Re: Reinstall xp
- From: D.B. <DB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:27:02 -0700
Hi Malke.
I will try the laptop cd. Asfar as the drivers for the hardware, I don't
think there is anything original left. When I bought the computer I knew less
than zero so I took what the Dell salesman recommended. My mistake. It had
128 Mb. of ram, 20 Gb.hard drive, 1.7 Ghz. processor,1 cd-rw drive,1 floppy
drive, 16 Mb.video card and on-board sound. Since than I have replaced the
ram with 1 Gb.,a sound blaster audigy card, a new modem, up graded to a 64
Mb. video card, added a new key board and track-ball mouse, added a
second,now bad, 120 Gb. harddrive, added a usb 2 pci card, and firewire and
midi ports, and added 2 new speakers with a sub woofer. I just bought two
new 100 Gb. harddrives,(i'm going to replace the bad one and the original), a
new 256 Mb. video card and a 2.6 Mhz. processor.
The chipset is only an Intel 845 and is supported natively by XP.
Since I'm going to install the new boot drive before I load Windows AND the
new drives are less than 137 Gb., I should not be affected by the size
limitations. Also, I think we only used about 40 Gb. of the old harddrives
combined so 200 Gb's. should be sufficient and aesy for maintenance duties
such as defrag..etc.
I 'm glad I was able to do all of these upgrades because this has been an
invaluable learning experience.
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As always thanks for any and all responses.
"Malke" wrote:
D.B. wrote:.
Hi Malke.
I understand. Will use the COA sticker.
The laptop and desk top cd's are of the same "flavor" i.e. both are XP
home. The only difference,other than color, are the newer, laptop cd
has SP2. I have tried to slipstream SP2 onto a disc with XP home. I
thought I did it right and used it periodically to run SFC /SCANNOW.
However, when I tried to do a repair install 4 weeks ago before I
realized my drive was failing, it kept saying that it needed to access
files on one of my drives that was unavailable. I attribute this to
probably not burning it properly as I believe the image files for the
ISO burn were placed on the drive it was asking to access.
At the time, I tried to use autostreamer but wound up wasting 3 or 4
discs in the process. Ultimately, I followed instructions from one of
the MVP's site and thought it was a sucessful burn.
Thanks
It may have been a successful burn and you may be having more than just
hard drive problems. There's no way for me to know.
You should be able to use the laptop cd - try it, it won't hurt! If it
doesn't work, then you'll need to do the slipstreaming. After you
install XP, don't forget to install Dell's hardware drivers for the
desktop. Don't use the Dell Resource CD from the laptop!
If you have lost your Dell Resource CD for the desktop, go to Dell's
tech support site for your specific model machine and download drivers
ahead of time.
Malke
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