Approximate Time for WinXP Reinstall?

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frank1492 said:
Can any one help here?
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Not enough information.

We don't know what you are installing onto - it will make a difference.
We don't know what method you are using to install (CD, modified unattened
CD/DVD, network, imaging, etc...)
We don't know your skill level and how much you know about installing.
We don't know what type of Internet connection you have for
post-installation patch download/installation.
What backups you have done/need to do beforehand...

Basic install, as much as you can get integrated into the installation media
(drivers, SP2 and post-sp2 patches/updates), post-installation updates and
driver installs (in case you missed any or for those updates not as easily
integrated into the installation media) - I'd say .75 to 2.5 hours.

In under 4 hours (sometimes significantly under) I can get a machine
installed clean with many extras (quicktime, adobe (reader, flash,
shockwave), real alternative, irfanview, office 2003, assorted other plugins
and full applications.)

After doing so - I could make an image and in under 15 minutes - I could
likely do a few dozen more machines with an imaging application...

What is it you are really trying to determine?
 
Thanks! You have given me everything I need to know.
What is tells me is I'd better not start this now as I will be
going to sleep in about an hour.
Frank
 
Probably a good idea to image the resulting clean XP installation when
you're done. That will save you a whole lotta time if you have to do this
reinstall again in the future.

My XP Home Edition installation defaults to 39 minutes at initial time
remaining. I've monitored the time remaining counter during such an
install, in some instances, the minutes remaining counter flyby in a second
or two in some cases. Actual time was about 21 minutes including the 2
reboots.
Dave

frank1492 said:
Thanks! You have given me everything I need to know.
What is tells me is I'd better not start this now as I will be
going to sleep in about an hour.
Frank
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Per Lil' Dave:
Probably a good idea to image the resulting clean XP installation when
you're done. That will save you a whole lotta time if you have to do this
reinstall again in the future.
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I go a couple steps further - taking several images.
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- First one with the clean install of XP.... period.

- Second one with email enabled and all my little idiosyncratic
settings made (like List Details in explorer windows, open new
tab in IE... and so-forth)

- Third one when I've got all my apps installed and running.
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After that, I start keeping track of any changes on a sheet of
paper.

Sometime around when the page gets full, I restore that third
image, apply all the changes on the page, and then take a fourth
image.

Then I keep on doing iterations of those last few steps.

I've never had occasion to fall back to image #1 or 2 - but it's
so easy to make them, I figure "Why Not?"....
 
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