SnapafunFrank wrote:
Unless you have actually tried for yourself, please layoff saying things as if they were fact. As to windows, WinMe ain't so bad once you bash
For the fact that i couldn't run half the shit in WinME due to whatever MS invention was in there makes ME a pretty invaluable Win9X environment. (I still had a lot of DOS applications i wanted to run which ME didn't allow anymore and so were many companies having office tools based upon DOS that did not worked (properly) in ME)
ME supposed to be the stepping stone to NTFS system but it was lacking tools that were very usefull in Win9X and had things that crapped up various software packages. I couldn't even get Adobe Premiere to run in it, neither could i get bug-free hardware drivers for my pinnacle card for ME (as it did not support a load of other new hardware either which was released after Windows ME)
It's a fact that some people like WinME but it's also a fact that WinME was a marketfailure and not only for the reasons i just mentioned.
If it works:Congratulations and have fun, but if considering for a new install: VOID it.
For one thing it was good for was the silent hint that DOS software-support were about to become a thing of the past.
it's face in a bit AND it will run off another HDD without reconfiguring anything AND from a install from Mandrake to boot. Don't believe me: read the following and weep:
If you have only a non-FAT or non-NTFS platform on your primary harddrive, your second harddrive will always become C:\.
But if you have a Windows system on your primary partitions which shares the same FS as the one on your second harddrive...
Generally the msdos.sys holds a line which points to the systemdir. This has never been different, neither in current NT's boot.ini, it's required that the windows system knows where it's systemfolder is, Unless you have no other existing windows environments on your primary harddrive, you will have to configure that and that was my point.
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