Win ME boot disk

[Glenn]

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]

You don't need to load EMM386.EXE. Windows ME will handle it.

[Glenn]

[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]

[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]

Try <a href="http://www.bootdisk.com" target="_blank">bootdisk.com</a> for ideas....

[Glenn]

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]

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]

[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]

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.