Windows XP Installation Guide

[Erickffd]

Thanks for this great guide E.B.E. It is still most useful !

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Other alternatives include (but are not limited to) the open-source PartImage software, and the commercial Symantec Norton Ghost. An earlier version of this guide was written for PartImage, but I have found out since that the Windows restored by PartImage may not boot properly...

BTW... looks like the PartImage issue has been solve over the SystemRescueCd 1.1.2 release...

From SystemRescueCd official website:

* important bug in version 1.1.1: An important bug in the ISO image makes sysresccd-1.1.1 unbootable on some hardware. This problem is fixed in 1.1.2.

Current version is SystemRescueCd 1.1.3 (242 MB) from 12/08/2008.

[Cin']

This is a great guide for those that still use XP/ or just got it on a new netbook/notebook. This will be very helpful for me.

Thanks!


Cin

[Colton]

Thanks E.B.E! That guide really helped me show my Mom how to install XP on her new notebook!

[Prestonn99]

I have an XPS 1530, and I have installed XP, and now I want to go back to Vista.

I saved the partition that came with the HD for recovery, but I can not boot to the recovery environment. Does anyone have any ideas?

[bill17]

Thanks for the great guide. Very helpful

[Erickffd]

A couple more tips for this thread...

You can also use XPlite by LitePC to customize and tweak Windows XP your way. It is a very simple and secure little software to really (not just hide the default access shortcut) uninstall utilities and unnecessary stuff from your Windows XP (like Windows Movie Maker, the screen savers that comes with XP, WMP, NetMeeting or even Internet Explorer among alot more options).

It worket just great for me


Also, Driver Genius Pro from Driver-Soft has been very useful to update my installed drivers to the latest available version.

Hope this helps

[nyzrich67]

Its great, helped me alot