Thread: FFS Microsoft...get it right.

There you go man, keep as cool as you can, face piles of trials with smiles, for it riles them to believe you percieve the web that they weave.

Moody Blues.

Be careful with the Windows Genuine Advantage.
There have been many reports of WGA playing havoc with peoples activation, on Vista and also now XP. There seems to be a code conflict, and some times Microsoft's server will not identify your activation correctly, and you will get a report that your copy "may be pirated" and MS will do a backdoor partitial deactivation on you. XP must be activated to work, but deselect the WGA update when you get updates from MS, at least till ZDNet.com, and other security speciallists, give it the green light. ZDNet is a free to register site dedicated to computer and internet security, I get 4 or 5 emails from them per day, it is to be concerned over. Check them out, very informative.

Shorty.

now maybe i have missed something but i would have thought a much easier way to reinstall windows xp [ in this case] would be to boot of xp cd and click on r for recovery console.
use the format command and format C: , and then reboot off xp cd and it will ask you , where do u want to install windows to. just agree with c drive . install as normal.

if u are really struggling [ ie cannot clean drive b4 install] u could always use a manufacturer drive diagnostic tool and do a Low level format on your drive first .

if u want to make partitions u can also make all your partitions this way as well, and u can format them all before installing windows. this way you do not have to go back into windows and change drive letters of cd drives etc around after xp installation.
[ie to keep the dvd/cd drives at the end of the windows explorer tree. eg c drive = windows, d drive = partition 1, cd drive = e drive
i like to have dvd/cd drives at the end . not partitions after cd/dvd drives.