Introduction and questions from (maybe) new XP user.
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From: Robbie Hatley on 10 Nov 2009 18:14 An anonymous coward wrote: > Bite the bullet and buy a new computer with Windows 7. > That way you'll have the latest hardware and software. Firstly, I don't do "new computers"; I build my own. Secondly, I don't do pre-installed OSes; I install my own using install CDs. Avoids a whole plethora of problems. Thirdly, I couldn't afford a "new computer" even if I wanted to buy one, which I don't. In short, I'm sorry, but your "answer" does not come even remotely close to answering anything I actually asked, so i'll repeat: Greetings, group. This is my first post to this group. I've been using Windows 2000 since shortly after it came out (late 2000). It's met all my needs until recently. But lately, I've been running into problems as Microsoft, software manufacturers, ISPs, etc are all phasing-out support for Win2K. SO, I'm considering moving to Windows-XP. I have two questions: Firstly, what are the options for obtaining XP install CDs these days? I've heard MS has stopped producing them. So we have to get them from places that still have them in stock? Or are there other options? Secondly, does XP require manually setting an entry in the registry in order to use HD partitions over 137GB, as with Win2K? Or is XP smart enough to automatically use the correct LBA type (24bit or 48bit) based on HD size? (I'm looking to avoid any repeats of an incident which occurred about a year ago in which thousands of files on my computer were destroyed because registry entry "EnableBigLBA" got reset to 0 on a clean reinstall of Win2K.) -- Cheers, Robbie Hatley lonewolf at well dot com www dot well dot com slant tilde lonewolf slant |