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I want to clear my pc, back to its original settings and then re install
millenium. Can anyone help me please.
 
To do a clean install, either boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom or setup
disks. The set of four install disks can be created from your Windows 2000
CD-Rom; change to the \bootdisk directory on the CD-Rom and execute
makeboot.exe (from dos) or makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and follow the
prompts.

When you get to the point, delete the existing NTFS and or other partitions
found. After you delete the partition(s) abort the install, then again
restart the pc booting the CD-Rom or setup disks to avoid unexpected drive
letter assignments with your new install.

Be sure to apply these to your new install before connecting to any network.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/6/A/E6A04295-D2A8-40D0-A0C5-241BFECD095E/W2KSP4_EN.EXE
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-043.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-049.mspx

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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|I want to clear my pc, back to its original settings and then re install
| millenium. Can anyone help me please.
 
This is a Win2000 newsgroup. Other newsgroups deal with WinME. I assume
your question has to do with WinME.

If you attempted to upgrade a WinME system to Win2000 by using the
Win2000 CD to "modify" the existing ME, that cannot be done; you will
wind up with garbage. To get from WinME to Win2000 you must do a clean
install of Win2000.

Further, I believe not all PCs designed for WinME meet the more
stringent hardware standards demanded by Win2000. You may be lucky, and
you may not.

If the above has nothing to do with what you did/want to do, and what
you want is simply to reinstall WinME over a corrupt or very tired
version of that system, then you should simply use the WinME CD to do a
fresh install. (I think -- but go to a WinME newsgroup and ask your
question there WITH MORE SPECIFIC INFO ABOUT YOUR PROBLEM.)
 
Lynne's post, appended to a 3.5 month-old earlier thread, raised so many
questions about what her problem really is that I thought it best to try
covering a bunch of very basic bases. I had a feeling that she is an
innocent, OS-wise. Sort of feeling her way through a dark, windy place
with only a small candle. Never hurts to empathize - tho it may
sometimes turn out embarrassing. When you've climbed inside the wrong
mind, e.g. :-) Hope she's not a postgrad psych student doing a paper.
 
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