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- Sep 20, 2001
I am getting a new sony laptop that comes with windows xp home edition prinstaled and i have a few questions to do with how i want to set up the system.
will i have to register this installation or will it be an oem version?
is it likely to have Fat32 or ntfs preinstalled?
is the new partition magic compatible with the ntfs filesystem in windows xp?
I ask you this as when i set up systems i partion the hardrive into two partions one for the system and cryticle utilities like Nortan anti virus and the other for programs and downloads other stuff like that. Thereason i do this is that evnen with an installation of win xp taking up 2GB of space i can use noton ghost to create a backup image that will fit onto a cd.
This therfore means that nomatter what hapens to my system i will never have to sit through the winsows setup and spend hours
installing drivers unless i upgrade my system.
I have been doing this for a while now and good old norton ghost has never let me down.
I also recomend doing this to anyone who hates wasting there life setting up windows because of system corution etc.
will i have to register this installation or will it be an oem version?
is it likely to have Fat32 or ntfs preinstalled?
is the new partition magic compatible with the ntfs filesystem in windows xp?
I ask you this as when i set up systems i partion the hardrive into two partions one for the system and cryticle utilities like Nortan anti virus and the other for programs and downloads other stuff like that. Thereason i do this is that evnen with an installation of win xp taking up 2GB of space i can use noton ghost to create a backup image that will fit onto a cd.
This therfore means that nomatter what hapens to my system i will never have to sit through the winsows setup and spend hours
installing drivers unless i upgrade my system.
I have been doing this for a while now and good old norton ghost has never let me down.
I also recomend doing this to anyone who hates wasting there life setting up windows because of system corution etc.