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I had written several short items, the I hit some wrong key and my BBS page went away! Now It is not to be found. It was/is very similar to this post.
If you see it anywhere--or know how this can happen please advise.
Here is what I asked;
First I have a year 2000 Micron Millenia PC running Win98 at 733HZ thru a 133 Hz Bus, using a later model IBM DDYS-T18350N [Hard drive] (18.34 GB). This is a SCSI drive.
The present plan is to add another similar drive, then use Norton "Gost" to replicate the present Drive. the new drive will be used for backup in the future.
Then to buy A $50 OEM copy of XP (with a $5 cable to be compliant) and put XP on the original drive.
My Questions are:
How to find the best scsi drive to use, Some say the above drive has been replaced.
Is the $50 OEM copy of XP (with a $5 cable to be compliant) OK?
Any other gotcha's in this plan?
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Why not just install XP on the new drive and copy your files from the old one, or dual boot? I don't like OEM XP cds, but that's another thread. How much memory do you have? Your system seems to meet XP requirements, but you may not see an increase in performance, because of the age and size of the processor.
Billy Bob, explain OEMs, because I'm too tired to type tonight.
If you see it anywhere--or know how this can happen please advise.
I´ve had that happen to me as well, frustrating, isn´t it!
The SHIFT-key and the CTRL-key are awfully close to eachother and hitting CTRL instead of SHIFT (to get a capital letter) can be what has happened.
If You hit CTRL+N, a new window with the same contents will be opened. The difference is that in the new window the message form is empty. If You open the previous window, the message is still there.
I`m sure there are other "malicious" key combinations too ...... ......
The solution is slower typing ...... ...... lower the hit rate.
Christer,
handing out advice that he doesn´t live by himself
If you can put at least 512 MB of RAM in your current 733MHz machine, I would upgrade immediately. I originally moved over on an 850MHz box and upgraded to 1 GB RAM in the process. My 850 was faster than a Win98 1.8GHz install. It is more stable and I run several games and have only the normal configuation challenges. Once fixed they (so far) have stayed fixed) ... . ....
My experience is Win XP loves RAM - the more the better. Under 512MB seems to have caused marginal performance improvements - although the stability is still there.
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...... lower the hit rate.
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