So, I'm given a computer w/ Windows ME. It won't run old educational software for my kids. I assume that it shouldn't - ME won't run 95/98 compatible software - & my problem isn't elsewhere? I loaded it without knowing/thinking. It locked up and 'has issues.' A big concern is that I loaded a program (Venture Africa Wildlife Tycoon – if you care) that SHOULD work on Windows ME. It didn't. Also, a CD drive just 'went away.' Luckily (maybe) the computer has 2 CD drives. Now the CD drive that had been the E: drive (which went crazy when installing kids software) is gone. Now, the E: drive is the CD/RW which had been the F: drive. The CD drive (formerly E:) is ‘not there’ – it doesn’t open with the button being pushed. Can I just get windows 98SE and install it to run the old software? FYI on the computer... Total Physical Memory 319.51 MB Available Physical Memory 106.51 MB Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB Available Virtual Memory 1.68 GB any other info. needed? & I trust the source of the PC, doubt that is the source of problems... -- sully
some older games will not run on a system with NTFS fie system...ME is the first windows ver.. that gave choice of this... you can re-format your drive too FAT 16 or 32 if you have original Win ME cd and try that... or wipe the drive and use 98... as it's default is a FAT 32 formated drive. if you have a dos boot disk... run fdisk.exe.... it will let you look at the current type of format on your drives.. PattieB "sully" wrote in message news:F321C8A0-4A7D-4C55-A00B-136D3D307205@microsoft.com... > So, I'm given a computer w/ Windows ME. It won't run old educational > software for my kids. I assume that it shouldn't - ME won't run 95/98 > compatible software - & my problem isn't elsewhere? I loaded it without > knowing/thinking. It locked up and 'has issues.' > A big concern is that I loaded a program (Venture Africa Wildlife Tycoon - > if you care) that SHOULD work on Windows ME. It didn't. Also, a CD drive > just 'went away.' Luckily (maybe) the computer has 2 CD drives. Now the > CD > drive that had been the E: drive (which went crazy when installing kids > software) is gone. Now, the E: drive is the CD/RW which had been the F: > drive. The CD drive (formerly E:) is 'not there' - it doesn't open with > the > button being pushed. > > Can I just get windows 98SE and install it to run the old software? > > FYI on the computer... > Total Physical Memory 319.51 MB > Available Physical Memory 106.51 MB > Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB > Available Virtual Memory 1.68 GB > > any other info. needed? & I trust the source of the PC, doubt that is the > source of problems... > -- > sully
