-=PCTechTalk=- Computers
- From: "Don" <dswabc@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <PCtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 05:19:51 -0800
I am now the proud (???) owner of:
HP Pavilion a6650f as previously described
Dellfromhell Dimension 8300 as previously described
Dellfromhell Dimension 2350 (?) My Mom's old computer
Compaq Presario v5315wm laptop
The HP has a 500GB hard drive and I plan on taking a 160GB drive out of the
Dimension 8300 and putting the Vista premium OS on it and then taking the 500GB
drive and partitioning it to dual boot XP Pro and 2 or 3 virtual drives.
That will leave a 250 GB hard drive in the 8300 which I might also move to the
HP or else leave it to test out Windows7. If I move it, I have two or three
PATA drives sitting around I can put in the 8300 and use it as a test bed.
Mom's old computer has XP home on it and will become a printer and file server.
I hope it is still possible to tell setup to boot without a keyboard or
monitor attached.
The laptop, since it is better equipped than Larry's will be swapped over to
him and configured for his email, internet and banking/bill paying. I will
take his laptop and use it strictly for email and internet while on the road or
vacation.
I have two 16GB thumb drives. One will be setup primarily for tools and
utilities (all portable of course) and the other will have Firefox and
Thunderbird as its primary use. Several 4GB and smaller thumb drives I have
will be set up with certain specific purposes as they may arise. I'll probably
fix one or two for Larry's laptop also.
I have taken the XP Home disc that came with my Dellfromhell and slipstreamed
it using nLite. So far it looks good in a VM hosted by XP Home. By the way,
VPC 2007 warned me that it does not support XP Home, but might work anyway. It
did. So if that warning has scared anyone away, go back and try it again. It
should work.
My HP came with a recovery partition which I used to create a set of recovery
DVDs. It spans 3 disks. If it is possible to make a slipstreamed install disk
from that can anyone direct me to a website that explains how?
When I get to a wi-fi hot spot later today I will Google for this, but if
anyone with XP Pro x64 experience has found a good source of drivers for it I
would appreciate a link.
I know there are literally dozens of drivers installed on a computer besides
the "usual" ones we think about everyday. How many of them will actually be
x32 or x64 specific? How likely is it that some drivers on my Vista x64 system
will be compatible with XP x64?
Don
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