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Glenn
January 22nd, 2002, 04:47 PM
I'm trying to do a custom Windows ME bootdisk, and I end up getting a lockup when I try to run EMM386.EXE.

How do I get a bootdisk with correctly running XMS and EMS memory?
MadDog
January 22nd, 2002, 05:54 PM
You don't need to load EMM386.EXE. Windows ME will handle it.
Glenn
January 22nd, 2002, 06:49 PM
[quote]Originally posted by MadDog:
<strong>You don't need to load EMM386.EXE. Windows ME will handle it.</strong><hr></blockquote>

No it won't. I have a couple of drivers which complain that they don't have EMS memory, so they won't load.
Votan
January 22nd, 2002, 06:57 PM
[quote]Originally posted by Glenn:
<strong>

No it won't. I have a couple of drivers which complain that they don't have EMS memory, so they won't load.</strong><hr></blockquote>

I think it does. Look at this key in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\MS-DOSOptions\EMS
MadDog
January 22nd, 2002, 07:03 PM
Try <a href="http://www.bootdisk.com" target="_blank">bootdisk.com</a> for ideas....
Glenn
January 22nd, 2002, 11:30 PM
Thanks for the help. It appeared things wouldn't work out doing a ME disk, so I decided to download a 98 bootdisk, grab all the other files out of my old win98 cabs, and do that.

Main thing is something that's capable of reading those long file names.
Votan
January 23rd, 2002, 10:36 AM
Are you trying to boot in real dos mode with ME boot disk? If possible, explain what you want the custom bot disk to do.
Glenn
January 25th, 2002, 12:41 PM
[quote]Originally posted by Votan:
<strong>Are you trying to boot in real dos mode with ME boot disk? If possible, explain what you want the custom bot disk to do.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Make a generic boot disk which loads all the appropriate drivers necessary for my system without having all the unnecessary drivers load (like the SCSI crap).

Then I want to go from there and make a burn-in disk, and a virus scan disk, and a few other things I have going ...
Sly
January 27th, 2002, 01:30 AM
You can find a disk to boot just about any system <a href="http://www.drd.dyndns.org/index2.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.. Just follow the inst. for making the disk, and then you can add any other drivers you need, space permitting.