re: windows update Monday, October 8, 2001 at 7:25 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Spanky (30 messages posted) I know this sounds a pain, but XP is sometimes a pain. I have 2600 Copr final. To keep it simple. Reformat the drive. Install W98/ME or something. Load and setup all your drivers, hardware, etc, since XP will later take those settings when it installs. It seems simplier to do this than to take time making boot disks. Win ME and 89 almost virtually self install. Then install XP, and use "upgrade." Once that is installed, make sure all hardware is setup correctly, use norton ghost and mirror (backup) your main hard drive to a secondary hard drive that had NO BOOTABLE OS on it, and then DISCONNECT it from your system. MS has a paper out on XP re-assigning/re-lettering hardware, and that can and does cause boot drives and other hardware to be reassigned, corrupting the boot sector and confusing your system.. and loosing the ability to boot from that initial boot disk, though the progrmas etc are still there. Once you mirror your primary hd and have a backup copy of your harddrive, remove your secondary backup drive and leave it off unless you need to restore your main drive, via Ghost or the like/ Hope this helps, Spanky On Monday, October 8, 2001 at 4:44 am, FRITSS wrote: >Ricky, I tried that last week, still have same problem. Written in response to: re: windows update (FRITSS: Monday, October 8, 2001 at 4:44 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] windows update (FRITSS: Sun, Oct 7, 2001, 7:44 am) re: windows update (Ricky Tan: Mon, Oct 8, 2001, 3:02 am) re: windows update (FRITSS: Mon, Oct 8, 2001, 4:44 am) re: windows update (Spanky: Mon, Oct 8, 2001, 7:25 pm) re: windows update (VectorMann: Mon, Oct 8, 2001, 2:59 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum