The plan is now to install three versions of Windows on Area51: 2000, XP, and Vista.
Sunday, July 15, 2007 10:52 AM
I formatted the hard drive with 3 boot partitions. I’ll devote the remainder to data. See my earlier post, New Partitioning Strategy, for details. Windows 2000 Slipstream is my first installation. All goes well, after I clean the CD. Here are my volumes:
C: 20 GB FAT 32 - 2000 SP3 (DRV1_VOL1)
D: 40 GB NTFS - XP (DRV1_VOL2)
E: 60 GB NTFS - Vista (DRV1_VOL3)
F: 120 GB NTFS - Data (DRV1_VOL4)
Total = 250 GB (of course, it doesn’t add up to 250).
Sunday, July 15, 2007 9:13 PM
Installing XP on D: (DRV1_VOL2).
For both this install & 2000, I need the drivers for the:
NIC
ATI Video Card x800
Sound Card
I complete this installation without a hitch, although the computer is off the network and not updated. On to Vista.
Vista fares much better with the drivers, especially the network driver.
Sunday, July 15, 2007 11:15 PM
Vista is loading my desktop for the first time. Let’s capture stats...
Wow, second time’s the charm for Vista. It recognized the network, and got the updates. That’s what took the first boot so long, I suspect: while Vista declared it was checking my performance, right after the installation completed, it was also downloading updates. Well done. Everything seems to be working, in the computer, but the monitor was not recognized.
On the significantly nasty side, the big data drive, F:, seems to have been formatted or fixed by Vista. Well, certainly not fixed in the normal sense, because all of my files (not many, really) were vaporized.
Reboot, tested a quick boot back into 2000. Still there, and looking absurdly ... flat. Back into Vista. Check it! For real -- Vista runs a consistency check on F:, and it all looks good. I really must check all the volumes, in the different OSes ... but right now, let me check it out in Vista.
Sunday, July 15, 2007 11:33 PM
More strangeness: after installing the correct drivers (or ones that worked, at least) and connecting automatically and downloading updates, now Vista can’t connect to the network. WTF?? The last time, I did a manual intervention, but this time I am going to poke around a little bit more.
Sunday, July 15, 2007 11:40 PM
I tried to discover the network with the Windows Firewall disabled, but that didn’t work. I’ll do my disk checks and reboot.
Also, note that the current driver for the ATI is working quite well.
I’d like to check out that rollback feature. Where is it? It’s called System Restore. Not yet ...
Sunday, July 15, 2007 11:52 PM
What’s this? Network Access? That’s crazy. How did I do that? Back on line. Is it because I enabled Network Discovery for a Private network? I can’t be sure, because Vista “couldn’t find solution” for my lack of network connectivity. And yet, it did.
Monday, July 16, 2007 12:42 AM
Anyway, I finished scanning the two non-boot NTFS partitions, and rebooted. Now, check the boot volume and the FAT32 volume. It looks like it started the scan on the boot volume, E:.
Monday, July 16, 2007 12:50 AM
Time to call it a night. Time to install 3 versions of Windows: 14 hours (not complete, but not continuous, either. Most of my work was really
Sunday, July 15, 2007 10:52 AM
I formatted the hard drive with 3 boot partitions. I’ll devote the remainder to data. See my earlier post, New Partitioning Strategy, for details. Windows 2000 Slipstream is my first installation. All goes well, after I clean the CD. Here are my volumes:
C: 20 GB FAT 32 - 2000 SP3 (DRV1_VOL1)
D: 40 GB NTFS - XP (DRV1_VOL2)
E: 60 GB NTFS - Vista (DRV1_VOL3)
F: 120 GB NTFS - Data (DRV1_VOL4)
Total = 250 GB (of course, it doesn’t add up to 250).
Sunday, July 15, 2007 9:13 PM
Installing XP on D: (DRV1_VOL2).
For both this install & 2000, I need the drivers for the:
NIC
ATI Video Card x800
Sound Card
I complete this installation without a hitch, although the computer is off the network and not updated. On to Vista.
Vista fares much better with the drivers, especially the network driver.
Sunday, July 15, 2007 11:15 PM
Vista is loading my desktop for the first time. Let’s capture stats...
Wow, second time’s the charm for Vista. It recognized the network, and got the updates. That’s what took the first boot so long, I suspect: while Vista declared it was checking my performance, right after the installation completed, it was also downloading updates. Well done. Everything seems to be working, in the computer, but the monitor was not recognized.
On the significantly nasty side, the big data drive, F:, seems to have been formatted or fixed by Vista. Well, certainly not fixed in the normal sense, because all of my files (not many, really) were vaporized.
Reboot, tested a quick boot back into 2000. Still there, and looking absurdly ... flat. Back into Vista. Check it! For real -- Vista runs a consistency check on F:, and it all looks good. I really must check all the volumes, in the different OSes ... but right now, let me check it out in Vista.
Sunday, July 15, 2007 11:33 PM
More strangeness: after installing the correct drivers (or ones that worked, at least) and connecting automatically and downloading updates, now Vista can’t connect to the network. WTF?? The last time, I did a manual intervention, but this time I am going to poke around a little bit more.
Sunday, July 15, 2007 11:40 PM
I tried to discover the network with the Windows Firewall disabled, but that didn’t work. I’ll do my disk checks and reboot.
Also, note that the current driver for the ATI is working quite well.
I’d like to check out that rollback feature. Where is it? It’s called System Restore. Not yet ...
Sunday, July 15, 2007 11:52 PM
What’s this? Network Access? That’s crazy. How did I do that? Back on line. Is it because I enabled Network Discovery for a Private network? I can’t be sure, because Vista “couldn’t find solution” for my lack of network connectivity. And yet, it did.
Monday, July 16, 2007 12:42 AM
Anyway, I finished scanning the two non-boot NTFS partitions, and rebooted. Now, check the boot volume and the FAT32 volume. It looks like it started the scan on the boot volume, E:.
Monday, July 16, 2007 12:50 AM
Time to call it a night. Time to install 3 versions of Windows: 14 hours (not complete, but not continuous, either. Most of my work was really
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