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<blockquote data-quote="littlematt" data-source="post: 403963" data-attributes="member: 25302">Ya mate just install xp with sp3. Once you have all your drivers (or before if you think you will be changing drivers/cards and such) and updated windows (if you can heh) then back up an image of your HDD. I use acronis true image on the hiren boot CD which can be found... in various places =). Once you have your nice fresh xp image backed up you can install mp to your hearts content, and it saves SO much time to have an image of a fresh xp install backed up. This way you can just restore the image to get back to square one, rather than start all over again with xp boot disk and all that. Hope this makes sense... Oh yeah, of course to back up your OS partition you will need a second partition to put the image on to. So split your 250gb HDD into a 30gb OS partition (c) and the other 220gb partition into an everything else partition.Good luck,&nbsp; Matt</blockquote>

[QUOTE="littlematt, post: 403963, member: 25302"] Ya mate just install xp with sp3. Once you have all your drivers (or before if you think you will be changing drivers/cards and such) and updated windows (if you can heh) then back up an image of your HDD. I use acronis true image on the hiren boot CD which can be found... in various places =). Once you have your nice fresh xp image backed up you can install mp to your hearts content, and it saves SO much time to have an image of a fresh xp install backed up. This way you can just restore the image to get back to square one, rather than start all over again with xp boot disk and all that. Hope this makes sense... Oh yeah, of course to back up your OS partition you will need a second partition to put the image on to. So split your 250gb HDD into a 30gb OS partition (c) and the other 220gb partition into an everything else partition. Good luck, Matt [/QUOTE]

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