How to cut down Bar Man's daily posting average

[Barman]

I fixed it... 

Windows 95?

Nope! 

[Barman]

Well I managed to put it all back together…

I couldn’t get Windows XP to install on the new hardware even with the SATA drivers from Intel’s web site.

In desperation I decided to re-load Vista on the box but the recovery disc wouldn’t boot either (formatted the disc and copied all the files but no-can-do-boot.

So now I had a box that wouldn’t run its original Vista operating system and couldn’t be loaded with XP. The only thing that seemed logical (other than take it back to the shop where they wanted €187 to stick XP Pro on it) was to stick a copy of linux on (at least I could use it then).

So I popped-in a linux DVD and away it went – installed and booted first time although it did have to adjust the disc partitions as it said there were ‘two overlapping’ (?). Linux ran fine but I wondered if the partitioning was the problem…

So, back out with the XP discs and floppy with the drivers on it – went through the installation and bingo the system booted.

So after a mind boggling amount of software installing and update downloading I am up-and-running with XP. 

[Nick]

Que?

[Grumpmeister]

Well I managed to put it all back together…

I couldn’t get Windows XP to install on the new hardware even with the SATA drivers from Intel’s web site.

In desperation I decided to re-load Vista on the box but the recovery disc wouldn’t boot either (formatted the disc and copied all the files but no-can-do-boot.

So now I had a box that wouldn’t run its original Vista operating system and couldn’t be loaded with XP. The only thing that seemed logical (other than take it back to the shop where they wanted €187 to stick XP Pro on it) was to stick a copy of linux on (at least I could use it then).

So I popped-in a linux DVD and away it went – installed and booted first time although it did have to adjust the disc partitions as it said there were ‘two overlapping’ (?). Linux ran fine but I wondered if the partitioning was the problem…

So, back out with the XP discs and floppy with the drivers on it – went through the installation and bingo the system booted.

So after a mind boggling amount of software installing and update downloading I am up-and-running with XP. 

Have to pur SP2 on yet...... 

[Barman]

Well I managed to put it all back together…

I couldn’t get Windows XP to install on the new hardware even with the SATA drivers from Intel’s web site.

In desperation I decided to re-load Vista on the box but the recovery disc wouldn’t boot either (formatted the disc and copied all the files but no-can-do-boot.

So now I had a box that wouldn’t run its original Vista operating system and couldn’t be loaded with XP. The only thing that seemed logical (other than take it back to the shop where they wanted €187 to stick XP Pro on it) was to stick a copy of linux on (at least I could use it then).

So I popped-in a linux DVD and away it went – installed and booted first time although it did have to adjust the disc partitions as it said there were ‘two overlapping’ (?). Linux ran fine but I wondered if the partitioning was the problem…

So, back out with the XP discs and floppy with the drivers on it – went through the installation and bingo the system booted.

So after a mind boggling amount of software installing and update downloading I am up-and-running with XP. 

Have to pur SP2 on yet...... 

SP2... do they have that on computers now? 

[Grumpmeister]

Service Pack 2 BM. Depending on how recent your copy of XP is it may be included in the install. If not its a load of 'fixes' to Windows. At least it is as long as you get the latest version. The original version knackered more computers than Nick on friday 13th

[Barman]

Service Pack 2 BM. Depending on how recent your copy of XP is it may be included in the install. If not its a load of 'fixes' to Windows. At least it is as long as you get the latest version. The original version knackered more computers than Nick on friday 13th

Nah. did all that, started off with an old copy so the disc space was limited to 138Gbytes but then downloaded all the patches, fixes, updates and service packs for XP and office... plus IE7 and Media Player 11, etc.