> Sorry about the really off topic post but... > I have a laptop that can only access either a floppy > drive or a cdrom at a time. I can't boot from my cdrom > (or actually, it won't boot, I don't know why), so I need > to get some system files onto the hard drive so that I > can reinstall an operating system. My idea is to boot from > a winME startup disk, copy the files from that to the hard > drive, reboot using those files, then reinstall my os from > the cdrom. Let's not go into why I just can't boot from my > cdrom, I just can't. The problem with my situation is that > three of the files on the me boot disk are hidden system > files. I can't copy them over to the hard drive because > it claims they aren't there when I copy a:*.* c:. I've > tried using the specific files names as well as it does > the same. I've tried attrib -h on the files. Any ideas > on how get these system files on to my hard drive? Any > any other method of installing my os is appreciated.
Typically, to move system files from one drive to another, you'd use the SYS command: a:\sys c: which would copy the system files from a to c. I'm not sure that SYS is on the WinME startup disk, but it's usually been on startup disks for earlier MS OSs other than NT, I think. However, it sounds like you've got some other problems which you might want to resolve. If it were my computer, I'd want to fix the "can't boot from CD" and "can only access one drive" problems before installing Windows ME (which is a problem in and of itself. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
