MicroXP...

freekey · Post time 4-8-2009 12:44 AM

Post Last Edit by freekey at 6-8-2009 01:15

Sapa penah guna??

http://www.bukisa.com/articles/58383_microxp-a-trimmed-operating-system-for-free-download

Tetiba aritu aku terjumpa benda ni.. Mcm best plak.. Sebab kecik je..

Originally posted by someone at 00-0-0000 00:00 AM

A version of XP for personal computers that will run Office on an old or new machine. Runs on a 400MHz processor with 32Mb of RAM or better. Get XP running after a hard drive crash and without an original CD or key code.

Windows XP operating system has been around for nearly a decade and along with Windows 2000 is the most popular OS in use today.

Although hard drives are now very reliable, they are still the only computer component with moving parts (apart from cooling fans) and eventually wear out and crash.

Most computers were delivered with Windows XP pre-installed. Very few computers were supplied with an original Windows XP CD-ROM with key code attached but the owner has every right to a CD as they have paid for the operating system when buying the PC. It was a saving of a few dollars and cents for the supplier not to provide the CD.

Having XP pre-installed and backed up on a partition on the hard drive is not much use when the drive stops working.

Being offered Windows Vista, now that XP is no longer for sale, is not much consolation when it is found that the old computer is not powerful enough to run Vista and your scanner, modem, printer are not compatible with Vista and would also need to be replaced. A big cost to replace everything!

So the scenario is that you were working on your PC perfectly happily one day, with it doing everything that you want it to do, when it dies. On investigation, the hard drive has stopped working.

Replacing the drive is very simple - four screws and swap over the data ribbon and power cable. A new ATA hard drive is quite cheap now, even for one several times the capacity of your existing drive. It would be easier to stick with an ATA drive rather than the newer SATA (Serial ATA) hard drives as the data and power connections will be the same.

But now you need to re-install XP. A few stockists still have some copies but they will run out soon. Anyway, you have already paid for XP and it is a bit unfair to have to buy it again! Enter MicroXP!

Overview of the Work to be Done

Use another computer to download MicroXP un-pack it and burn it to a bootable CD.
Change the boot sequence on your PC's BIOS to boot from a CD drive first.
Load MicroXP and then any drivers that your motherboard and peripherals need.
Re-load software you were using on your old drive (anti-virus, Office, camera, Skype, etc)