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Ed's about to "Bake" a computer.
This is my 9th! scratch computer build but my first XP machine. But I'm willing to bet that nearly nothing I learned about building 98x machines will do me much good here.
My "baking" ingredients: new case, power supply, XP upgrade, OEM Win98 disks, all my drivers and updates saved on CD_RW, saved all my bookmarks and settings on CD_RW, two HDD [40 & 20 GIG] (formatted), 512MB memory-etc. and a slew of legal (registered & updated) programs, most of which say (advisedly) they can run under XP.
Baking the cake:
1. When to install the above and in what sequence?
2. Do WHAT immediately after XP install?
2a Install PartitionMagic 8.0 then NortonSystemWorks2002?
2b Or?
3. Dual boot so I can run Win98/DOS programs and games?
I can easily enough go to M$ and update my Office 2000 and other MS stuff, but what about my favorite DOS programs?
4. What have I forgotten/left out?
This is my 9th! scratch computer build but my first XP machine. But I'm willing to bet that nearly nothing I learned about building 98x machines will do me much good here.
My "baking" ingredients: new case, power supply, XP upgrade, OEM Win98 disks, all my drivers and updates saved on CD_RW, saved all my bookmarks and settings on CD_RW, two HDD [40 & 20 GIG] (formatted), 512MB memory-etc. and a slew of legal (registered & updated) programs, most of which say (advisedly) they can run under XP.
Baking the cake:
1. When to install the above and in what sequence?
2. Do WHAT immediately after XP install?
2a Install PartitionMagic 8.0 then NortonSystemWorks2002?
2b Or?
3. Dual boot so I can run Win98/DOS programs and games?
I can easily enough go to M$ and update my Office 2000 and other MS stuff, but what about my favorite DOS programs?
4. What have I forgotten/left out?