I have an OLDER laptop with only a 2Gig HD. I wanted to do a FRESH install of ME, in order to delete all the crap that I've accumulated over time.

I purchased the laptop used and originally it looks like it had win98 as the OS. As a result of its "used" status I didn't get any disks with it (i.e. RECOVERY, win98 or winME) I have FOUND the copy of the winME on the hard DRIVE & have been able to reinstall from there, however this still left me with all the old crap on my system.

I'm wondering how I would do a reformat & then reinstall the copy of ME currently on the hard drive??

I think I would need to make a boot disk, then reformat the drive & then reinstall?? Correct?

Also note that the laptop doesn't have a floppy drive, but I do have an external Hard drive which I've copied all the information from the laptop to.

Can anyone give me details on how I would accomplish this, if it is even possible without having the physical disks?

Thank you for you time.Are all of the dis sets in the \Windows]cabs folder? If so you might be able to copy that to the external hard drive, but it wouldn't solve the problem of no floppy to boot from and then format the drive. A bit of a puzzler there.Quote

I have an older laptop with only a 2Gig HD. I wanted to do a fresh install of ME, in order to delete all the crap that I've accumulated over time.

I purchased the laptop used and originally it looks like it had win98 as the OS. As a result of its "used" status I didn't get any disks with it (i.e. recovery, win98 or winME) I have found the copy of the winME on the hard drive & have been able to reinstall from there, however this still left me with all the old crap on my system.

I'm wondering how I would do a reformat & then reinstall the copy of ME currently on the hard drive??

I think I would need to make a boot disk, then reformat the drive & then reinstall?? Correct?

Also note that the laptop doesn't have a floppy drive, but I do have an external Hard drive which I've copied all the information from the laptop to.

Can anyone give me details on how I would accomplish this, if it is even possible without having the physical disks?

Thank you for you time.