Help w/ XP Home from Win ME

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Did you create a Windows ME startup disk? If you have one, restart the
system with the Windows ME startup disk...this will bring you to a DOS
prompt. Type C: and hit Enter. Then type Format C: and hit enter. This will
format your C: drive. If you have a D: drive I would suggest formatting it
also.

If you want to clean install Windows XP with your Windows XP upgrade CD you
will have to have a Windows 98 or Windows ME CD...it will prompt you for one
of these CD's during the installation of XP home.

"Gary W. Plourde Sr." wrote:

> I've two computers: Upstairs (new) hp pavilion a650y using Win XP Home
> Edition, and Downstairs (old) Gateway, using Win ME. I use a Wireless
> Linksys router w/ an adapter for downstairs to connect the two. I also
> purchased Win XP Home upgrade, which is supposed to change the downstairs'
> Win ME into Win XP Home. I had many problems and it was suggested that I do
> a clean install of Win XP. So, by using the Upgrade XP CD, I tried to get
> rid of Win ME on the downstairs, and install only XP. The end result was,
> for reasons I'm still not sure: First, I had to reinstall my router adapter
> downstairs, because XP wouldn't detect it, then, after installation, my
> wireless router kept kicking off line about every minute I'd lose the
> connection. After frustration, I then re-installed Win Me by the
> Restoration disks (specifically disk #2) of the three disks. Now, I have no
> sound or I detect slight sound in the background that's a carry over from
> XP. Why would that be happening when ME does, I thought, a completer format
> of the hard drive? Anyway, can someone help me either get rid of Win Me,
> and format the C drive, then install XP by the upgrade disk, or, now that
> I've re-installed ME, find out why I haven't sound, correct it, find out why
> I was always kicked off line on my wireless router, correct it, and either
> before all this or after all this, re-install XP's upgrade, and in the end,
> have my downstairs computer (Gateway), connected wirelessly to my upstairs
> computer, both using Windows XP Home Edition, SP-2, and my wireless
> router/adapter combination working well? Please help.
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> Also: Bottom line: At this point, after so many re-installations of Win ME
> and Win XP Home Upgrade, I want to completely reformat my hard drive,
> completely clean is off nada there, and then re-install either Win Me then
> XP's Upgrade, or, if there's a way, use XP's Upgrade for a clean install.
> Can anyone Advise?
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> P.S. Is there away in DOS to do a complete format of C: drive?
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