Greetings From Windows XP

[the_gneech]

Well, the "Recovery Disk" that came with my HP Pavilion was garbage -- big surprise there -- so I went to Best Buy and got a copy of Windows XP. After a bit of fighting with it to convince it that yes, I did have a hard drive, it is now installed and seems to be running happily ... if a bit on the pokey side.

The true test will come when I fire up Photoshop ... later.

But for now, I exist! Yay. :)

-The Gneech

Comments

[spikedpunch.livejournal.com]

ERF? Why would you need a whole copy of XP? The recovery disk is just going to reset everything to factory originals, not really install any new OS.

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

The recovery disk was supposed to have an option to reformat and reinstall -- except when it tried to do FDisk, it hung every time. Just as well, I suspect Win98 is where half of my difficulties lay anyhow. -TG

[spikedpunch.livejournal.com]

Win98? Don't tell me you upgrade from Win98 to XP!

And I got a few copies of both too....

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

I'm with Spiked on this one. 98 is much less of a resource hog and much more, ah, adjustable than XP ever will be.

But Neko's crazy idea that a Mac is better than a PC is just silly. Number one, the file system on a Macintosh OS of any level wastes waaaay too much space...