nice tut darkstar, and whoever you bought your computer from should have given you a copy of winxp unless you got it on refurbishment, which is usually get a disk from your friend or somebody who has original copy and the do the steps and also you can choose which hd if you have two, like stated above C is usually the main one and i think d is the slave one. somebody should pin this IMHO
is it just me or my eyes that the text turns pink....:huh: btw i use windows media center edition XP is that different?
I already did this countless times, but you should add in there that NTFS (quick) is alot quicker than the standard format... actually, NTFS is for any size hard drive. at this refurb place where i volunteer, we put 6-10gb drives in the computer, and when we put Win 2000 on them, we use NTFS... it has better secority then FAT32...
you could easily have 2 or one external drive... fixes everything.. or have 2 sata drives mirror each other...
LOL ye its just you nah me jkin Well ive seen across the internet that HD lower than 32ishGB use FAT32 and over is NTFS Well dont matta The tutorial is not bad for my first go ^_^
multiple partitions is always nice though. I have my swap partition on my windows HDD and my pagefiling partition on my linux HDD and I have all my music on my linux HDD and windows HDD and my games are divded between the two being on the opposite HDD as the OS they are for... helps keep load time lower
Whats the difference between NTFS and NTFS (quick) besides the 2nd being faster? There's gotta be something..if there wasnt they would leave you the standard option
Thats what I was thinking..more stable or effecient or whatever..I'll just go with standard... How long does it take anyway?
nice guide, but there's one thing yo should've added... for the complete noobs --> PRINT THIS BEFORE YOU FORMAT!!!! :lol: You might be laughing now, but you wouldn't be the first one to do something like this...
it's the same, it just formats it faster. it does not lower quality. I believe you can not do that with a brand new drive. you had to have a partition on there previously to do thw quick version. the data has already been formatted, so it just writes over that stuff, instead of creating all new partition(s).