John Doe said:I have a Windows XP (SP 3 streamlined) CD, made from my original CD.
Was there any update to SP 3 or anything else I should have at hand
when doing the reinstallation? Like an update pack, maybe?
Thanks.
Kernel said:After I slipstreamed SP3 into XP Pro, it now requires about 84 security
updates if I want to have all the patches...which I don't. An SP4 would be
nice b4 support for XP is shut down.
Tester said:M$ have no plans to issue any more service packs even if there are lots of
updates since SP3 was out. The only patch you should be on a lookout is
the one which allows you to use your system without activating it.
Microsoft is required to release this patch before April/May 2014 when XP
is terminated forever from M$ website. People should be allowed to
continue using XP systems if they want to.
anything else I should have at hand
when doing the reinstallation?
(PeteCresswell) said:Per John Doe:
A DOS-based disk imaging utility like TeraByte's "Image" and a
USB-wrapped hard drive.
You take a system image during various states of the install.
For example (depending on your inclinations):
- Raw system, right after the XP install disk has run it's course
- Tweaked system, after you've gotten the UI acting like
you want
- Updated system, after the 60+ Windows updates have been applied
- Semi-final system: After you have all your apps installed.
- Final: a week or two later after you've addressed all the
gotchas that you forgot about during the install - like
telling the various MS Office apps to use D: as their
default directory and moving "MyDocuments" to D:.
This takes a little time/obsessiveness, but once you've
done it the first time it becomes second nature.
Needless to say, before the install; you have partitioned your
drive to 30-50 gigs of C: (System) and the remainder to D:
(Data).
The utility of the above scheme is that when things go wrong or
you change your mind about something, it's only 30 minutes or so
of unattended operation to get back to the system you want to
modify.
After all that, I keep a legal-sized notepad with any
modifications I've made noted. If/when the sys gets flaky
(common occurrence around here with a teenager pounding on it
several hours a day) I don't even think twice: I just re-image
to that last known good image, apply the changes from the
notepad, and take another image for next time.
In the early days, I would preface that with taking a backup
image just in case I had inadvertently saved something to C:
Without the backup image, it takes less than an hour, most of it
unattended.
No data lost bc you've kept it all on D:.
I have
started using an SDD drive as primary,
(PeteCresswell) said:Per John Doe:
Somewhere I think I recall somebody saying that, besides a RAID
array, an SDD drive is the only way to get faster disc access
than SATA II.
True?
If not, what was your reason for moving to an SDD?
The 32 GB SDD drive I
use cost as much as a current 64 GB SDD drive.
The creep thinks he can Spam UseNet because it is unmoderated.
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