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Win mE The preloaded type

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by sjwfwork

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I have recently bought a laptop of quite a reasonable spec, The o's is "me" and is pre-loaded,I managed to burn a copy off of the restore c.d for future use in the event of putting it on one of our site machines, am I likely to experience any problems, I have run it up and it seems ok, but it could'nt find a couple of files on hardware setup, which I eventually had to skip as the machine was unable to find the files on the d drive 9x, would the vendors have twisted any of the settings to prevent my use
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by dmiles

A restore is made from the machine that you burn the copy from,which in turn copies all the files from the current system ,the files it could not find are the files that are different on the machines,it is programmed to load files for the machine that it was built from,you will have the same problem when it runs on other machines,when it cannot locate the harware that drivers need to be loaded for
No it is not the vendors,but what you are trying to do that is causing the problem.
The problem will be that when you try to load the restore on another machine and that the programmed code does not match up with machine you are loading it on.
The key is pre-programmed on the disk,it will not work on other machines

by b.scott1

Most restore cd's have the OS software as well as the hardware specific drivers that were configured for that particular box. Since you specified it was hardware setup files it could not find, I'm betting that when you use the restore CD the CD was burned with the default hardware configuration for the box it was sold with and since you are putting it on another box, the configuration is different and it cannot find the necessary driver files.

If you can at least get ME to load, you may be able to bypass the driver installation, run in safe mode, and then install the drivers for the current hardware conifguration so that ME can load them on it's next full boot. (Assuming that everything is plug and play).

by sjwfwork

Did not burn the whole restore cd just the cabs, tried on new machine and o.k,had problems when trying to reload me on laptop, eventualy had to go for a full restore,other wise fine, Ithink your answer would be spot on if I had burnrd the whole restore cd's

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