Re: OT: a Win XP "trap for amateurs"?

Michael wrote:
"T. Rex" wrote:
Are you kidding? If he could read and follow instructions, he never
would have tried installing XP in a 2GB partition in the first place.

I have the OEM version of XP, one CD and a little booklet, the latter of which I
did indeed read and follow, Mr. T. The rather skimpy instructions cover
everything - all the details that noone knows, e.g. what a partition is and that
formatting destroys data - but do not - I say again, *not* - say a word about
boot partition size. I just looked again to be certain. Install wouldn't let
me specify 1GB but was happy with 2 GB.
After two years and about 150 programs/packs installed,
14GB used out of 80 GB.
.

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