Continuing my late Windows takeups.

amazeer Bishop of Volkswagenism

3,029 posts · joined Nov 2005 · 20 Aug 2006, 6:31 pm

#524615

When everyone else had 95, i bought my Win3.1. When 98 came out, I went to 3.11 and didnt see a difference. When everyone had Win2k, I got 98. When everyone went to XP, I got 2000. Today, just because my norton has pissed me off one too many times, I bought XP pro... but SP1. Going to do a full format, start over again.

What kind of nasty tricks is this going to throw at me when I install? Do I have to have SATA drivers on hand (like I needed with 2K) or will XP have them?

pod i`ve got to finish this thing one day

4,980 posts · joined Dec 2003 · 20 Aug 2006, 6:35 pm

#524620

should be sweet as 😵 when i loaded xp on my sons amd with a sata drive i had no probs

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6,661 posts · joined Apr 2005 · 20 Aug 2006, 6:44 pm

#524626

can't u get a free download to upgrade to SP2 off net?

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Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,789 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 20 Aug 2006, 7:35 pm

#524647

I have it on CD if you want a copy

takes FOREVER to get it off the net

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amazeer Bishop of Volkswagenism

3,029 posts · joined Nov 2005 · 20 Aug 2006, 7:43 pm

#524652

Yeah, you can download. When it came out everything I read said not to bother. I'm not bothered, I'll be happy to get rid of all the uni crap off my computer, especially Oracle which I reckon quadrupled the boot up time.

To go to current spec would be tempting fate :P

amazeer Bishop of Volkswagenism

3,029 posts · joined Nov 2005 · 22 Aug 2006, 9:55 am

#525282

I bit the bullet. 10GB of crap I had to back up!

I've got XP installed. it DID give me hassles with the SATA drivers. The ones I downloaded from Gigabyte's website didnt work (???) but eventually I found the disk that came with the motherboard and all went well.

so far.

Still need to get the sound going, ADSL going, but I'm assuming I shouldnt have too much hassle with those. Didnt feel like starting that at 11pm.

71superbug The Itch Itcher

1,184 posts · joined May 2004 · 22 Aug 2006, 11:45 am

#525307

amazeer wrote:I bought XP pro.

theres your first mistake 🙂

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DoNkEy Wolfsburg Wizard

684 posts · joined Jul 2003 · 23 Aug 2006, 6:00 pm

#525866

amazeer wrote:Still need to get the sound going, ADSL going, but I'm assuming I shouldnt have too much hassle with those. Didnt feel like starting that at 11pm.

ADSL eh, so how did you post that? :P

amazeer Bishop of Volkswagenism

3,029 posts · joined Nov 2005 · 23 Aug 2006, 6:30 pm

#525880

that was easy. posted during business hours, I was at work.

latest update is that I am going to start over again. I've got everything working.. but there are errors at startup.

First it was telling me that NTLDR was missing, sorted that, now it says something wrong with boot.ini. It still boots fine, but with the error. It may have something to do with the SATA HD. For whatever reason it has named it D: and the other IDE hard drive that I use for backing up as C: Maybe it doesnt like booting from a D: drive. So I will disconnect the drive and install again, see what happens.