Differences Between the Full Retail Setup Disk and the Emergency Boot Disk

The Setup disk that is included with the full retail version of Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) is intended to help install Windows Me on a computer that does not have an existing operating system.

The Emergency Boot Disk, which is created during Windows Me Setup, or from Add/Remove Programs, is designed to assist in troubleshooting procedures.

Below is a more detailed discussion of the differences between the Setup disk, and the Emergency Boot Disk.

Setup Disk

The Setup disk has Autoexec.bat entries that default to launch the Oemsetup.exe on the full retail Windows Me CD-ROM.

The Setup disk does not have Hibinv.exe, or Ebdundo.bat.

For additional information about Hibinv.exe, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: For additional information about Ebdundo.bat, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Boot Options for the Setup Disk

• Start Windows Setup from CD-ROM
• Start computer with CD-ROM support
• Start computer without CD-ROM support

Emergency Boot Disk

The Emergency Boot Disk creates a RAM drive, and extracts the following files to it:

• Attrib.exe
• Chkdsk.exe
• Command.com
• Debug.exe
• Edit.com
• Ext.exe
• Extract.exe
• Format.com
• Help.bat
• Mscdex.exe
• Readme.txt
• Scandisk.exe
• Scandisk.ini
• Sys.com

Boot Options for the Emergency Boot Disk

• Help
• Start computer with CD-ROM support
• Start computer without CD-ROM support
• Minimal Boot