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Go with and stay with XP, the Professional version if you have it. 98 lacks a lot of hardware support, and there is nothing good about Vista - I'd sooner put DOS on my machine than that thing. You may wish to partition your disk and do a dual-boot setup with Linux, though I'd save the majority of disk space for XP. All you have to do to install XP is put your XP disc in the drive. If you want to create a dual-boot system, create at least two partitions and have XP format the main C: drive partition as FAT32 (you can have another partition as NTFS so you can handle files over 4 Gb in size. You need FAT32 to be able to dual-boot properly and share files with the Linux or 98 partition as neither one recognizes NTFS.) You will need a second partition for the other OS and a third if you want to run an NTFS disk. After that, if you want to dual-boot with Linux (or even 98 for that matter), just put the appropriate CD in the drive after installing XP and they'll do the rest. Whatever you do, make sure you run Windows Update, the Linux patcher, or, for Windows 98, download the updates manually.
-Do you believe you own your computer and shouldn't be told what you can run and do? Then say *NO* to Microsoft Vista!
-Since half the questions here involve media problems, here ya go: Only use Verbatim or Taiyo-Yuden discs (get your TYs from Rima.com, not Supermediastore or meritline). Forget the rest, no matter what "brand" they sell under. Always burn at 4x speed regardless of the speed rating of this discs or your drive. If you have burn problems with these then you have to update your drive's firmware. For double-layer discs, only use Verbatim DVD+R DL and burn them at 2.4x speed.
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