WINXP

[arbntmare]

I am going to install winxp pro soon, and i was wondering how should i install it. I think I want to keep win2k there just incase it screws up.. I already have my hd's partitioned and i have 3 gigs empty partition for winxp... here the deal

i have an amd 1400 mhz on a via chipset kt266
i have geforce 2 mx
i have a philips acoustic edge
and i have a tekram scsi card
i have a dvd drive
i have a yamaha scsi cdrw
and i have a netgear net card...

i think thats all i have

how should i go about installing it?? i know the order of installing things is a very important deal in in stalling an operating system

thank you

 

[richleader]

Well, I'd definitely want to give it more than 3 gigs, if you're not going to trust winxp as your main OS, why bother?

Install XP. Install the via 4 in 1's. Install the latest detonators. Get online and go to windowsupdate.com and run the auto updater. Then hunt around for your other drivers.

 

[arbntmare]

3 gigs was enough for me.. i still have 500megs free on that partition, i don't install anything else on it except the operating system

 

[madthumbs]

I wouldn't bother dual booting 2000 and xp either. If you're gonna dual boot, at least choose an OS that is significantly different like linux, me, or 98se.

 

[arbntmare]

well for the moment i have winxp, win2k, and mandrake... i am keeping win2k for a bit till i move completely to winxp, i might have to format to do that tho.. reason is it takes me a great of time to migrate

 

[holycow]

i've used both win2k and winxp pro.. there aren't much difference between win2k and winxp, except the theme(skin).. after all win2k is nt 5 and winxp is nt 5.1, so if win2k works well for you, you should stick with it.. you should be able to do an upgrade from win2k to winxp if you want to migrate to winxp from win2k..