probably stick to plan a then!

 

Gaz

Go and pick Adam up

 

and some skins

 

lol

 

Ok for when Gaz gets back :-

You need to re-start your computer, and hold in the DELETE key until the BIOS screen appears. You will then need to go into one of the menu's in there and look for something about the Boot Sequence. Normally this will be set at something like A, C, CD-ROM or maybe written differently, for example ( Floppy, IDE-0, CD-ROM).

You need to make sure the firsty boot device is your Floppy drive, and not your hard drive (IDE-0). Then exit the BIOS, saving the changes you have made (if any). Then when the computer starts up it will look in the Floppy Drive for something to Boot up from. It will find the Disc which you're getting from Adam and will ask if you want to start windows with CD-ROM support. Just say go with that and it will spend 30secs or so loading some files and you will end up in DOS with an A: prompt. At this prompt you need to type format C: (assuming your hard drive is labelled C). It will ask if you are sure you want to format, so type Y and it'll do its thing. In about 10-30mins it will finish, and will ask you to type a name for your drive, so type Hard Drive or something like that.

Thats the actual format done. The nex steps depend on which OS you are going to use (ME by the sounds of it) and so IF it boots from the CD as someone above says it does, you need to go back into the BIOS, and change the 1st boot device to your CD-ROM drive, then exit the BIOS, and when the computer re-starts it will find the ME CD to boot from. Then follow all the on-screen instructions and you should end up with ME back on your machine.

You'll need all your motherboard drivers for sound, graphics and modem etc (i presume, never used ME myself).

 

He should be home by now

Hope the "Derv Destroyer" has made it

 

well i have more problems

been into bios thingy

and ive gone to boot options ,and i have 4 options

1 removable disk
2 ide hard drive
3 atapi cd rom
4 other boot drive

ive looked in all of these and no where does it say about booting from floppy

 

how about using number 4.... should work? give it a try and see what happens, but DONT do any formatting yet until you are 100% sure that you understand what you are going to have to do.

Are you going to be ok installing the necessary drivers etc and software to get you back online?

 

yes mate im ok with everything else just fining out where to boot it from

 

Good luck m8!

 

ok done what u said with no 4 mate

the options i have are

no 4 other boot device scsi/oboard ata bootdevice
int 18 device (network)
disabled

fook i have to cry now cos its pissing me right off

 

KICK IT

 

Hummm thats odd.

Errrr, is there another option in the BIOS (same menu) which says something like "Boot Up Floppy Seek" (or anything like that.....?)

 

thanks thats helping

 

im also happy to talk you thru it 100% on the phone, (if you ring me... not wasting my credit ) and i do know how to do it 100% and all the best ways round things that dont work (like not being able to boot into dos )

catch me on msn or PM me and ill give u me number...

i got fuck all else to do tonight anyway

 

yes there is sketch i have enabled that as it was disabled

i have tried disabling all 4 options and just enabling boot from floppy but nowt happens i just get a black screen and nowt else the pc wont do anything ?

 

sorry jim not possiblelol i cant catch you on msn as i cant access it lol

what i have noticed is that all my files that i cant get into end in .INK

that any use ??? couldnt i just go into my folder options and tel it what to use forthese types of files?

 

Not really the best approach Gaz...

 

aint got a clue what your on about

 

 

Well im out of ideas at the mo... until you can get to a DOS prompt so that you can format your drive, then i cant help. Speak to Jim, maybe he can help cos im knackered now and dont reckon my brain wants to play ball for much longer

Just to clarify though, with the settings in the BIOS doign whatever to get it to seek the floppy drive on startup..... and with the boot disc in that you got from Adam :-

Do you actually hear the floppy drive attempting to read the disk at all?

What do you actually get on screen? Nowt?

 

nowt ,it just says remove disk or some shit

 

hummmm, thats odd. I hope Adam's given you the right thing on disc, cos that almost sounds like what happens when you have a floppy in the drive which isnt bootable, and the system asks you to remove it so that it can try and find something to boot from.

 

I tested it on mine m8 and it was fine

well it started booting and i turned the fooker off

 

yepo thats what its doing mate , it says please remove all disks and press and key , as soon as i do this it just repeats the message so i have to resart the pc ????

 

Hummmm, now im well stumped then.

Would you fancy taking the drive out and formatting it in another computer, say Adams?

 

tell u what mate im leaving it for tonight cos at the moment now my actual page is huge ,ive lost all the colours its blurry as fook and im about to launch it out the window

cheers fro everyones help it will be fixed tommorrow

 

Right chaps, in order for this to work, the bios setting will need to be set to "REMOVABLE DISK", it's saying literally what it means , save changes and then restart the computer. It will then boot up off the boot disk (which I am assuming is Windows 98, choose the option to Start Computer With Cd-ROM Support, it will load and install cd-rom drivers for you, and tell you that the cd-rom drive will be E:. Type in E: and press enter, and then type in dir and press enter, if a load of files go up, then your fine. If not, then you have problems. Once the cd has been read, type in A: and press enter, then type in format c: and agree to it all, it will then format the drive, once done, type in E: and press enter, then I think you have to type in Stup, and the Windows ME setup should commence and start installing the operating system. Any probs, let me know.