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Presario 1700 (17XL365) upgrade ignorance...
I have a Presario 1700 (17XL365) that came with ME. 2 partitions, C and D,
(D must be the restore) ME stinks and I want to put XP Pro (or W2K) on this machine. Right now the machine barely runs and I don't want to go spend $2000 on a new one if I don't have to. I have saved all my drivers using the MyDrivers utility I found on the web. I really don't know how to go about this, I would like to wipe the hard drive, but still have a couple partitions on it. Anybody done things like this and could give me any advice, walkthrus, etc ? I realize it probably isn't that tough, but I've never done this before and I have a great deal of trepidation that I will do something that I can't get out of. I really don't want to spend 3 days reading books/articles/etc. telling me how to do this in theory, and it would take a week to track done all this information before I felt comfortable with it. I see the drives are fat32, if that makes any difference. Thanks for any help and your indulgance. Mike |
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Whatever you do, use XP (Pro or Home). Installing as OS older than your
hardware can get troublesome. XP has a vastly larger native driver database. If you ever want to reinstall the original software image, leave the D: partition alone. HH "Mike" wrote in message ... I have a Presario 1700 (17XL365) that came with ME. 2 partitions, C and D, (D must be the restore) ME stinks and I want to put XP Pro (or W2K) on this machine. Right now the machine barely runs and I don't want to go spend $2000 on a new one if I don't have to. I have saved all my drivers using the MyDrivers utility I found on the web. I really don't know how to go about this, I would like to wipe the hard drive, but still have a couple partitions on it. Anybody done things like this and could give me any advice, walkthrus, etc ? I realize it probably isn't that tough, but I've never done this before and I have a great deal of trepidation that I will do something that I can't get out of. I really don't want to spend 3 days reading books/articles/etc. telling me how to do this in theory, and it would take a week to track done all this information before I felt comfortable with it. I see the drives are fat32, if that makes any difference. Thanks for any help and your indulgance. Mike |
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