Rick
Tue May 18 13:34:56 CDT 2004
Be as bold as you want... All M$ OSes screw around with the
MasterBootRecord when you install them. The MBR is where the boot manger
is. As to whether reinstalling the boot manager will actually accomplish
anything, I have no clue, IMHO couldn't hurt.
As far as uninstalling IE6 and WMP9 before you reinstall Windows over
itself, Microsoft expects you to psychically know that.
Rick
</rant>
It doesn't bug me much when M$ doesn't add functionality to a previous
OS... what *does* bug me is when they can't be arsed to fix things that
don't work right to begin with. Refresh Installation is a M$ prescribed
procedure... so why does the user have to put up with all this crap
about uninstalling WMP9 and IE6 and even after all that have to
reinstall patches blindly. Too difficult to add a refresh.bat file to
the EBD or something?
</endrant>
Roxy wrote:
> Mike:
>
> I don't really understand when you say if the partitions are visible. In
> case it helps, ME is on C: and Win2k is on F. When I open Windows Explorer
> in Win2k, I can see everything and C: files are available if I need to open
> them. Programs is another matter.
>
> I did not remove IE6. The problem is how do I remove IE6 if I can't get ME
> to complete the installation process. I can't work with the registry because
> when I do run regedit, the one that comes up is Win2k; the operating system
> working at the time.
>
> Rick:
>
> I can start in safe mode but ME won't go into the final phase of the
> startup.
>
> If I may be so bold, why would I need to reinstall BootMagic -- on booting
> I'm given the choice between ME and Win2k and if I chose Win2k it works
> fine.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Roxy
>
>
> "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message
> news:ewHU3VOPEHA.3348@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>
>>Roxy,
>>
>>Forget about system restore for now. It's broken because you have
>
> reinstalled
>
>>Win Me over itself and never reinstalled the patches. It's too late for
>>system restore to help you now as any checkpoints you might have are
>
> useless.
>
>>If you have your Win Me partition visible when running Win 2K this could
>
> be
>
>>the cause of your problems. Personally I never feel it a good idea to
>
> expose
>
>>different operating system partitions to each other preferring instead to
>
> keep
>
>>all system partitions hidden other than the one currently in use.
>>
>>Your current problem seems to results from having reinstalled Win Me over
>>itself, perhaps because you didn't first remove Internet Explorer 6. In
>
> all
>
>>honesty I don't feel that your original problem warranted reinstalling Win
>
> Me
>
>>but I appreciate different users approach their problems from different
>>directions.
>>
>>Given what I know about the history of your problem I would try to
>
> reinstall
>
>>Win Me yet again. If you do choose to reinstall Win Me this can cause
>>problems especially if you had previously upgraded from IE5.5 to IE6 (See
>>below) and possibly if you had installed an early (beta) version of
>
> Windows
>
>>Media Player 9. Any WMP problems can be avoided by renaming
>>c:\windows\system\wmploc.dll to wmploc.old before reinstalling Win Me.
>
> You
>
>>will also need to reinstall some critical patches even though the Windows
>>Update site will not show them as being required due to the original
>>"IsInstalled" flag remaining set in the registry. The Belarc Advisor
>>(
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html) would help you here in
>
> identifying
>
>>which patches needed to be reinstalled.
>>
>>If you have installed IE6 ideally this needs to be uninstalled before
>>(re-)installing Win Me. If this is the case you might want to have a look
>
> at
>
>>MS KB 312451 - "How to Remove Internet Explorer 6 by Reinstalling Windows"
>>(
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=312451) and also KB 293907 - "How to
>>Uninstall Internet Explorer 6"
>
> (
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=293907).
>
>>--
>>Mike Maltby MS-MVP
>>mcmaltby@hotmail.com
>>
>>
>>Roxy <prskater@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Thanks for your prompt reply. The problems began when ME would freeze
>>>after running for some 15 minutes. I figured it was some virus and did
>>>scans but no virus were found. I tried restoring the system to a
>
> previous
>
>>>configuration but it always said restoration was unsuccessful. Then I
>>>reinstalled ME over itself to see if it would restore damaged system
>>>files. Now, it just won't go past the background green color desktop.
>>>I have had Boot Magic for several years -- first using Win98 and
>
> Win2000,
>
>>>then I upgraded Win98 to ME. And it had worked like a charm, until this
>>>week. Win2k is working fine. I'm sending these messages from my Win2k
>>>configuration.
>>>
>>>The problem with system restore is that from Win2k I can't upgrade with
>>>the patch and in any case my impression is that it will not help much if
>>>it won't go back to a previous version -- starting from scratch after
>>>installing the patch.
>>>
>>>My smgr.dll is version 4.90.0.2533
>>
>>
>
>