So I’ve installed Windows XP Home Edition on my computer. It’s not really a reinstall because I didn’t delete my old copy. I resized the original NTFS partition with PartitionMagic 8.0 and created a new 45 GB NTFS partition for my new Windows install. It’s nice and fast — and it got most of the drivers from Windows Update, after I went to Dell’s website on another computer to pick up the Intel networking drivers.
Some notes, since I haven’t installed Windows for a long time. When running Windows Update for the first time, there’s a new Windows installer and some other stuff. On the second run, it came up with this long list of security updates:
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