Need WinMe for 1 day

[Jack Black]

I have recently had a new computer built running XP, and installed my
old hard drive, which ran on WinMe, inside occupying Virtual drives
H:, I:, J:, and K:.

H: was the old drive that had WinMe on it but I'm told that
reactivating it will be awkward because it wouldn't have the drivers
for the new MotherBoard??

I have some data tied up in a program that needs to be expensively
upgraded before it will run on XP. If I can set up WinMe for just a
few minutes I can extract the data.

I have recently deleted and reformated I: Drive which is 14BG of
FAT32.

Is it possible for me to have a clean Install of WinME on this drive
or will I somehow screw up my current XP installation?

If the above is possible I would appreciate it if someone could direct
me to a web link that clearly lays out the steps neccessary.

Thanks

 

[Malke]

I have recently had a new computer built running XP, and installed my
old hard drive, which ran on WinMe, inside occupying Virtual drives
H:, I:, J:, and K:.

H: was the old drive that had WinMe on it but I'm told that
reactivating it will be awkward because it wouldn't have the drivers
for the new MotherBoard??

I have some data tied up in a program that needs to be expensively
upgraded before it will run on XP. If I can set up WinMe for just a
few minutes I can extract the data.

I have recently deleted and reformated I: Drive which is 14BG of
FAT32.

Is it possible for me to have a clean Install of WinME on this drive
or will I somehow screw up my current XP installation?

If the above is possible I would appreciate it if someone could direct
me to a web link that clearly lays out the steps neccessary.

Thanks

Is it necessary to actually run ME and/or the program or can you just
copy the data from one of the expensive program's folders? If the
latter, just slave the old drive, boot into XP. XP will see the ME
drive and you can copy the data off that way.

Malke

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have recently had a new computer built running XP, and installed my
old hard drive, which ran on WinMe, inside occupying Virtual drives
H:, I:, J:, and K:.

H: was the old drive that had WinMe on it but I'm told that
reactivating it will be awkward because it wouldn't have the drivers
for the new MotherBoard??

I have some data tied up in a program that needs to be expensively
upgraded before it will run on XP. If I can set up WinMe for just a
few minutes I can extract the data.

I have recently deleted and reformated I: Drive which is 14BG of
FAT32.

Is it possible for me to have a clean Install of WinME on this drive
or will I somehow screw up my current XP installation?

If the above is possible I would appreciate it if someone could direct
me to a web link that clearly lays out the steps neccessary.

Thanks

WinME is fairly tolerant when it comes to running on different
hardware. It may whinge about a few drivers that it cannot find
but it will probably get you to the desktop anyway. At worst it
will run the display in 640x480 mode, which is not too hard to
fix. I would give it a try, by making the ME disk the primary
master disk. Once it's up and running, you can export your data
for use by WinXP.

 

[Lil' Dave]

Am guessng the fomer hard drive containing ME still has an active primary
partition, whereas the remainder are not. Under those conditions, and there
was no data problem regarding CHS on this same hard drive, could he not just
temporarily physically disconnnect the hard drive with XP to get to ME? Or
perhaps move the ME hard drive to primary master position if the PC is not
tolerant to boot drives in another location?

Find it hard to believe an 3rd party application that needs upgrading to
work in an XP environment cannot work with data made with the same
application that was not upgraded. No lack of access to any of the added
partitions was mentioned.

 

[Jack Black]

Many thanks to the 3 contributors listed below.

to: Malke

I must access this program through WinME.

to: Pegasus

I don't know if the WinME on H: drive is uncorrupted. If it is still a
viable OS exactly how do I start it as the operating system of
choice? and is it safe??.....I don't want to screw up my XP
installation,,,,,which I think is a great OS.

to: Lil' Dave

I'm sorry I don't understand computers enough to comprehend your
solution. The program that bothers me is an extinct freeware
encryption program that does not run under XP. The author has
indicated that a certain payware program has the ability to
unencrypted these containers. If I could run WinMe for just a few
minutes...I could un encrypt them and then re-encrypt using any number
of freeware or shareware programs.

All 3 respondents ignored my proposal to have a fresh install of WinMe
on my I: drive.........I presume that this solution is either
impossible or possibly too tricky ???


Thanks again everybody

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

As I said before: Make the WinME disk the primary
master disk, then boot from it. It won't damage your
WinXP installation.

 

[Jack Black]

How do I do that?

As I said before: Make the WinME disk the primary
master disk, then boot from it. It won't damage your
WinXP installation.

 

[Malke]

How do I do that?

Open the computer and connect the WinME drive to the IDE0 ribbon cable,
making sure its jumpers are set to Master. Since this is temporary, you
don't need to screw the drive in. Disconnect the XP drive. Boot. Do
whatever you need to with the WinME program - save the data onto a usb
stick or whatever. Turn the computer off, remove the WinME drive and
reconnect your XP drive.

Malke