Shuttle pc.
 

Friend of mines off travelling for six months and is lending me his shiny new Shuttle pc :) . If I whip out his hard drive and fit a new blank disk and buy XP OEM version for £50 is it straightforward from there...just boot from CD drive, install windows and the drivers for the shuttle and off I go or I am I being naive and missing something?
Any comments/help appreciated from you guys.

Re: Shuttle pc.
 

Yes thats pretty much it I think.
Make sure you have that anti static wrist band attached to you so you dont damage any components.
Then just fit the drive, put in XP, and then it should load up and let you format the drive, set up any partitions you want, and install Windows.

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You may want to check your mates hardware config to see what drivers you may need to hand during/ after the install. XP can handle basic drivers for most hardware but if your mates PC has any hardware that XP can't handle you could be in trouble.
Try running this
http://www.lavalys.com/products/down...?pid=1&lang=en
on it before you rip his drive out of it.

Re: Shuttle pc.
 

Obligatory Linux pimping:

Rather than spending £50 on Windows, why not give Linux a try? It's free, and you've got absolutely nothing to lose -- if you don't like it, you can just install Windows over the top. The best version for newcomers is Ubuntu -- download it at www.ubuntulinux.org.

It can do almost everything -- web browsing, email, music -- just as well, and in some cases much better than Windows. The only thing lacking is the ability to play games easily, but with a Shuttle PC you probably won't be doing this anyway.

Go on, give it a try!

EDIT: I forgot to say that you can also try it out beforehand (to find out about hardware compatability etc) by downloading one of the Live CD versions from the website above. This is a trial version that runs entirely from the CD -- it doesn't touch the harddrive at all.

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why dont you buy norton ghost and create a ghost image onto dvd or cd whichever he has installed??? Then use his system as is but restore using ghost when he is back home,surely this is cheaper and easier

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Windows costs money? :P

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Thanks guys for the advice.