mikeh420

Just when you thought you've seen everything! There are some people who shouldn't be allowed within 50 feet of a computer, and I think you have found almost all of them! Thanx

Since it is a OEM XP disk, it may have the drivers and other things that usually aren't on a standard XP cd, such as system specific drivers, diag and config progs, etc.

It took about 1 1/2 hours to install Vista Beta 1 on my P4/Celeron 2.6 w/512 MB PC2700 and a 30GB HDD. It installed itself on F: for some reason. Found all hardware except the sound card. I have an old version of AVG, "ver 6_FREE", it worked on a few alpha versions of LH, gonna try it on this beta.

A 160GB drive has 160,000,000,000 bytes of data, which is really only 149 GB. (149 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024 = 159,987,520,000) It's a very questionable practice by drive makers to mis-label the drives. I have a 60GB drive that really has 57GB, I also have a 30GB drive that really has 28GB. My first IDE HDD was a 84MB Conner that only had 80MB 1 Gigabyte of data is 1,073,741,800 bytes, not 1,000,000,000 bytes, as drive manufacturers seem to think.

Not advisable. Every SYSTEM32 folder is almost unique to the PC it's on, depending on hardware and software. The folder contains most of the DLL files on the system.

Try the NIC drivers for WinXP. I have a Kingston NIC that was detected in builds 4008 and 4015, but not in 4029. I had to load the drivers from XP.