[thelist] XP's going round in circles

[Jon Hall]

Just a tip that sometimes people overlook. If at all possible keep the
hard drive and the cd/dvd-rom drives on different IDE channels,
especially if you have a newer HD and an older cd-rom. If two devices
on the same channel are compatible with different ATA spec the slowest
of the two is chosen.
Sticking an ATA-33 CD alongside an ATA-100 HD is going to limit your
HD's transfer speed, especially when using both simultaneously.

--
jon
mailto:jonhall at ozline.net

Wednesday, August 21, 2002, 2:47:01 PM, you wrote:

e> It has been my experience that if you are having trouble installing from
e> the CD make the hard drive the master and make sure that the CD drive is
e> set to slave if it's and IDE configuration.

e> -----Original Message-----
e> From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
e> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Hershel Robinson
e> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 3:10 PM
e> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
e> Subject: RE: [thelist] XP's going round in circles

>> Any body any ideas ?

e> Boot up from the Windows CD and let Windows make the repair.  If not,
e> try a
e> reinstall and try to save your registry.  If for some strange reason the
e> CD
e> won't let you reinstall, try putting the Windows CD on a hard drive and
e> running the the setup program from there--it can be different.  Why I
e> don't
e> know.  If nothing works, copy your data (but be wary copying executables
e> in
e> case there is a virus) to another disk and then format and install
e> everything again.

e> It's fun wasting your time like this--I just did it myself this very
e> week
e> due to a virus.

e> Hershel

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