WinXP Pro installed in 31 minutes

[electronfrost]

I'm not sure why every where I've read it takes over an hour...and on tech tv today someone said it took them over 2 hours to install

just curious how long it takes you guys/gals to do a clean XP Pro install...

[muchmark]

On a P3 866/256 RAM/20 and 10GB HD, CDR ,DVD and cable modem Exactly 58 minutes.

M$ started their add campaigned that story could be planted by their spin doctor they have done this before.

[electronfrost]

oh yeah,

epox 8k7a (amd 760 chipset)
1.2GHz tbird axia
256MB Cas2 ddr
20GB seagate 'cuda 7200 ata100 (dont have ata1000 cable...so its ata33 right now)
and a 32x cdrom (sandra tells me it's more like a 24x)
Lucent winmodem (cable tomorrow)
ati xpert98 (rage xl chipset)


exactly 31 minutes

and strangely enough...it's all worked fine since the install...
very happy so far

[saladbarkid]

On a 1.3 athlon 512 ram geforce3 60 GB HD it took me approximately 30 minutes.:D

And has been working fine since then.

[Explorer]

Installed XP Home Edition this afternoon in 45 minutes.

PIII-700
A-Bit BX6 Rev 2 Motherboard
128 MB RAM

Installed it to a second hard drive (dual boot). That drive is a 3 year old 3GB Fujitsu.

XP runs very fast, seems quicker than 98SE. Read/writes to the hard drive seem a touch slower but think it's mostly due to the age of the drive.

Can't get sound to work though. Card is a Shuttle Spacewalker HOT-247 that works fine in Win98. Uses an Opti 82C933 chipset that apparently cannot be supported in Win2000 or XP as Microsoft changed audio standards. Oh well, can't have everything.

[ooops]

When I installed RC1 and RC2 it took about an hour per install , but when I installed the OEM version on my RAID 0 array it took 25 minutes ........ a benefit of "striping" :eek:

[ketchup]

1 hour, kt7 raid

[vibe666]

31 minutes

1.1Ghz Athlon
512MB PC133
40GB ATA100 Maxtor HD

Sweet.

[vibe666]

31 minutes - XP Corp.

1.1Ghz Athlon
512MB PC133
40GB ATA100 Maxtor HD

Sweet.