Today [7]

[LADYPINKtomato1]

OK thanks for your reply.. I get it now.

 

[Dwarf]

Dwarf's Multi-Boot System - Update 1

The proof of the pudding is, as they say, in the eating. So here I am, posting from XP SP3.



It's currently the only OS I have installed, as it would only install to the first listed drive, so I had to delete the other OSes. I'm going to do a full reinstall, but in groups. Within each group, I'm only going to connect the drive(s) required for the installation, and then use the one-time-boot option in the BIOS to boot to them, if I don't want to boot to the default Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8 options.

So, I will eventually have the disks set up as follows:

Group 1 (default) (500GB disks)

Disk0 System Reserved Partition, W7 Ultimate (x86), W7 Ultimate (x64)
Disk1 Vista Ultimate (x86), Vista Ultimate (x64)
Disk 2 Windows 8 (x86), Windows 8 (x64)

Group 2 (80GB disk)

Disk 3 Windows XP Professional SP3 (x86)

Group 3 (80GB disk)

Disk 4 Ubuntu 10.04 (x86), Ubuntu 10.04 (x64)

I also mentioned about overcoming hurdles. I met the first one here - my XP USB key wouldn't recognise any of my internal HDDs, so I had to integrate the required storage driver using nLite (I've got backups of all Windows OSes in both ISO and extracted format). The second one, which I shall have to overcome, is to have sufficient power connectors for the HDDs, and to get another 500GB HDD so that I can use it for my Windows 8 installations. Fortunately, these are easy to overcome, but not at this time on a Sunday.

More updates later.

 

[Shadowjk]

What caused you to do a Full system Format?

Josh

 

[Dwarf]

Because the first drive listed, that I didn't want to install on, contained the system reserved partition which is not compatible with XP (didn't exist back in 2001 when XP first came out). I tried to install to the currently empty 80GB drive, but couldn't because of that restriction Therefore, I wiped my system and installed to the first HDD. I know that I could have disconnected the drives and then installed on the 80GB drive, but I was only really checking that the XP USB installation drive worked and, as you can see, it does. I intend to set my system up in groups as described above, so I was going to do a full reinstall anyway.

 

[StalkeR]

Today Macedonian Handball Team beat B & H.

 

[Joan Archer]

Who's B & H ?

 

[StalkeR]

Bosnia and Herzegovina.

 

[Joan Archer]

Oh right thanks, well done to you. Do you play or just a supporter ?

 

[pooch]

Who's B & H ?

Benson and Hedges :roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:

 

[StalkeR]

Oh right thanks, well done to you. Do you play or just a supporter ?

I'm not playing. I'm just fan to my country.

 

[Joan Archer]

Who's B & H ?

Benson and Hedges :roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:

I remember them, have smoked them in my time.

Oh right thanks, well done to you. Do you play or just a supporter ?

I'm not playing. I'm just fan to my country.

That's OK, well done to the team then.

 

[DocBrown]

Back from my Time Traveling Trip​

of several days.​

Picked up a few treasures at
Fry's Electronics & some thrift stores​

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[Shadowjk]

Wow!! I am going to have to have a ride with you sometime

 

[jfar]

Back from my Time Traveling Trip​

of several days.​

Picked up a few treasures at
Fry's Electronics & some thrift stores​

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You should have got it wraped, like this one.

 

[Dwarf]

Dwarf's Multi-Boot System - Update 2

Today I have wiped XP from my system (was only installed for testing reasons) and gone back to W7 64-bit as I needed to create the USB installation drives. I have now created those for XP/Vista/W7, and have included the most recent drivers for my hardware, which I downloaded from the manufacturer's websites. I have also created an applications USB stick containing things such as Office 2010, Wallpaper and Security software (amongst other things).

It will probably be the weekend before I can do any more as regards the installation, but in the meantime I shall continue to prepare my hardware and software and make sure that everything is ready for I-day.

 

[A Guy]

Back from my Time Traveling Trip​

of several days.​

Picked up a few treasures at
Fry's Electronics & some thrift stores​

Do you have receipts for that mister?!

A Guy

 

[noobvious]

Today my boss offered to sell me a 20" widescreen monitor for $45....it will be my first experience with a dual-monitor setup.....should be fun! Hopefully in the next few days I'll have it set up. So I'll have a 19" and a 20" widescreen.....gotta love new toys!

 

[Arc]

Nice new toy, and nice new avatar, Randy

Today it started raining .... at last

 

[A Guy]

Today my boss offered to sell me a 20" widescreen monitor for $45....it will be my first experience with a dual-monitor setup.....should be fun! Hopefully in the next few days I'll have it set up. So I'll have a 19" and a 20" widescreen.....gotta love new toys!

You must remember to talk to him about how his Mercedes is getting ratty looking

Nice new toy, and nice new avatar, Randy

Today it started raining .... at last View attachment 159620

The elephant rain dance

A Guy

 

[noobvious]

Well, I don't have it hooked up yet.....too late at night to make that kind of noise....but it is here....positioning on desk is still to be determined.

I have to clean the desk (as you can see), and the floor off to the right of the tower so I can get back there and decide how to hook it up. I have both DVI and VGA cords , but I don't remember what I have for ports on the back of the tower. I know my current monitor is hooked to a DVI port, and my old one was hooked to a VGA port. I'm not sure if I have two DVI ports back there or not though...if not, I'll have to choose which monitor to hook to DVI and which to VGA.