Originally posted by Squirrel God
Put the WinXP CD in your CD-ROM drive.
Originally posted by Squirrel God
Make sure you delete the previous partition(s) and then create a new partition(s).
Whoops! SorryOriginally posted by Shoka
I've got win ME - does it make a difference?
Originally posted by Squirrel God
Whoops! Sorry
You should really consider upgrading to Win2000 or WinXP though. ME is an awful OS - you only realise just how error-ridden, unreliable and slow it is when you start using Win2k or XP (Win2k was the first decent OS that Microsoft produced IMO).
You assume wrongOriginally posted by minimad
I'm assuming you never played with NT?
NT is good when compared with 95, 98 and ME; but pales in comparison to 2k and XP for reliability and feature support. 2k almost made the BSOD disappear completely - and let's be fair, even then, it only really comes up when there's a hardware failure Businesses don't upgrade because they've learned to live with the flaws of NT (although it's taken 6 SPs to "heal it") and there's the "better the devil you know" attitude as well. Upgrading would cost them money too.Originally posted by minimad
The best for corporate systems for years. Most places are still using it over XP or 2000. I hate NT since I've used XP but, as I use (and support) it every day, 5 days a week, I know NT quite well, and it's not that bad. OK, no USB, but hey, it's an old OS!
ME was a step backwards if you ask me. I've had all versions of Windows installed on my home and work PCs from Win3.0 onwards (brought up in the land of DOS however ), EXCEPT for Windows ME - I think I'm not alone in choosing to avoid that one as you have demonstrated!Originally posted by minimad
I'm using XP because I wanted to upgerade from 98 and refused to use ME 'cos it was that bad. It went on my system and came off again within 20 minutes. Been using XP since September '01 with no major glitches at all!
Originally posted by Squirrel God
I've had all versions of Windows installed on my home and work PCs from Win3.0 onwards (brought up in the land of DOS however ),
Unfortunately not, but "ancestor" of DOS anyway so I don't feel too dismayed at that. Had a play about with DR-DOS many moons ago though.Originally posted by Ian J
How about CPM ?
Can some one help me before I smash the damm thing up.
press Delete on start up.Originally posted by Shoka
Argggh
I'm having a major nightmare.
I can't get into the bios to change it either.
Originally posted by Squirrel God
You don't want to be booting from a boot floppy disk.
Originally posted by Shoka
it just went straight into a dos prompt