Formatting WinMe

[ahw]

How can i create a Boot disk that boot WinMe in DosPrompt?
Is there a solution for this problem?
Thanks a lot in advance

 

[machow]

Go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Boot Disk, and create boot disk. Then insert the floppy blah blah blah done. I left the Win9x arena for quite a while now but it is pretty much the same thing.

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[ejsmith2]

There's a patch out for Winme that lets you boot into a command prompt. It's just a simple registry patch that good ole' msft left out.

 

[machow]

Er, where's the patch?

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[Arrow]

Hm... I'd like to know too.

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[ejsmith2]

I've never used it. I chucked Winme before I bothered with it, but I've read good things about it. Search on Lycos for the file 'mfddme13.zip'.
Here's the excerpt from the .nfo file.


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Did you ever wonder why Windows ME, which is based on the Windows 9x kernel,
can't access Real DOS-Mode? Did you think that Windows ME architecture
doesn't allow it?

Well, it seems that Microsoft simply decided to hide this option in Windows
ME, for some unknown reason...

This patch will modify "IO.SYS", "COMMAND.COM" and "REGENV32.EXE" in order to
unhide the Real DOS-Mode on Windows ME systems, resulting in a similar boot
process to the one available in Windows 9x. This will allow, for example, to
reach DOS directly by pressing "Shift-F8" at boot-up, to use "CONFIG.SYS" and
"AUTOEXEC.BAT" before Windows loads, and to set up a startup menu.

Compability:
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- This patch was tested only with the final release of Win ME (build
4.90.3000). It might be compatible with other (future or previous) builds
as well.

- If you are using a NON-US version of Win ME you will probably not be able
to use versions prior to v1.3 as the files that are patched seem to be
country specific. We have updated our current release to reflect this. If
you use the US version then you will not experience any differences between
v1.1, v1.2 and v1.3.