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A friend of mine reinstalled, and it never prompted him to choose a destination to install to. When he installed, he assumed it would be C: and keep his other partitions in tact. When he got into windows, he saw it wiped his other partitions. Can you believe it? How do you get XP not to wipe over all partitions and merge them into C: ????
Madness...stick with 2000, way more stable.
If yyou boot from the CD-Rom and go through the loading system tools screens, it will eventually show a screen which displays all the patitions on the computer, this stage also allows you to format them, delete them etc.
But what you also get is the choice of which partition to install windows onto.
Just select the partition you want to install the OS onto and you should be ok.
Ta m8. Just found out he used a recovery disc, that was the prob. Thought he was using XP disc. You are right! Thanks
Mr_Nemesis
28-10-2002, 23:54
None of the recovery discs I've ever used have deleted my partitions... they just copied the hidden partition to the specified area of that HD, and so long as this didn't coincide with any partition boundaries, all was well and good.
On a side note though, there are plenty of horror stories associated with XP installs. MAte of mine had his entire linux partitions deleted when XP detected them as "bad blocks".
Just to echo the sentiment - stick with 2000. Way more stable :)
PJ Matthews
29-10-2002, 01:37
Naa - XP all the way. :D
The Pimp
29-10-2002, 01:40
Originally posted by PJ Matthews:
<STRONG>Naa - XP all the way. :D</STRONG>
I agree there 100% as well. 2000 was stable but XP beats it hands down. If you cannot get XP to be stable, then give up as you are doing something wrong either in the hardware or software configuration. Blunt, but perfectly true.
I beg to differ, but we all have our sentiments! Thanks for the help anyways.
DarkEntity
29-10-2002, 19:13
XP rox i find it very stable and have no probs where win2k was a hassle i found
Mr_Nemesis
30-10-2002, 01:48
I've had 2k running at 4-5 week uptimes running our OCR software (but we're gonna switch to UNIX eventually :D) along with a bunch of other stuff after heavy tweakage.
On the other hand, the XP boxes at the office and a load we administer for one of our clients we have no end of trouble with, even after even more tweakage.
I'll admit that when it comes to stuff like games, 2k is less stable (since it was never designed to run games well) but for mission critical apps I wouldn't use anything else.
Yes, Windows XP is stable, but not as stable as 2k and nowhere near as stable as *nix, naturally...
Not to say your experience is wrong, but IMO XP just ain't worth the hassle for product activation and a hateful GUI. Oh, and Microsoft.
*shrugs and walks away*
The Pimp
30-10-2002, 10:57
Hateful GUI? Very strange as my desktop looks exactly as it did when I was running W2K!!
4-5 weeks uptime? Not long at all. I have one system here running XP that hasn't been rebooted for over 22 weeks & is still running exactly the same as it did upon that initial reboot.
Product Activation? The only people who disagree with WPA are the ones who condone piracy. Sorry, but that is fact. 30 seconds is all it takes to activate XP. Changing hardware doesn't give any cause for alarm neither. After I changed the majority of the guts on this system I am using presently, all I needed to do was to call a freephone number, read out some numbers and input some numbers the MS CSR read out to me. Less than 4 minutes on the phone and no questions asked. The only blue screens I have seen were caused by Zone Alarm Pro. Changed firewall and not had a BSOD since.
Mr_Nemesis
30-10-2002, 23:59
Originally posted by Darren Wilson:
<STRONG>Product Activation? The only people who disagree with WPA are the ones who condone piracy. Sorry, but that is fact.</STRONG>
As a person with no pirated material at all (unless you count the ogg's of radio show's I've recorded), I would prefer it if you changed that to "The only people who disagree with WPA are the ones who condone privacy." Piracy has nothing to do with it, WPA was cracked hours after hitting the shelves.
I don't feel comfortable with an OS that continually bugs me for my personal data, thankyou very much. Especially coming from a company with a track record like microsofts.
You seem to have had better experience with XP than me. But if you'll excuse me, I'll stick to the stuff I'm comfortable with and one that works more reliably for me and for everyone else I know who uses 2k and XP.
:)
PJ Matthews
31-10-2002, 02:19
XP - Running on my mini server 24/7, its been up for 4 months now. No down time, no reboots.
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