Puppy saved me a LOT of time and not pulling my hair out.
Posted: Mon 12 Dec 2005, 06:41
I decided to switch back to WinME from Win2000 to see if some of my problems would go away. The problem was I have data and games installed that I do NOT want to install again! That stuff is on DVDs and takes hours to install.
Puppy came to the rescue. I converted the drive from NTFS to FAT32 with Partition Magic and then booted my Puppy CD. I then used puppy to delete all the Winblows files and stuff I didn't want. When I was done I had an empty FAT32 drive with just the stuff I wanted. Now I will install WinME without formatting the drive and not have to reinstall all that stuff.
Let me forstall the warnings I may get. I know Winblows games make registry entries. Well, if they don't work any more tough luck on me I can reinstall them if I HAVE to. At least I still have my data files and that's the MAIN stuff I wanted to keep.
FOLLOWUP:
No, same crap with WinME. Windows just plain sucks.
If anybody ever finds an emulator like VMWare or something that is 100% compatable, runs at native speed and handles DirectX let me know. All I need windows for is my heavy duty games. Guess my current Win2000/Puppy dual boot system is the best setup for me.
Puppy came to the rescue. I converted the drive from NTFS to FAT32 with Partition Magic and then booted my Puppy CD. I then used puppy to delete all the Winblows files and stuff I didn't want. When I was done I had an empty FAT32 drive with just the stuff I wanted. Now I will install WinME without formatting the drive and not have to reinstall all that stuff.
Let me forstall the warnings I may get. I know Winblows games make registry entries. Well, if they don't work any more tough luck on me I can reinstall them if I HAVE to. At least I still have my data files and that's the MAIN stuff I wanted to keep.
FOLLOWUP:
No, same crap with WinME. Windows just plain sucks.
If anybody ever finds an emulator like VMWare or something that is 100% compatable, runs at native speed and handles DirectX let me know. All I need windows for is my heavy duty games. Guess my current Win2000/Puppy dual boot system is the best setup for me.