The beast has arrived
Got the call from The Computer Shop and collected my PC.
Before hooking everything up I opened the case and removed the modem (I connect through an ADSL router) and the PCI WiFi adapter (I'll use it on another PC).
Booted straight into WinXP home - very much Tiny branded.
Rebooted using Ultimate Boot CD and ghosted the C: drive to DVD-R.
Popped in my WinXP Pro CD (SP2 slipstreamed), reformatted C: and installed XP Pro.
All went well. A quick inspection of Device Manager listed 6 ? devices so the driver hunt began.
The supplied driver CDROM sorted out the Ethernet, but nothing else - got on with other stuff.
Connected up external Firewire drive with all my installation stuff.
Installed PartitionMagic and reduced the OS partition to 32GB, leaving 160GB for User data.
Left the second drive at 200GB.
Installed Norton IS, Webroot Spysweeper, TweakUI & WinZip.
Plugged into the router and hey-presto straight on to the internet.
After multiple runs of WindowsUpdate and Norton Live update I went off to the FIC site and downloaded the audio drivers and to the ATI site for the graphics drivers.
A quick revisit of Device Manager and all is in order.
All I gotta do now is transfer all the user data from the old PC and reinstall all the apps.

