Ive always hated XP. I also should get some more experiance with it before its not the newest os everyone wants, because its been shipping for some time now and people need help with it.
So im trying to get a rig working with it.
Rig specs: 500mhz celly, 128 mb pc133, 250GB HDD (thats right, 250)
Okay. Ive updated the bios, the computer can use this drive.
XP, however, cant. i do not have sp1, so it can only see 127 GB.
The problem comes with using hte whole drive....
Ive installed sp1, and the rest of the drive becomes available....but i want it all in one chunk.
Partition magic says the drives were crated with different drive geometrty's, and they should be backed up and deleted immediately.
im tring a second, free drive manipulator in a few minuits.
I can now see a 128 GB partition, and a 104 GB partition.
The free demo seems to think it can do it, but it doesnt actually do it. GRAH.
My solution will be to install sp1 from the start. Only problem is, i cant do that without an sp1 disk, and im not buying another copy. is there a way to make a new xp cd with sp1 on it allready?
Also, XP has this annoying habit of sucking at life. sometimes, it absolutely refuses to see the wireless network. i just rebooted, and it found it almost immediately. whats up with that? i eded up downloading the entire sp1 on my laptop and burning it onto a cd to get it over there, and now it just...works. Whats up with that?
So im trying to get a rig working with it.
Rig specs: 500mhz celly, 128 mb pc133, 250GB HDD (thats right, 250)
Okay. Ive updated the bios, the computer can use this drive.
XP, however, cant. i do not have sp1, so it can only see 127 GB.
The problem comes with using hte whole drive....
Ive installed sp1, and the rest of the drive becomes available....but i want it all in one chunk.
Partition magic says the drives were crated with different drive geometrty's, and they should be backed up and deleted immediately.
im tring a second, free drive manipulator in a few minuits.
I can now see a 128 GB partition, and a 104 GB partition.
The free demo seems to think it can do it, but it doesnt actually do it. GRAH.
My solution will be to install sp1 from the start. Only problem is, i cant do that without an sp1 disk, and im not buying another copy. is there a way to make a new xp cd with sp1 on it allready?
Also, XP has this annoying habit of sucking at life. sometimes, it absolutely refuses to see the wireless network. i just rebooted, and it found it almost immediately. whats up with that? i eded up downloading the entire sp1 on my laptop and burning it onto a cd to get it over there, and now it just...works. Whats up with that?