Re: Installing XP Home

From: William Hill (re4med_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/19/04 

Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:27:51 -0400

Ok...I appreciate these answers.

Here is my plan:

1. Backup data that I would like to keep.
2. PHYSICALLY remove the existing C drive (5.2GB)
3. Change the D drive so that is sits in position 1 on the 80-pin cable and
change the jumpers to make it a MASTER.
4. Power up machine so that the BIOS sees the change and also BOOTS from
the CD-ROM (I do have the ability to do this in my BIOS)
5. Install XP as usual which should give me the option to format the drive
I am installing to. (I have the Upgrade so I am assuming that I will be
asked for verification of EULA for the upgrade. I do have the 98 CD)
6. Re-install my applications (ugh!)
7. Live happily ever after! :)

Does this make sense?

William Hill
Virginia, USA
"R. C. White" <rc@corridor.net> wrote in message
news:uf36nFftEHA.2516@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hi, William - and Mike.
>
> I'd just like to emphasize Mike's point about leaving the old drive
> disconnected until after WinXP is installed on the new drive. If WinXP
> Setup detects the existing Active (bootable) partition on the old drive,
it
> will let that partition keep "drive" letter C:, assigning a new letter to
> the first partition on your 40 GB HD. From then on, your "system
partition"
> will be D:, not C: - and there's no good way to make it C: without
> installing WinXP AGAIN!
>
> After WinXP is up and running on your 40 GB HD, go ahead and plug in your
> 5.2 GB as secondary or slave and use Disk Management to assign whatever
> drive letter(s) you'd like to see. You may then use Disk Management to do
> whatever you like with that old HD: repartition? reformat? keep it as
is?
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc@corridor.net
> Microsoft Windows MVP
>
> "Mike Hall" <mike.hall.mail@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:efP0%23qetEHA.2688@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> > If you have the space on the current C drive, save all important files
to
> > it.. then re-jumper the D drive to master, disconnect the current C
Drive,
> > reformat the NEW master and load XP onto it.. now you can connect the
old
> > C drive back up as a slave and remove the old XP installation from it..
> > you can leave your important stuff on the old C as backup..
> >
> > You will, of course, have to reload all other software..
> >
> >
> > "William Hill" <re4med@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:%239CByjetEHA.3564@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> >> Ok here are my parameters:
> >>
> >> 1.33 GHX AMD Athlon
> >> 768 MB RAM
> >> 64 MB video card....
> >> 2 Hard Disks: NTFS file system
> >> C: 5.2 GB
> >> D: 40 GB
> >> CDR
> >> CD Drive
> >>
> >> Here is what I would like to do. My C drive is rather full (268 MB).
I
> >> would like to make my D drive the boot drive by reformatting and
> >> reinstalling Windows XP Home to it. I have installed many programs to
D.
> >> I
> >> own all the software so re-installing is not an issue. I own the XP
> >> upgrade
> >> CD. Should I format C and D and then clean install by booting from the
> >> CD
> >> (I have the option of doing so in my BIOS). If anyone has some easy
> >> steps I
> >> would appreciate it. What steps? dangers? etc...
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> William Hill
> >> Virginia, USA
>

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