WinME on CD

[The Coolest]

Hey guys, I have troubles w/ my HDD is now its not working like it should, can I somehow put INSTALLED windows on a CD and make it work like it should, the CD-Rom drive will have the letter C, cause there will be no harddrive in the system, can I somehow make it work?
I want to burn the CD at a friends comp, I don't have CD-RW so there will not be the option of puting it into a CD-RW drive w/ a CD-RW CD. What u think?

[flounder43]

To be clear, you want to copy your Windows on to a CD how? And you want to do what with it? Sorry, I am not following.

[David]

You mean boot Me off of a CD?
I don't think that can be done
If you have registry problems etc I would say back up your docs to CD and just reformat. Try WinXp or 2k - they are both better than Me - Yuk!

[The Coolest]

flouner43: I want to burn the contents of the drive to the CD, I want only to fold w/ it till I get a good drive.

penguinfreak: I'm having phisical HDD problems, I need to somehow use the comp in HDDless mode, and a server OS on the main comp is out of the ? for me...

[David]

It is very nearly impossible to boot winme off a read only medium. I think Norton Systemworks can make a boot disk (250MB ZIP disk) which can boot into windows ?

[cw823]

Not possible. Besides. There would be so many variables you'd run into installing off a friend's comp. Fix the hard drive.

[Newbie_Doo]

Ghost the image (using the Ghost of course). If it is small enough to fit on a CD-R, then burn the image to CD-R. Reformat, then re-install from the image and hope that the image data is not corrupted.

Otherwise do a clean format and re-install your apps, and just save the the data files to CD-R.

BTW, tread lightly on the subject of copying Windows in any fashion. Microsoft takes a dim view of it and so do we. :)

N_D

[The Coolest]

Newbie_Doo>> OK, that sounded interesting, but I didn't understand the "then burn the image to CD-R. Reformat, then re-install from the image " part. could u explain?

The problem is that the HDD is dead, untill I get $$$ for a new 1 I must run the comp HDDless

[Jeff Bolton]

i don't think what you want to do is possible.

you want to have all of your systems files on a cd (as if the cd was your hard drive) and have your hardware communicate with the cdrom to carry out all of the functions of the computer. i just don't think theres any way to do this at all.

this would mean having all of your registry, windows folder, program files, etc all on a cd. i just can't see this happening. is windows ME even small enough (after installation) to fit on a single dics?

its a good idea, just trying to present some things for you to think about. chances are you are going to have to wait till you can afford a new hard disk.

what are you using to post on now? is there any way you can swap out that hard drive temporarily? just a thought.

jeff

[David]

YOu are basically stuck till u gat a new Hdd

[Kingslayer]

Yes, he basically wants to install ME to a cdrom instead of a hard drive and run his computer off of that CD.

I won't say it's not possible, however it's just not feasible, probably wont fold, and isn't worth the pain to do it.

[Angry]

There is no way, as WinMe would need to edit teh files and stuff on the CD, NOw this may work on a CD-RW BUT, Windows couldnt know that....Windows Me is an OKAY OS, great for games, but as for stability...nah...WinMe hates to have its registry edited...

[The Coolest]

I was told that I can do a Image/ghost w/ Norton to a CD and windoze will work fine, if I remove the SWP file.

[David]

Windows will write to the boot drive. Unless you boot off a CD and use a RAMdisk then you can not run winme just off a cd