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12-Jan-2004, 02:00 PM #16
ok iv spoke to the shop that sold it and they say they will sort the drivers if ME hasnt got them,

when i try and format it says format of c is not suported!
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12-Jan-2004, 02:07 PM #17
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I guess I'm wondering if they have any kind of support desk that could tell you whether or not it will work thru XP or not.

Can you either tell us here, or post back to the other thread what you had to do to get it to work thru ME? Like I mentioned in that thread, (I think) I had a dos version of Peachtree and had to jump thru similar hoops to make it work in 98.
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12-Jan-2004, 02:12 PM #18
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ok iv spoke to the shop that sold it and they say they will sort the drivers if ME hasnt got them,

when i try and format it says format of c is not suported!
Where are you trying to format from? From within Windows? IF so, Windows isn't stupid, it isn't going to kill itself. You have to do that from a dos prompt with a boot disk.
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12-Jan-2004, 02:14 PM #19
started with boot disk, it says it cant find FAT, or Fat 32 file!

Typed format c:

Format not supported on drive C:
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12-Jan-2004, 02:16 PM #20
used an ME boot disk!

In response to other question. i didnt have to do anything to get it working with ME! worked straight away!
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12-Jan-2004, 02:26 PM #21
What happens if you change boot order to cdrom first, and put the ME cd in the drive, will ME attempt to install that way?
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12-Jan-2004, 05:31 PM #22
not tried yet,

if i use xp startup it goes straight to a command prompt a: and if i put format c it says bad command
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12-Jan-2004, 05:36 PM #23
no it6 skips the cd-rom and carries onto startup
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12-Jan-2004, 05:38 PM #24
Is the bios set to boot to cdrom first?
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12-Jan-2004, 05:53 PM #25
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started with boot disk, it says it cant find FAT, or Fat 32 file!

Typed format c:

Format not supported on drive C:
Since the PC is running XP it looks like the drive is formatted to NTFS and not FAT32. The DOS boot disk and the format command isn't going to read the NTFS.

May have to Fdisk this puppy and start from scratch.
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12-Jan-2004, 05:55 PM #26
how do i do that?
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12-Jan-2004, 05:59 PM #27
yes i set it to boot from cd rom first!
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12-Jan-2004, 06:05 PM #28
in fdisk it says the type is ntfs!
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12-Jan-2004, 06:19 PM #29
You are probably going to have to download or create an XP boot disk.
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12-Jan-2004, 06:25 PM #30
i have created an xp boot disk, but it starts straight with a command prompt A: where do i go from there?

I can start up and create one again!

Or am i confusing boot and startup? they are the same are'nt they?
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