[DoyleS]

I can here Donald and Goofy saying it now. "You should have left well enough alone."


There I was with a happy HTPC running windows ME and watching DVDs with Theatertek and my Radeon 7500 and Marquee 8500. I bought a MYHD card to upgrade from my set top HD receiver and all of the threads said to upgrade to XP. Need I say more.......

The upgrade seemed to go well. I then put in the MYHD card and the installation burped. Now it doesn't even see my DVD drive. I tried to reinstall the driver for the DVD drive but XP wants to do the MYHD card first which it can't because the drive doesn't work. The drive has a nice yellow exclamation mark on it and says the driver is corrupted. It looks like I need to pull all of the cards out and start over. I shut the whole thing down and went to bed. I think I need a bit of an attitude adjustment before I go back to never never land.


Maybe we'll just go to a movie tonight and eat someone else's popcorn.



..Doyle

 

[timle]

I would never upgrade a microsoft product. I would always start with a fresh install. Might be a good time to do 2 partitions. C drive for applications and Windows itself. D drive for just data (mp3s, movies, etc). When you want to reinstall wipe the C drive install windows and all apps, your data drive remains untouched.


my2cents (retail value may vary)

 

[DoyleS]

The fortunate thing was there was no data so to speak on the machine. It was strictly applications and even they they were only HTPC apps. A little late for the clean install as I purchased the upgrade version BillyGates windoze. I don't know if it will let me go through the process again or not. I have an empty 2nd drive in the machine so I could install on that but not sure if all of the anti-pirate hooks in the upgrade software will allow that now. I probably shouldn't have been so quick to register and download all the updates. Suggestions on how to climb back out of this hole are more than welcome.


..Doyle

 

[jcdillin]

You can install an upgrade version of windows on a blank drive, as long as you have a windows 98 or me cd to give it when it asks for it during setup.

 

[K-Wood]

I ran into a similar problem, though not as severe, on a recent install of an OEM XP Pro (stand-alone) a new PC. I made the mistake of registering the software after getting the video card installed but before installing any of my other hardware (MyHD, Holo3D, soundcard, etc.). After rebooting (actually, I rebooted after every hardware install), I got a message saying that I had made "substantial changes" to my machine and would need to reactive. I dutifully called MS, got a person on the line almost instantly, and explained the situation. She gave me a reg. ID and the problem never arose again.


The moral is that you shouldn't be afraid to run afoul of the anti-pirate hooks, b/c a simple phone call will usually get you around them. YMMV, of course, given that you're installing the upgrade, but I don't think that what you're doing should be a violation of the EULA.


I hope I don't start a mini-flame war . .. .

 

[Warren_G]

Can anyone tell me, is there a good system backup utility that works with SATA Raid drives, I am running 2 80GB SATA dirves, and had hoped to ghost the system once it was built and stable, but ghost could not copy an image of the SATA drives in the Raid array. I have a 3rd hard drive installed, it is a 10 GB, and is only used to back up my config files, latest drivers, etc. I would like to use it as a backup drive, but ghost doesnt do what I need it to. Does anyone know if a newer version of ghost will work with this configuration? Drive Image maybe??......

 

[alaricljs]

Warren, if you can get DOS drivers for your SATA and RAID then you should be able to use ghost. However, it's unlikely that those items have DOS drivers.


Otherwise I suggest using a backup utility that runs in your OS of choice. If you have Win2k/XP then the backup software there is adequate, although not cross-version compatible.


For anyone that's following this thread and has a Linux machine, Arkeia Light can be had at: http://arkeia.com/arkeialight.html - runs on 1 Linux server and supports 2 type 2 clients (non-server versions of Windows, and any BSD/Linux)