BOOT SOFTWARE

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I have an ME retail CD that boots just fine.

Chad Harris said:
It sure doesn't make sense that a retail ME would not be "bootable"
because I have two ME discs and I can boot them into setup everytime. I
followed my practice of insisting to the "300 OEM Named Partner" that if I
pay them over a dollar for their hardware they would send me a full
version of the OS. My lack of understanding of the trainwreck that would
happen when the memory leaking 16 bit 32 bit piece of crap that was Win ME
got on a box is a whole other issue.

Also earlier I posted the Win 98 MSKBs that revealed they are bootable
using the adjunct boot floppy that has been mentioned in this thread.

It seems strangely paradoxical and against the grain of my frustration
with the crap that OEM usually ships people that OEM "recovery disc" that
an OEM CD would be bootable but a retail wouldn't. Ususally the
experience is the other way around unless you have a rare OEM full OS--and
that's what I have with ME.

These ME discs go right into setup and also even though it gets posted all
the time, if you're not doing a "repair install" you don't have to set CD
in the bios setup.

Not that it matters that much, but Dell has painted on them Operating
system CD.

Here's what they look like for 98 and ME respectively. They are bootable:

98SE Bootable Dell OS CD
http://support.dell.com/support/kb/images/103450015.gif

Windows XP OS CD
http://auctions.audilis.com/xpblue.jpg

Bootable CD
http://dsnimg.dell.com/images/kb/103450015.gif

Non Bootable Recovery CD
http://dsnimg.dell.com/images/kb/103450017.gif

CH
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I'm still using some of those old Computer Shoppers to level off my couch.

-Luke

Ground said:
Wow. I was almost dying to have Windows 95, but couldn't afford a new
computer that would run it. I would drooled up the pages of Computer Shopper
[and in those days the pages were quite big] dreaming about a new computer
and reading about the "Wizards" of Windows 95. I had to wait until the
autumn before I could get my hot little hands on an AMD DX4-100 with 8MB
RAM - it was like I had discovered God's will.
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I still have v1, v2, v3, v3.11 on floppy somewhere.

I wasn't ever too excited about those only because there wasn't anything
to be excited about. All my games were DOS based. My internet connection
was mostly text based: bbs, gopher and ftp... no need for http back then.

I was an OS/2 Warp geek before Windows 95 release. My DOS choice back
then was IBM's PCDOS, not MSDOS.

95 finally gave me a gui that was higher resolution, better colors,
longer file names, and multimedia that was very hard to do under DOS.

Does anyone remember BeOS, or the BeBox?

-Luke
 
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