Are you booting from a floppy boot disk, or directly from the
CD-ROM as a bootable CD?
The files may only be available if you boot from the CD itself.

This might be especially important if the CD is an UpDate or
UpGrade version of ME. (Since files would not be on the
HD after a format...)

                          Rick Glazier
                                                  .
----- Original Message -----
From: "John F. Matula"
> I have re-formatted a new hard drive using Maxtor Max-Blast. I have
> set the partitions, and am now trying to load MS ME operating system. When I
> put the boot disk in and try to start setup from the cd rom, I get the error
> reading "This program cannot run in DOS mode".
>
> What files am I missing? Where do I get them?

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