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I have a good XP install (without SP2; SP2 made a similar-setup drive
unbootable) on a 15 GB HD.
I'm going to clean install XP on a new 120 GB HD, and then install SP2.
But XP's install program (I only have an XP pre-SP2 upgrade CD, and I
lost my original ME CD) is going to ask for qualifying media, which I
don't think I have.
I later intend to put the 15 GB on a shelf, as a backup, to keep as a
working booting XP HD that I can use in case of problems with my new
setup.
So how am I going to deal with this qualifying media issue? Should I
clone the XP installation of the 15 GB HD to the 120 GB HD (I have Ghost
2003) and then clean install on the 120 using the old cloned install as
qualifying media? Laborious, but it should work. Any suggestions?
I also have a question about how I should partition this new HD, but I
have another thread (subjectartitioning for XP & Linux, How Much for
What?) going on that.
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* Nehmo Sergheyev *
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I have a good XP install (without SP2; SP2 made a similar-setup drive
unbootable) on a 15 GB HD.
I'm going to clean install XP on a new 120 GB HD, and then install SP2.
But XP's install program (I only have an XP pre-SP2 upgrade CD, and I
lost my original ME CD) is going to ask for qualifying media, which I
don't think I have.
I later intend to put the 15 GB on a shelf, as a backup, to keep as a
working booting XP HD that I can use in case of problems with my new
setup.
So how am I going to deal with this qualifying media issue? Should I
clone the XP installation of the 15 GB HD to the 120 GB HD (I have Ghost
2003) and then clean install on the 120 using the old cloned install as
qualifying media? Laborious, but it should work. Any suggestions?
I also have a question about how I should partition this new HD, but I
have another thread (subjectartitioning for XP & Linux, How Much for
What?) going on that.
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* Nehmo Sergheyev *
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