how avoid overwriting xp

Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.

You forgot to mention the $67.48 shipping fee due to the size of the package.
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.

Will the self destruct date be graduated according to the disk installed. If I start to install on July 1st and finish on Dec 1st. will the date for the later installed disks be extended so that I can at least use some of the program. Will they just cease to work or will it be a gradual fade out? Maybe the area of the glass coverage will increase.
Ray
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.

Glass?
"Ray" wrote in message

Will the self destruct date be graduated according to the disk installed. If I start to install on July 1st and finish on Dec 1st. will the date for the later installed disks be extended so that I can at least use some of the program. Will they just cease to work or will it be a gradual fade out? Maybe the area of the glass coverage will increase.
Ray
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.

Sorry, I meant Aero Glass. Will the windows start to fade away as if they were changing to glass is what I meant.
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

Glass?
"Ray" wrote in message Will the self destruct date be graduated according to the disk installed. If I start to install on July 1st and finish on Dec 1st. will the date for the later installed disks be extended so that I can at least use some of the program. Will they just cease to work or will it be a gradual fade out? Maybe the area of the glass coverage will increase.
Ray
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message You also forgot to mention that the diskettes are not labeled so they must be kept in the original order they were unpacked.

Glass?
"Ray" wrote in message Will the self destruct date be graduated according to the disk installed. If I start to install on July 1st and finish on Dec 1st. will the date for the later installed disks be extended so that I can at least use some of the program. Will they just cease to work or will it be a gradual fade out? Maybe the area of the glass coverage will increase.
Ray
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.

Micorost considered that and determined that order did not matter after all. Besides binary numerals would have proven too difficult.
Which reminds me; did you know that there are 10 kinds of people in this world? Those who can read binary and those who can't.
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"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message You also forgot to mention that the diskettes are not labeled so they must be kept in the original order they were unpacked.
Glass?
"Ray" wrote in message Will the self destruct date be graduated according to the disk installed. If I start to install on July 1st and finish on Dec 1st. will the date for the later installed disks be extended so that I can at least use some of the program. Will they just cease to work or will it be a gradual fade out? Maybe the area of the glass coverage will increase.
Ray
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.

LOL I see you are keeping you sense of humor Colin. dotcom "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.

I'm assuming of course that the original files were compressed into a single ..rar file, then copied to unlabeled, sequential floppy disks using a file splitter program that is only compatible with Win3.1, yes?
-- Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.

It won't help, Colin. 43 new CPP'ers will stick a floppy in their CD tray and then blame MSFT when they call eMachines who won't help them anyway. Two real winners will follow the directions exactly, and when it says to "Insert Disk 2" they will; without removing Disk 1.
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly.

I'll be standing by for the link.

The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.

Oh yeah!
"Rick Rogers" wrote in message

I'm assuming of course that the original files were compressed into a single .rar file, then copied to unlabeled, sequential floppy disks using a file splitter program that is only compatible with Win3.1, yes?
-- Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.

LOL. I've pulled that one with my cd drive. Talk about a death rattle!
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote in message

It won't help, Colin. 43 new CPP'ers will stick a floppy in their CD tray and then blame MSFT when they call eMachines who won't help them anyway. Two real winners will follow the directions exactly, and when it says to "Insert Disk 2" they will; without removing Disk 1.
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.

Hey, I still have my DOS 6 and Windows 3.11 diskettes. Just in case I want to reinstall it.
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.

Email address for link is: link@link.com
"Todd" wrote in message

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly.
I'll be standing by for the link.
The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in news:#TgyFMfnGHA.4604@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:

Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.

With my luck, disk #2276 would be missing... :-) It was bad enough with Windows 95 when disk #26 was missing. Now someone answer my question about the zip files... :-)
-- --- A dyslexic man walks into a bra ---

Colin, I was refered to your post on intergrating my IDE XP drive back into the system after settin up VISTA on a 2 drive SATA system, but I haven't been able to fine it. Can you plese repost or direect me to it.
art
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

Micorost considered that and determined that order did not matter after all. Besides binary numerals would have proven too difficult.
Which reminds me; did you know that there are 10 kinds of people in this world? Those who can read binary and those who can't.
mrstyles_@hotmail.com> wrote in message
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message You also forgot to mention that the diskettes are not labeled so they must be kept in the original order they were unpacked.
Glass?
"Ray" wrote in message Will the self destruct date be graduated according to the disk installed. If I start to install on July 1st and finish on Dec 1st. will the date for the later installed disks be extended so that I can at least use some of the program. Will they just cease to work or will it be a gradual fade out? Maybe the area of the glass coverage will increase.
Ray
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.

Any chance you are related to an Arlen Hershberger in Denver?
"Menno Hershberger" wrote in message

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in news:#TgyFMfnGHA.4604@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:
Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.
With my luck, disk #2276 would be missing... :-) It was bad enough with Windows 95 when disk #26 was missing. Now someone answer my question about the zip files... :-)
-- --- A dyslexic man walks into a bra ---

Thanks, but I am not the one who has been posting on the subject. However, that poster will see this and reply. Hang in there.
"Art Garland Sr" wrote in message

Colin, I was refered to your post on intergrating my IDE XP drive back into the system after settin up VISTA on a 2 drive SATA system, but I haven't been able to fine it. Can you plese repost or direect me to it.
art
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
Micorost considered that and determined that order did not matter after all. Besides binary numerals would have proven too difficult.
Which reminds me; did you know that there are 10 kinds of people in this world? Those who can read binary and those who can't.
mrstyles_@hotmail.com> wrote in message
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message You also forgot to mention that the diskettes are not labeled so they must be kept in the original order they were unpacked.
Glass?
"Ray" wrote in message Will the self destruct date be graduated according to the disk installed. If I start to install on July 1st and finish on Dec 1st. will the date for the later installed disks be extended so that I can at least use some of the program. Will they just cease to work or will it be a gradual fade out? Maybe the area of the glass coverage will increase.
Ray
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.

This would be good news if it wasn't coming on 8 inch floppies.
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.

I know were to get some 8 inch floppies at work. I work in a Tape Library for Boeing with 3590 (VTS) tapes, 3480 tapes and even really old 3420 reel to reel tapes (1950's technology). One of the pieces of equipment used to maintain the 3480 floor drive units runs 8 inch floppy disks.
William "Tom Scales" wrote in message This would be good news if it wasn't coming on 8 inch floppies.
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.

Grab a bunch and sell it on ebay. "William R. Mosher" wrote in message I know were to get some 8 inch floppies at work. I work in a Tape Library for Boeing with 3590 (VTS) tapes, 3480 tapes and even really old 3420 reel to reel tapes (1950's technology). One of the pieces of equipment used to maintain the 3480 floor drive units runs 8 inch floppy disks.
William "Tom Scales" wrote in message This would be good news if it wasn't coming on 8 inch floppies.
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.

I doubt it but it's not impossible. My roots are Amish and trace back to Pennsylvania. I mutinied, if there is such a word.
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in news: #r92aegnGHA.2432@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl:

Any chance you are related to an Arlen Hershberger in Denver?
"Menno Hershberger" wrote in message "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in news:#TgyFMfnGHA.4604@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:
Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.
With my luck, disk #2276 would be missing... :-) It was bad enough with Windows 95 when disk #26 was missing. Now someone answer my question about the zip files... :-)
-- --- A dyslexic man walks into a bra ---

-- --- A dyslexic man walks into a bra ---

Leave the boot order the same as when you installed Vista.
Download the utility recommended by Colin several times, he says: You can download this tool from http://www.vistabootpro.org/intro.php. It is free
Then you add a legacy system using the tool.
Copy the boot.ini and ntdetect.com and ntldr to the drive with the Vista boot folder from your former system drive.
Modify the boot.ini to reflect the current position in boot order of your XP system. (you can play with it (if you can) or use the XP Recovery Console, bootcfg to /add (your legacy systems) or /rebuild the boot.ini to get it correct.
This will give you a first boot with a choice between vista and the legacy you added, and if you chose the legacy, you will get the boot.ini menu or go straight to the xp system if you only have one system (I have several) (either add or rebuild will result in extra entries to the boot menu, so make sure you use names you will recognise when you see them I personally add the drive and partition number to the description 0-1, 1-1 etc.)
Set the timeouts to your preferences.
Clean up the boot.ini from system properties in XP
"Art Garland Sr" wrote in message

Colin, I was refered to your post on intergrating my IDE XP drive back into the system after settin up VISTA on a 2 drive SATA system, but I haven't been able to fine it. Can you plese repost or direect me to it.
art
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
Micorost considered that and determined that order did not matter after all. Besides binary numerals would have proven too difficult.
Which reminds me; did you know that there are 10 kinds of people in this world? Those who can read binary and those who can't.
mrstyles_@hotmail.com> wrote in message
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message You also forgot to mention that the diskettes are not labeled so they must be kept in the original order they were unpacked.
Glass?
"Ray" wrote in message Will the self destruct date be graduated according to the disk installed. If I start to install on July 1st and finish on Dec 1st. will the date for the later installed disks be extended so that I can at least use some of the program. Will they just cease to work or will it be a gradual fade out? Maybe the area of the glass coverage will increase.
Ray
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.

I figured that because you are named after Menno Simons. Arlen is the choir director at my wife's church (First Mennonite Church of Denver). She sings in his choir. I am somewhat apostate myself. Sorry, I couldn't resist asking.
"Menno Hershberger" wrote in message

I doubt it but it's not impossible. My roots are Amish and trace back to Pennsylvania. I mutinied, if there is such a word.
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in news: #r92aegnGHA.2432@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl:
Any chance you are related to an Arlen Hershberger in Denver?
"Menno Hershberger" wrote in message "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in news:#TgyFMfnGHA.4604@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:
Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.
With my luck, disk #2276 would be missing... :-) It was bad enough with Windows 95 when disk #26 was missing. Now someone answer my question about the zip files... :-)
-- --- A dyslexic man walks into a bra ---


-- --- A dyslexic man walks into a bra ---

I see someone else has done the math. I come up with approximately 2284 floppies.
And I thought O/S 2 was bad!
-- Regards,
Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
Quote from George Ankner: If you knew as much as you think you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Menno Hershberger" wrote in message

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in news:#TgyFMfnGHA.4604@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:
Microsoft advises you that to assist you in avoiding overwriting the installation of XP on your present primary home computer or production computer, Microsoft is now providing Vista Beta 2 on 1.44 MB floppy diskettes.
Each diskette is contained in an individual plastic sleeve. To prevent overwriting XP it is vital that you do not remove the diskettes from their sleeves before inserting them into your drive.
A product key will not be neccessary with the diskette release of Vista Beta 2. Microsoft has determined that user retention of Vista Beta 2 product keys has proven too difficult for CPP participants to master. Microsoft will continue to monitor this situation in future builds.
A link to order the diskettes will be posted shortly. The diskette kit will be shipped by ground. Please allow an unusual number of days for delivery.
With my luck, disk #2276 would be missing... :-) It was bad enough with Windows 95 when disk #26 was missing. Now someone answer my question about the zip files... :-)
-- --- A dyslexic man walks into a bra ---

With my luck, disk #2276 would be missing... :-) It was bad enough with Windows 95 when disk #26 was missing.

At least if it's missing you can avoid beginning the installation. It's a lot worse if you do have all your disks, but #26 gives you a read error...