Windows ME on Dell laptop Inspiron 8000 bought 2002

Posted: 11-01-2003, 06:15 PM

peter wraith

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I have used this Dell machine sucessfully for two years
and earlier this year bought Windows XP Home edition.
That way I would be compatible with my Desktop.
Worked well for a couple of months and then it closed
down with a "Windows 32 fault" and refused to re-open
Eventually I was forced to wipe evrything off because,
said Dell, one cannot load XP into an ME laptop. I find
this bar to progress difficult to believe? Anyway around
it?
Peter Wraith

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Norm

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Re: Windows ME on Dell laptop Inspiron 8000 bought 2002

Posted: 11-01-2003, 07:13 PM

As long as you have the ME cd you can change the laptop bios to boot from
the XP cd and do a clean install. This is providing you purchased the XP
Home edition upgrade. If you have the upgrade version but don't have the
actual ME cd you will have to do a restore of ME and then upgrade. How did
you load XP originally?

"peter wraith" <pwraith@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> I have used this Dell machine sucessfully for two years
> and earlier this year bought Windows XP Home edition.
> That way I would be compatible with my Desktop.
> Worked well for a couple of months and then it closed
> down with a "Windows 32 fault" and refused to re-open
> Eventually I was forced to wipe evrything off because,
> said Dell, one cannot load XP into an ME laptop. I find
> this bar to progress difficult to believe? Anyway around
> it?
> Peter Wraith
>

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