A Little Help

Mastodon

<div class="IPBDescription">with Windows</div> I know I should probably be posting this on a Microsoft forum somewhere but those people are jerks. So I'll seek advice from my NS compatriots.

I have a 20gig hd with <b>Windows 2k</b> on it right now for my OS. I have a secondary 40g hd as well. I want to make that leap to Windows XP because, basically, 2k sucks and XP is a lot prettier. <i>So</i>, instead of going through the trouble of taking off Windows 2k and formatting my primary drive (which is the eventual goal I'm after) with that awful Disk Manager tool -- 2k doesn't use fdisk -- can I just install XP on my secondary drive? It should be possible but what steps do I need to go through beforehand? Can I install it from 2k? Do I need to do something with secondary drive?

Theoretically once I get XP up on the larger drive I can format my smaller drive from there, right?

Please help.

ParisofTroy

Or you can just format the win2k drive, then use a win98 boot disk/cd, startup computer with cd support, insert winXP cd goto the i386 dir and type "winnt" without the quotes and XP installs be sure to get SP1 for XP and if you have a choice get XP Pro not Home.

GreyPaws

First off 2k doesnt suck, its better then XP Home and the same as XP pro, secondly your OS has to be on your Primary HD, and thirdly all you have to do is put the XP disk in your CD-ROM and just like 2k it will format your primary drive and install on its own.

Thansal

^^^^^^^ wise man

basicaly, 2K is rather better then xp home simply b/c you have faster and better acces to alot of thing (xp home is a dumbed down OS)
XP Pro, meh, about the same as 2K

as for 'how to install an os'

take CD, stick in drive, reboot, tell your bios to check that drive first,
reformat
reinstall

gg

Talesin

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Your OS does *not* need to be on the Primary Master HDD. It's just the boot sector that usually has to be there, unless you go through and assign another drive as the active. I've got Linux on my primary, XP tossed on a tertiary, and LILO handling hexmapping the drive so XP won't throw a temper tantrum. But I could easily set my primary master HDD to simply be storage, keeping LILO in the MBR, or set another drive as MBR-active.

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CommunistWithAGun

Or you could stick with Win2k...Its alot better, and I find it to be alot more stable. It sure isn't pretty looking but looks don't matter...XP is a resource hog (Detects impending Monse flame)


Buuuuut if you must


Get your windows XP cd...and follow the onscreen instuctions, heh

ANeM

The best way to run XP is with all the pretty stuff off, the pretty stuff can take 25-75 extra megs of ram.
Just stick with the OS you have, You don't need pretty. NS runs better without Pretty. Pretty is the evil.

Mastodon

<!--QuoteBegin--CommunistWithAGun+Sep 16 2003, 10:26 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CommunistWithAGun @ Sep 16 2003, 10:26 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Or you could stick with Win2k...Its alot better, and I find it to be alot more stable. It sure isn't pretty looking but looks don't matter...XP is a resource hog (Detects impending Monse flame)


Buuuuut if you must


Get your windows XP cd...and follow the onscreen instuctions, heh <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
See, I'm under the impression that 2k is a resource hawg as well. There are so many bloody background applications running that I'm too afraid to shut off and they take up a lot of virtual memory. Is there a way of cutting down on these things?

eViL_tHe_CaT

evil answer:
<span style='color:red'>*NUKED.* Even evil people are required to follow the forum rules.</span>

alternative answer:
if you install XP you will NOT be able to play games properly.

CForrester

<!--QuoteBegin--eViL tHe CaT+Sep 17 2003, 02:11 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (eViL tHe CaT @ Sep 17 2003, 02:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> if you install XP you will NOT be able to play games properly. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Not true. I've never had a problem with any games.

pardzh

Gee, I'm thinking stick with 2K here.

The few times I've used 2K for a while I've liked it a lot better than XP, which I have installed on my computer. As for graphics... WTH? I stripped all the fancy graphics crap off of my install of XP, since it just eats up RAM anyway. I never did care for the blue-fadey-blending look...

If you really want to, go XP Pro, but until 2K is completely phased out, it's probably money you don't need to spend.

OttoDestruct

Read monse's guide at readyroom.org about services and shut them off, that should boost performance, and also you might want to grab msconfig (an xp utility, but you can use it with 2k, search forums for it).

Xodlike

you guys mustve not seen teh oold 2k betas as i am a beta tester for ms i can say tat 2k DOES NOT SUCK.it does almost the same as winxp pro except less prettier however with being less prettier comes less resources of the comp being used mainly round explorer.exe.However Sp1 does make Xp better.