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n0nsensical · 02-07-2005, 01:15 AM

In what I'd say is the majority of modern systems, you just stick the Windows CD in the drive, start the computer, hit enter a few times for all default options, and Windows installs itself fine. I've never used a DOS boot disk in my life to install Windows and I've installed Windows countless times on many different systems. Floppy drive is equally unnecessary. I don't see how pre-partitioning a drive instead of just letting the Windows installer do it could have any relevance whatsoever to the drive's performance or any other metric. A drive's partitions are really just a table that says, "This part of the drive has this type of filesystem. This other part of the drive has this other filesystem." Who writes the table and when makes no difference. As long as you're not writing a new table when there's already an established file system, but on a new system there wouldn't be one. The only thing you might have to do in the BIOS is change the CD drive to be the first boot device.

I would advise against using any 6-7 year old Compaq components in a new computer, especially a hard drive.

02-07-2005, 01:15 AM	#7 (permalink)
n0nsensical Junkie Location: San Francisco	In what I'd say is the majority of modern systems, you just stick the Windows CD in the drive, start the computer, hit enter a few times for all default options, and Windows installs itself fine. I've never used a DOS boot disk in my life to install Windows and I've installed Windows countless times on many different systems. Floppy drive is equally unnecessary. I don't see how pre-partitioning a drive instead of just letting the Windows installer do it could have any relevance whatsoever to the drive's performance or any other metric. A drive's partitions are really just a table that says, "This part of the drive has this type of filesystem. This other part of the drive has this other filesystem." Who writes the table and when makes no difference. As long as you're not writing a new table when there's already an established file system, but on a new system there wouldn't be one. The only thing you might have to do in the BIOS is change the CD drive to be the first boot device. I would advise against using any 6-7 year old Compaq components in a new computer, especially a hard drive. Last edited by n0nsensical; 02-07-2005 at 01:17 AM..