Introduction and questions from (maybe) new XP user.
ditto
"Leonard Grey" wrote in message
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You're switching from one out-of-date operating system to another
out-of-date operating system.
To find Windows XP installation CDs: Look on the web.
For large disk support: Purchase an install CD with SP 2 or SP 3.
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Leonard Grey
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Robbie Hatley wrote:
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.)
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