Microsoft Windows Boot Disk ME

These disks are original boot floppy disk media for use with Microsoft Windows CD-ROMs. Not all Windows 9x/ME CDs are bootable, not all CDs included boot disks, and DOS will not see a CD-ROM drive unless a driver is loaded. OEMs were expected to provide compatible CD-ROM with the boot media provided with their systems. However towards the very late 90s, most vendors standardized on IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM hardware and the use of the OEM Adaption Kit (OAK) driver. If your CD drive is not IDE compatible (such as an MKE or Panasonic interface) you must manually add your own driver. Note: you can use the Windows 98 boot disk with Windows 95 to make things easier. If you have any UNTOUCHED OEM boot disks with different drivers, please submit them.



Release notes

Boots using "MS-DOS 8.0".

Note: Microsoft crippled certain aspects of this version of DOS. If you need to run any other DOS programs besides Windows Setup, we recommend you use a Windows 98 SE version instead.

Product type
System
Vendor
Microsoft
Release date
2000
Minimum CPU
386
User interface
Text
Platform
DOS
Download count
370 (28 for release)

Downloads

Download name Version Language Architecture File size Downloads
Microsoft Windows ME - Boot Disk (3.5-1.44mb) ME English 647.87KB 28

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