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Bruce McGee
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular.
Registered: Aug 1999

posted 08-21-2006 08:24 AM

Can this be explained to an idiot? ME?

My computer came with 2000 installed. I bought XP professional from Microjunk. It sucked it right off the disc. Now, on start-up, Im always asked which system to use. Have to pick one or the other, or it doesent continue.

XP is installed on my E drive. 2000 is on the C drive.

Ran a new Norton 2006 anti-virus this weekend. It found lots of problems on the 2000 parts of the system, and little on the XP areas. Its running OK this morning, I think.

Info:

Dell Optiplex GX-110 computer

Western Digital 80 gig drive (E)

Pentium III

Any suggestions for a guy that can barely type?

Thanks in ADVANCE!

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Daniel Wright
Expert Film Handler

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From: Okmulgee, Ok , USA
Registered: Oct 2003

posted 08-21-2006 08:52 AM

If the older version of windows is on the drive you want to install XP on just put the Xp cd into the computer and tell it to install. Xp will remove the old operating system in favor of itself. Once you have you have the new version of Xp booting from your C: drive you can format the other hard drive and dispose of the old XP installation.

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Bruce McGee
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular.
Registered: Aug 1999

posted 08-21-2006 09:57 PM

Thanks for the fast reply. In other words, if I attempt to load my XP on the C drive, it will kill the 2000? Thats OK by me.

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Charles Greenlee
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Savannah, Ga, U.S.
Registered: Jun 2006

posted 08-21-2006 10:04 PM

Or "upgrade" it, meaning overwriting it, but try to keep the installed programs and saved info. You usually have that option too. But best bet, if you have nothing you mind losing, just let it reformat C: and install fresh. The "upgrade" process is never perfect, and often you'll find you have stability issues and random problems much quicker down the road.

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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster

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From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-21-2006 10:20 PM

I agree with Charlie! A clean install of XP-Pro is hard to beat and will be very stable in the long run. Once you load XP on your HD then you can delete all the crap it contains that you won't need before loading anything else.

P.S. Bruce... how've ya been feeling these days... glad to see ya back here more regularly!

Mark

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Charles Greenlee
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Savannah, Ga, U.S.
Registered: Jun 2006

posted 08-22-2006 10:00 AM

eah, my personal preference, is to backup anything I want to save to another drive or CD or such, then completely kill C:, and create a new/fresh partition during windows setup. This assures against a corrupt partition, which is rare, but I've had once before. Actually, in windows setup you can delete the partition right there, then tell it to create a new one. Whether you decide on FAT32, which is backwards compatible, or NTFS, which is more efficient, is up to you. Just my personal thoughts.

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Bruce McGee
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From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular.
Registered: Aug 1999

posted 08-22-2006 07:15 PM

Thanks guys, all is well here. I'll be going back to work soon, too!!!

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