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To: mr.mark who wrote (12832)	10/27/2000 11:02:48 PM
From: doniam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

The latest chapter of my saga started yesterday morning when the machine couldn't run Mprexe yet again. Don't know what this is but know when it happens you have to install the OS again. This has happened enough times that it became upgrade time. Thought of a new CPU but didn't think it was the problem and the motherboard wouldn't support a very fast one, so was looking at both motherboard, CPU, installation expense and the good chance that the other stuff wouldn't work. I wandered into Best Buy and they had an elcheapo Micron (RS2100) for $500. It has a 700mhz Celeron, 20gig HD and 64meg memory. Figured I'd use 128 memory from the old box as well as the internal zip, and my old 7200 IBM HD as a drive D. I'm finding out that Micron cuts every corner it can to sell so cheaply. Cables won't reach, not enough power connectors etc. Think I'll be able to splice the wires to the power supply to be able to install the zip and will forget about using the old drive. Wonder if the 20 month old good drive would be better to use than the cheap 5400 that comes with the new box. This computer should me plenty enough for my needs for a very long time. Seems like I said that about AppleII, 286, 386, 486DX, Cyrix?? another, and Celry300a. Thanks for your advice. Without remembering a logon name and password, have been having SI withdrawal pains. My thinking about putting ME on the old drive before copying was that the programs wouldn't be confused with different .DLL etc. I've got a guy coming by tomorrow with a screwdriver and some computer knowledge. We'll see. Don't expect to OC this one but with my history, I'll bugger it up some way sooner or later.

To: mr.mark who wrote (12832)	10/29/2000 12:14:01 AM
From: doniam	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110652

Thanks for the article on drive partitioning. My next question is how do I find the swap file and how do I move it to drive E? My change over is progressing somewhat. Set up the old drive as a slave and tried to update the OS from Win98+ to ME. No luck. Was able to boot to the old drive (only in safe mode) Ended up copying the contents to a partition of the new drive, and at least some of them run. My guess is that the programs are looking at the old OS on the drive with them to find the funny stuff in the Windows directory? Any thoughts anyone?