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Rich - 17 Jan 2004 15:00 GMT

I have a computer that I upgraded from Win98 SE to ME. A
few months ago, I was having diconnect problem with my
modem and so, I formatted my disk and reinstalled using
my product recovery CD. After that, I tried to reinstal
ME but could not any more. First, there will be a message
that setup has detected some programs running and will
reboot and then, start the installation process. The
setup runs and then stops. It then says that the computer
has an operating system and cannot install windows me. I
did not have that problem when I upgraded to ME the first
time. It is the same cd that I used the first time. Can
anyone please tell me what is going wrong?

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Voc?tional? & Technic?l? Educ?tion? - 19 Jan 2004 15:36 GMT

Why not test by using the MOVE command to move/rename windows to oldwin.
Then install ME if it is a full version and not an upgrade.

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Richard - 30 Jan 2004 04:26 GMT

Thank you very much. How do I do that?

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Rick - 31 Jan 2004 07:46 GMT

> I have a computer that I upgraded from Win98 SE to ME. A
> few months ago, I was having diconnect problem with my
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> time. It is the same cd that I used the first time. Can
> anyone please tell me what is going wrong?

I usually advise on running an install on a clean hard-disk.

However,

If you're going to do a "dirty" update, try it from Safe Mode, or at
least close everything in Task Manager except "Explorer".

The CD your using is an "OEM - for installation on a New machine only".
It's supposed to be installed on a brand new machine, not over top an
existing OS - if it finds an existing OS it won't install.

Rick

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