My Windows XP CD shattered in the drive!

It made a very loud bang, like a fire cracker.

Hero999 said:

It made a very loud bang, like a fire cracker.

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All I can imagine is picturised here:

Wow, that would have scared the heck out of me!

Win 7's not an option for my built-in win XP in my netbook with an intel atom processor

well I rebuild an old box I had here using a 1gig celery chip and got 1.5 gig of ram out of china, it runs a stripped down version of xp and the thing runs quicker than my 2 gig laptop. I use this puter for my cnc I'm making and sofar it hasn't skipped a beat.

bryan1 said:

well I rebuild an old box I had here using a 1gig celery chip

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I don't think a celery chip would be very good, I think a Celeron would be much better.

it's a new processor, I think. Celery has a natural frequency of 3 GHz, perhaps?

I think you meant, "EXPLODED"!!!

Those noobs on mythbusters did an episode on this and said it was impossible, around the same time mine EXPLODED!

My problems was I had ez-biosed a larger hard drive partition in win95 (2.1GiG max) and attempted a restore from floppy boot which i forgot & by-passed the ez-bios boot and so, the hard drive "wasn't" there to copy restore files to which caused the cd to write files the fastest I've seen....which caused the cd to spin too fast, lol. Wasn't funny at the time, though!

In conclusion, windoze wuz the problem...for allowing the false writing of files!

I haven't received the CD, the computer shop said they'd send me.

I might give them a call as well as using a pirate copy in the mean time.

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I'm surprised mythbusters said it's not possible. I suppose this proves, you can't believe everything you see on TV.

Hero999 said:

... the set up program asked me whether I wanted to repair the installation on drive C or drive D which confused the hell out of me because according to My Computer drive D is the CD-ROM drive! I didn't know which drive was which so I disconnected the drive I didn't want to install on, rebooted, then installed XP.

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Your reason for explosion, it told you in as few words that it would happen, lol. Windoze!
If you see that again, stop!
But I know nothing about raptor as previously suggested, would seriously consider that bios setting change...

aquamon said:

I think you meant, "EXPLODED"!!!

Those noobs on mythbusters did an episode on this and said it was impossible, around the same time mine EXPLODED!

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It sounds a lot louder than a over-volt-ed capacitor...

I got sick of waiting and downloaded a pirate copy.

I went for XP Home SP 3 so I didn't have to install all of the service packs manually.

Thanks for the Pirate Bay, not all people who use it are dishonest, some just want to download some software they're already licensed to use but they don't have the original copy. If I get a letter from my ISP, I'll send them one back explaining that I was not breaking the law and telling them to mind their own business.

Thanks for Microsoft making pirating their software as easy as stealing candy from a baby. The download came with a list of keys and bypassing the product activation was as easy as editing the registry, although being lazy I downloaded a patch so all I needed to do was click on it.

The Raptor is very fast, Windows boots much faster and many programs also load faster. Interesting it's made more of a difference to some programs than others: Firefox and OpenOffice seems to be much faster but it doesn't seem to have improved Inkscape much, which still takes awhile to load (around ten seconds).

I'm still using the old hard drive as the main boot drive at the moment but I'll soon as I get everything transferred across.