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peppermint · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:01 am Post subject: copy of win XP

The guy who serviced my computer(read: blew out my damaged hard drive and reinstalled windows on it) over the summer refused to give me the windows disk, and I need one.

Where can I get a copy of Win XP in English fairly inexpensively? ( 300K is too much)

Before anyone suggest Linux- if I were going that route, I'd still want a dual boot system, so I could get the hang of Linux relatively stress free, and keep windows as a security blanket. ( not because it's a better system, just because it's my comfort zone)

steelhead · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:16 am Post subject:

ditto, im in the same boat.

I used to be able to copy my own, but with security windows has makin it pretty tough. I want regular updates and all the such.

Demonicat · Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Location: Suwon

Yongsan station, go under the overpass after 10 am. There will be a guy smoking cigarettes next to a bunch of paper taped to the wall. 15,000 W and you'll having a working copy in a matter of minutes.

Mpls_Korean · Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul, Korea

peppermint · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:46 am Post subject:

I downloaded one yesterday, and it was full of viruses- ( lucky I scanned it before using it) I'm definitely not going that route again.

Giant · Joined: 14 May 2003 Location: South Korea

Hmmm, I can help you out.

http://www.gentlegiant.no-ip.com/other/WXPSP2.rar

Its on my personal server, and reliable.

steelhead · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 5:46 am Post subject:

dumbasss question onthe way.....been a long time since I burned an .iso.

copy as image or something.....I used to be on the cusp of the pirating craze back in my college days.....

I have nero on my compl...but to be honest Ive never really used it, no use for buring things these days.

Now how do I go abouts getting a serial? Consider me a 13 year old.

Sorry for the hastle

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

Giant · Joined: 14 May 2003 Location: South Korea

Yes it has SP2 integrated, and it does not need activation. All you need to do is bypass the genuine advantage thing. And the cd-key is on the CD in the root in a txt file.

peppermint · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 3:03 pm Post subject:

I downloaded it, and extracted the rar- but now what? Can I just burn that to disk?

Oh, and while I'm at it, I want to install windows on what's now the slave drive. I can set it to boot from there in the BIOS, but I don't want to mess with jumper settings if I don't absolutely have to. Will that cause any trouble, in the long term?

Wrench · Joined: 07 Apr 2005

If you want legit go to ebay.com

You can get winxp pro for about 130 dollars.

Giant · Joined: 14 May 2003 Location: South Korea

Yes, just burn that to disk.

When you boot from the CD, you will have the option to choose what drive you want to install to.

Preferably you should have your OS on your smallest drive and set to primary master, so your bigger drive is free for data.

If you want optimal speed, you should connect your OS drive as primary master, and then your DVD/CD drive with your secondary drive on the secondary IDE channel. That way your hard drives will have optimal speed. (Unless you are using S-ATA drives in which case forget what I just said Smile

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peppermint · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:00 pm Post subject:

thanks!

if it's just a matter of speed, then I won't worry about it for the moment. I hate dealing with hardware stuff, and goes double when it's so dry and there's so much static in the air.

The old drive has been throwing errors once in a while, but I think it will be fine if it's only used for storage

steelhead · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 2:32 am Post subject:

ok im burning it as we speak, but it only let me burn the image file....

am I doing something wrong?

I selected burn as image... is that right?

Giant · Joined: 14 May 2003 Location: South Korea

No, thats right.