Windows Me Clean Installation - Page 2
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Format
After partitioning the hard drive (if necessary) we want to format the hard drive:
To format drive C, at the A prompt type the following:
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format c:
For each logical drive you created (such as D and E), at the A prompt type the following:
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format drive: (where drive is the appropriate drive letter)
Running Setup
Once formatting is complete, you can begin setup. To do so, switch the command prompt to the CD-ROM drive (typically E:, since the Windows 98 boot floppy creates a RAM drive as D:), type setup (and press [Enter]). If you have specific installation requirements, you may want to run setup with one or more command line switches. See the table below for all of the possible setup switches.
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Setup switch (case sensitive) | Efect |
| /? | Lists some of the documented setup switches. |
| /C | Do not load the SmartDrive disk cache. Normally you don't want to use this switch. |
| /d | Will not recognize previously installed version of Windows, if present. |
| /id | Non-functional: This switch is supposed to skip the disk check phase, but it doesn't work. |
| /ie | Causes Setup to not prompt you to create a Startup Disk (not recommended). |
| /ih | Runs ScanDisk in the foreground so that you can see the results. Use this switch if the system stalls during the ScanDisk check or if an error results. |
| /il | Loads the Logitech mouse driver instead of the Microsoft version. |
| /im | Skip the check for low conventional memory. |
| /in | Do not call the networking Setup software. Neither the networking software nor the Networking Wizard screens will be used. (Note that if you need dial-up networking, you need to run the networking phase of setup). |
| /iq | Do not check for cross-linked files during initial ScanDisk. |
| /is | Do not run ScanDisk. Not recommended, as ScanDisk will often help Setup run without errors. |
| /iv | This switch bypasses displaying the Setup screens during an upgrade within Windows. |
| /IW | Causes Setup to skip the license acceptance screen. |
| /M | Bypasses the playing of the Setup sound (.wav) files. |
| /na# |
This switch bypasses the program check and can use the following values:
#=0 Default. #=1 No Windows-based program check, but MS-DOS-based program are blocked. #=2 No MS-DOS-based program check, Windows-based programs are blocked. #=3 No Windows-based or MS-DOS-based program check. |
| /nm | Allows you to install Windows Me on a system that falls below the minimum CPU requirement. |
| /nostart | Causes Setup to perform only the File Copy portion of Setup, without actually installing Windows Me. |
| /T:[tempdir] | Specifies the directory where Setup is to copy its temporary files. This directory must already exist, but any existing files in the directory will be deleted. |
| [script file] | Allows you to specify the name of a script file that will be used to automate the Setup process. Automated Windows installations are covered in the Windows 98 Resource Kit. |
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