to do a clean install anyway.

 

[john433i]

Someone must know!

 

[Sully]

Yes you can.
I just installed Windows ME upgrade.First I formated drive.
Booted computer with Windows 98 boot disk and placed the
Windows Me cd in cdrom If you get the a:\ prompt with the Windows 98 boot disk just type in
your cd drive letter and type setup or clicked on start with cd support or
setup and the Windows Me took over and during the instalation
it asked to verify windows 98 take out ME and replace it with
98 cd and hit browse select cdrom drive it copies 98 files it needs.
Then you replace Me disk and your home free for a clean install.

 

[Rand]

Yes you can. Just proceed throught the clean install as you normally would and before the actual install starts WinME will ask you for a valid upgrade product. Insert your 98SE CD and WinME will detect it and your free to install from there.

 

[jjjjayd13]

Yes you can. I just installed WinMe, by partitioning my hard drive.

I have NT4 on the first partition, and WinMe on the second.

What I did was to create the FAT32 partition C:, using Partition Magic. Then I loaded Boot Magic, copy WinMe files onto the second partition and started setup.

When WinMe requested Win98SE files, I loaded them through my CD.

It worked fine 🙂, and now I waiting for any bugs to appear. 😉.

Hope this helps.

jayd

 

[Ron128]

Here is a cute trick I have used for many years when installing Win9x/ME/NT/2K/Whatever...

Find the important directory and copy it to your otherwise clean hard drive (For WinME it's the Win9x directory). Make sure you get all sub-directories as well. You can re-name the directory if you like... I tend to call mine "WINFILES.ME" or .98 or .95 or .nt4 or whatever. Then, run setup out of the directory you just created.

The OS will install from the directory... and if you leave the directory there you will never be asked for the CD ever again. This is great if (like me) you tend to swap out hardware on a regular basis just to try whatever is new... because the system will already know to find it's files on the hard drive.

BTW, I did a clean install of ME 3-4 weeks ago from the MSDN retail release. I have had no problems at all... no crashes... no BSOD... not even a blink. My reccomendation is that if you can afford to clean-install, it's probably worth the time and money.