lm8

August 22, 2011

My previous computer died so I built a new computer to move everything over to and attempted to install Windows XP on it in place of my old one. Was having trouble with the install on the new machine because of the missing SATA drivers. I tried using the F6 method with two different USB floppy drives and neither work. When I read about nlite, I decided to give it a try. Was able to create a disk with service pack 3 and the needed SATA drivers. It installed to my new machine successfully. Was very impressed with nlite. Unfortunately, the previous attempts at install left some files in the Windows directory on the SATA drive and the nlite install automatically placed everything in windows.0 to avoid it. I found the Windows KB 888023 information that says you can edit boot.ini and remove one of the entries. However, the entry I need to remove is the windows one not windows.0 as in their example. Am wondering if there's any way to get the files in windows.0 over to the windows directory and boot from there without having to reinstall everything on the drive. If there isn't, is it safe to just remove the \windows directory and any mention of it in the boot.ini and just use windows.0 from here on out? If there is a way to move everything from windows.0 to windows again without a complete reinstall, would appreciate any information on how to do it. Thanks.

August 19, 2011

Seriously VERY good work!
jaclaz
P.S.: Just in case, it was only a little joke, if you feel seriously that citing the above is a Copyright infringement I will remove it as soon as you notify me.

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I like to copyright, CC or use GNU or BSD license on all my work. It's happened more than once that people will copy whole pages from my web site to theirs and act as if it's their work. By the way, usually quoting a portion of a page, especially if you're attributing the source, is considered fair use although the definition of fair use varies.