I was having alot of problems from son's kazaa downloads, etc. So I thought I would wipe out the harddrive and start over fresh. The first time I put in the ME restore cds the windows screen came up but it wouldn't let me use the CD drive. So I put in the restore CDs and there was an error message about the softwear being expired to contact the vendor. Once again I put in the first cd and now a new error message says"invalid system disk, replace and press any key" I'm a real dummy who had no business touching it. Somebody with alot of patience please help.
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Do you not have instructions on how to use the restore CD(s)? I would expect either the first one to boot - with a menu, or perhaps there would be a floppy with them that does the booting.
What is the make/model of the machine? Do you know what the boot order is in the bios (its usually either floppy or CD first, then the first hard drive). The fact you got 2 different messages is odd in itself.
What is the make/model of the machine? Do you know what the boot order is in the bios (its usually either floppy or CD first, then the first hard drive). The fact you got 2 different messages is odd in itself.
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The keyboard won't work and I can't bring up the Start menu at desktop. Also none of my CDs will come up either. I'm on my wireless laptop so I can use it to d/l something if I need to.
If you tell me to do something please note if it's F3,F8, etc. at startup.
Thanks for your help!
If you tell me to do something please note if it's F3,F8, etc. at startup.
Thanks for your help!
When you say the keyboard won't work - is this only in ME? (ie, is it usable before ME loads - eg, to enter the bios settings)? And the obvious - it is connected properly? Have you another keyboard to try (and/or can you plug that keyboard into your laptop - if its got a port for one to check its working).
Your symptoms do sound like there may be a hardware problem of some sort (as obviously after restoring machine to 'factory' condition, it should just work). Things like bad RAM can cause all sorts of odd symptoms - I know you mentioned kazaa as source of problems (and I know personally it can be), but if you've bad hadware, that can cause symptoms you might think were virus/trojans etc. I mentioned RAM - but it could be any piece of hardware. RAM's generally easy to check (there are memory testers - eg - but if you've > 1 stick, just try running with each stick on its own (usually its just one that's bad - occasionally the combination of the 2 that's bad)
Your symptoms do sound like there may be a hardware problem of some sort (as obviously after restoring machine to 'factory' condition, it should just work). Things like bad RAM can cause all sorts of odd symptoms - I know you mentioned kazaa as source of problems (and I know personally it can be), but if you've bad hadware, that can cause symptoms you might think were virus/trojans etc. I mentioned RAM - but it could be any piece of hardware. RAM's generally easy to check (there are memory testers - eg - but if you've > 1 stick, just try running with each stick on its own (usually its just one that's bad - occasionally the combination of the 2 that's bad)
My son has an HP 6745C with Windows ME. The system indicates that there is 198 meg of RAM, but even when there is nothing running except explorer and scandisk he gets an error saying there is insufficient available memory for SCandisk to complete it's operation. Thoughts on how to overcome?
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