Installing Windows XP

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Aha, when you are right, you're right sir. Is this something that I can ensure doesn't happen via BIOS then, if I direct it to boot from my new whatever-the-letter-will-be-drive? So far as I know, my old C: drive still has Windows Me on it

 

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These might help:
Microsoft link
Generic link

 

God bless you and all who sail in you BM

 

Glad to be of assistance, my friend.

 

Keep us posted on how goes cockles, should go fine with everything thats been said.

It can be a pain if you have to format as I did.

 

Afternoon lad

After reading over everything from you chaps, think I've got a plan now.

I currently run two drives, a 17GB C: drive I literally just use for storage, and my main 40GB G drive that runs programmes and has the active partition. I'm going to buy myself a big old 250-320 GB (depending on the pennies) to replace the C: So I'll back up all I need from C: take the C: out, stick in the new one, format it, shift EVERYTHING from G: to the new one, install my new XP SP1 on the G: and use the G: drive just to run Windows and the new drive for storage and applications. This way I thought there is minimum risk of losing anything and should hopefully lead to a far more efficient machine. Plus, as I am using the same drive that was running Windows anyway, there should be minimum conflict risk

Thanks for all the help though from you all. As I have never done this before, seeing words like format, back-up and total date erase is quite daunting

 

Sounds ok to me dude