Hello,

My computer, which has two partitions in its hard disk, with Millenium and XP, respektively. Millenium (in C) will not start up any more. I have tried several TIMES to set up ME again using start disk fails at ca 15 minutes left to completion with the message of: "... completed updating files, continuing to LOAD windows".

I do not want to FORMAT C at this stage.

Any suggestion??

Thanks in advance.What happened before it stopped working? Did you make any changes or new programs, or did it just happen without warning? I'm not sure about how ME installation works... is it possible to boot from the CD and do a reinstall?I had IR/keyboard and mouse connected to it. I replaced them with conventional ones (that I has used before) and tried to free an interrupr adress (?) to enable sound blaster (which otherwise did nor work and computer asked for it).

It can happen that I had disactivated one component which I did not have sufficient information on (still, I can not understand why windows would not start up!). It was yesterday evening.

This morning the copmputer did not start with ME and I could not reinstall it!

Thanks in advance.The most important question is what happened prior to this?

At this POINT, it look like a full reinstall is necessary, and then you will have to  mess with XP to get it to be able to load at all.By ATTEMPTING to re-install ME you have probably overwritten the boot info for XP.

What file system(s) are you using :-?

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