XP nightmare

[Cartel]

Hi all,

I got this new board and stuff and thought it was time for XP.........

WRONG

I did ntfs format and it figured D:\ was C:\ because all my other "crap" is in fat32 on 2 more drives.

If that wasn't enough, it started restarting for no reason, restart, restart, restart, Stop, fdisk, format, back-up of 98se, copy, bye bye XP.

Then I tried 2000pro, seems more like 98se, but the drivers are terrible !

I tried original drivers for my soundcard and they kept saying WDM.

Format, back-up, copy 98se.

Thank god for data lifeguard tools 11 from Western Digital

Now I want a good operating system, what do I do ?

[maxamoto]

Hi all,

        I got this new board and stuff and thought it was time for XP.........

WRONG

I did ntfs format and it figured D:\ was C:\ because all my other "crap" is in fat32 on 2 more drives.

If that wasn't enough, it started restarting for no reason, restart, restart, restart, Stop, fdisk, format, back-up of 98se, copy, bye bye XP.

Then I tried 2000pro, seems more like 98se, but the drivers are terrible !

I tried original drivers for my soundcard and they kept saying WDM.

Format, back-up, copy 98se.

Thank god for data lifeguard tools 11 from Western Digital

Now I want a good operating system, what do I do ?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Learn a bit more about computers before you blame your lack of knowledge on an OS.

[atomizer]

i went through some of the same frustration you did, but not because of XP; no matter what MS OS i've used, if i have more than disk, it may decide to install on the the wrong one. the problem was compounded when i built my last box which has a 2 disk RAID 0 array (which is where i install the OS and programs). there may be a more elegant solution, but what works fine for me is just to unplug the power supply to all disks except the one i want to install on. very simple.

[net_user]

atomizer is right...you need to unplug any physical disks you have.

also...are you doing a upgrade or clean install?

if you do only have one disk...and it is a clean install...just fdisk the disk but do not create any partitions...let xp do all of it for you during the install...

don't get frustrated about your mistakes...it's trial and error

[Cartel]

Well thats not all, theres the security issues and file sharing stuff to disable,I think I might stick with 98se its working pretty good.

[dirtwarrior]

If it aint broke dont fix it

[Pantharen]

Hi all,

I got this new board and stuff and thought it was time for XP.........

WRONG

I did ntfs format and it figured D:\ was C:\ because all my other "crap" is in fat32 on 2 more drives.

If that wasn't enough, it started restarting for no reason, restart, restart, restart, Stop, fdisk, format, back-up of 98se, copy, bye bye XP.

Which service packs did you have installed? XP is simple enough, as long as you have at least SP1a, SP2 causes too many problems still, and M$ is too slow in fixing the problems.

If you truely believe 98se is better than XP more power to you. But dont blame the OS, on your lack of intelligence.

[Cartel]

Hi all, thanks for your posts,

I had WinXP sp2........ and i was fine in ntfs......then half-way doing a anti-virus update it restarted with no warning.

Then i kept restarting, over and over. So before i get some bad sectors on my drive i formated.

I tried fat32, worked half a day then the same crap.

So I try 2000pro.

fat32 workin fine but then my sound was crackin on some games so i gave it the oringinal yamaha driver, it said wdm and the sound wouldnt work and the game port was wack so, format.

I'm on 98se and did the pack from u guys and its workin ok.

I had some of this already cause i used winzip on the installer and custom picked some goodies.

But I did the full instal except 2000 scheme.

I still have 2000pro but I'm not sure if it's better or not.

Maybe its something in the bios ?

[raskren]

Rule of thumb: Think before you format!

You need to read up on basic PC troubleshooting. Formatting is not a solution.

[Pantharen]

Hi all, thanks for your posts,

I had WinXP sp2........    and i was fine in ntfs......then half-way doing a anti-virus update it restarted with no warning.

Then i kept restarting, over and over. So before i get some bad sectors on my drive i formated.

FDISK / Format are a total waste of time. use a little utility released by Norton Ghost called GDISK it'll zero your drive (providing there isn't anything physically wrong) and it'll do it in less than 1/100th the time that it takes for fdisk.

Drop me a PM and I'll email it to you, it's very small, slightly larger than fdisk.exe but does a million things better than fdisk.