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This article provides basic, linear troubleshooting steps that you can use
to help resolve issues when you are installing Microsoft Windows Millennium
Edition (Me).
- Preparing to run Windows Me Setup
- Collecting information about your computer
- Copying files to your computer
- Setting up hardware and finalizing system settings
During an upgrade you may also receive the following error message:
To have Setup close all open programs and restart your computer, click OK. Setup continues when the computer restarts. Or click Cancel to exit Setup.
 | Netdi.dll
| Netos.dll
| Setupx.dll | |
If Setup stops responding while checking your computer or upgrading your registry database, verify that you have quit all programs and all running tasks are closed. You can also check the Setuplog.txt file for information about the registry split, because a successful split generates the following information for an upgrade:
If you click OK, Setup restarts your computer and returns
you to the Windows Me Setup Wizard. Some common programs that are known to cause
this are the ATI video drivers and the Diamond In-Control tools.
If Setup stops responding while checking your computer or upgrading your
registry database, verify that you have quit all programs and all running tasks
are closed. You can also check the Setuplog.txt file for information about the
registry split, because a successful split generates the following information
for an upgrade:
NOTE: Scanreg.exe does not run during a clean installation.
ScanReg /fix results... Returned [0] with Commandline [C:\Wininsto.400\Scanregw.exe /Split /Win /Nop /Noback C:\User.new C:\System.new C:\Classes.new]
During the creation of the emergency boot disk (EBD), from 0 to 20 percent of
files are gathered for EBD creation. From 20 to 60 percent, the disk is being
formatted, and at this point you may receive errors if you have a damaged floppy
disk or a damaged floppy disk drive. From 60 to 100 percent, files are being
copied from the Wininsto.400\Ebd folder to the floppy disk.
- Insert the Windows Millennium Startup disk into the floppy disk drive, and then restart your computer.
- Start your computer with CD-ROM support.
- At the command prompt, type:
c:
Then press ENTER and type:md flat
Then press ENTER.
NOTE: If you do not have enough free space on drive C to create a flat folder, create the flat folder on any drive with enough free space. - Change to the CD-ROM drive. For example, if the drive letter is
"G", type:
g:
| Then press ENTER.
| Type: | cd win9x Then press ENTER. Type:
| copy *.* drive:\flat Then press ENTER, where drive is the drive that contains the flat folder you made in step 4. After the files have been copied to the flat folder, change to the drive
where you copied the flat folder. For example, to change to drive C, type:
| c: Then press ENTER. Type: | |
-
cd flat
Then press ENTER. - Type:
setup
Then press ENTER. Windows Me Setup should now restart.
After all devices have been detected and the computer has been restarted for the second time, the "Setting up Hardware and Finalizing System Settings" procedure occurs. PNP devices that have been detected are set up, followed by setting up the Control Panel, Start Menu and Windows Help. This is all being run from the following keys in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\RunOnce
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\RunOnceEx
Failures at this point in Setup, which include the items that are run from the RunOnceEx key are logged in the following location Windows\RunOnceEx Log.txt file. At this point, you are in Windows Me for the first time, and the Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 files are being installed. This process concludes with the third restart, and then the desktop is displayed with the "Welcome to Windows Millennium Edition" message.