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FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK; Oh, and FUCK!!
Topic Started: Mar 3 2006, 04:20 PM (338 Views)
herosrest
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Cheers, no probs... l found a l'il install trick messin around wiv Xp ages ago - but it ain't for the wild.

Anyways, nice ta meet ya. :fart:
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Johnny Fist
Mar 5 2006, 01:34 PM
werz
Mar 5 2006, 01:20 PM
There is no way I would need all that HD room, shit out of 120gig, and 3 years I still have 60gig free space. If I new what was safe to delete I would have heaps more space, I was looking at my temp files and if I new what was safe to delete, I get it cleaned out. But I know fuck all about it, so if it's running well enough, why tamper with it.
This socket A board is a gigabyte, it's been great, the two before were ASUS they were shit, and expensive, I had a 266mhz socket 7 gigabyte MB which was a good board, they wouldn't get the use any of zibbys boards do.
I've been so happy with this nForce2 gigabyte board and it's onboard sata, LAN 10/100 port, the onboard sound is ok, and I love the BIOS drivers upgrade, which is done online, no fuckin about with floppies. When I upgrade eventually to nForce4 I will get another gigabyte board.

A man of your age probably won't get the opportunity to upgrade much more before its time to pass on.

:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Zybch
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herosrest
Mar 5 2006, 09:36 PM
Cheers, no probs... l found a l'il install trick messin around wiv Xp ages ago - but it ain't for the wild.

Anyways, nice ta meet ya. :fart:

Well I wasn't gonna make any ghost images and stuff before I knew the system was working properly. That what you were talking bout?

The PC has been working perfectly so far. That means that I got a final win install to go, coz this current one was a rush/test job, and then I'll ghost the bugger.
I just bought a USB HDD enclosure thats uses SATA so that solves another of my probs. When I get the gigabyte board replaced I'll use the remaining SATA drives jn that.
Gonna sell the NAS box though. Transferring 400Gb of stuff (so I could format the IDE drives and install XP to them) over a 100mbps connection was just too painful :(
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genesound
Mar 6 2006, 09:34 AM
Johnny Fist
Mar 5 2006, 01:34 PM
werz
Mar 5 2006, 01:20 PM
There is no way I would need all that HD room, shit out of 120gig, and 3 years I still have 60gig free space. If I new what was safe to delete I would have heaps more space, I was looking at my temp files and if I new what was safe to delete, I get it cleaned out. But I know fuck all about it, so if it's running well enough, why tamper with it.
This socket A board is a gigabyte, it's been great, the two before were ASUS they were shit, and expensive, I had a 266mhz socket 7 gigabyte MB which was a good board, they wouldn't get the use any of zibbys boards do.
I've been so happy with this nForce2 gigabyte board and it's onboard sata, LAN 10/100 port, the onboard sound is ok, and I love the BIOS drivers upgrade, which is done online, no fuckin about with floppies. When I upgrade eventually to nForce4 I will get another gigabyte board.

A man of your age probably won't get the opportunity to upgrade much more before its time to pass on.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

nobody knows what fate has instore for us. don't assume you will out live me,
especially when you live in the wild west, murderville.
and drive a ford.
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Johnny Fist
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I don't live in the wild west.
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Oh well two outta three aint bad.
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herosrest
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xp can be installed multiple times to any system.
On the same drive, partioned drives, seperate drives.
Dead easy - start another install routine and think thru the setup options as they present.
Big deal, so what...

Lets say

C: XP
D: Data
E: Paging
F: XP (backup)

The install routine sets up boot options for each copy.
C: goes South - just boot into F.

Protect the mbr in bios and set F: drive hidden if you dont want it bothering you.

This was the boot.ini from the browsing box l use-

[boot loader]
timeout=29
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /SOS
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /SOS

It's a bit different now - l loaded up Zeta this morning to play with.


This works and is a life saver.




This was SP1 - but l can't see that anything in 2 will trip it up.

There was XP - l got to know it. Then SP1, same... fuck the rest l said to SP2 and a constant stream of updates... l don't stay on line 24/7 anyway - it's dumb for so many reasons if u don't run a server.

Another aid - Format your own drive for XP before it installs (fat32)- using the old system command and there u r with the drive bootable to the command prompt.
It stays that way after XP is on board.
Fat32 - who needs ntfs - it's a time bomb with ADS.
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I have no idea what the HeLL he just said.
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genesound
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He said he doesn't like ntfs and you can install multiple instances of XP on one machine. If one fails you just use another to fix the other one. He also said you can format in fat32 and set up the machine to boot to DOS before you install XP. Then at least if your system gets corrupted you can still access the root drive.



I used to do the multiple boot thing for just that way back on NT4.0.

The advantages to ntfs also create the difficulties if you have a failure.

There are utilities that will allow you to read and write to ntfs from DOS, maybe not free ones, but it seems pretty simple to set one up to boot and run DOS from CD and a floppy... I haven't bothered since I haven't had any of these problems, and I always have more than one machine up at a time anyhow to work from in a pinch. I also keep the I386 folder of the windows setup disk stored locally on every machine ;)
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