Your Windows XP Install Time

[Evolution]

4 minutes, sysprep + ghost are a beautiful combination

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That's not what he's asking. The question is how long it takes to install when you first place the XP cd into your drive.

And to be fair, I think only times for a full install should be polled...not un-attended installations, or modified installations.

[Gazza12]

Around 40 mins at the College.

[Gibwar]

Mine installs right around 16 minutes.

AMD Athlon64 3000+

1GB DDR400 RAM

160GB Western Digital 7200rpm

[Sensayshun]

From having nothing on hard drive to being able to browse web use messenger etc. takes 20mins.

I always laugh at the way when you start it says estimated time: 90 minutes, and it counts down in 5 minute steps :p

And I'm only on an athlon XP 2200, 512 of RAM, and a horrid IDE hard drive which I don't think has any cache, 2mb at most.

[THE BAT]

approx. 20 min.

i think

[Dr.Jones]

Mine always says 39 minutes :D

[Aaron P]

25 minutes from start to finish with all of my applications, however this is running setup from within Windows PE and sourcing from a 2nd hard disk, no CDs involved.

[NoneAvail]

10min... you got to love norton ghost...

then another 2 hours to install my fav apps

[Inertia]

10min... you got to love norton ghost...

then another 2 hours to install my fav apps

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if you are ghosting to a dvdr or other high cpacity media, then why not install the apps before you take the image ?

[uniacidz]

I love Ghost also.

Havent done a full reisnatll in ages. But usually 35mins for windows.

Then another few hours configuring programs, installing other stuff.

Ghost is my saviour. 25min from DVD Image, once booted, update a couple hotfixes maybe and updates for progs and im done.

[PiracyX]

Mine takes around 15-18mins to install my slipstreamed version with sp2, thats isnt modified with nlite. With my stripped edition of XP it takes 8mins to complete.

[spikey_richie]

XP Lite custom install will take no time at all.

And it depends on types of devices (IDE/SCSI/SATA)

Different mobos

Different gfx cards

etc...

[Pink Floyd Veteran]

1-7 mins lol

liars

[chopyaedoff]

why have you bumped an old thread

[spikey_richie]

It's not a bump when it's a valid reply...

[psybapunk]

thread wasn't old, get over it child.

[+Warwagon MVC]

why have you bumped an old thread

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ya I hate people that moan and groan about people bumping old threads, they have all the threads saved for a reason and if they want to make a comment to an old one let em.

[JiveMasterT]

like 15 min for the actual windows drop... about 45 min total with all of my installs on my unattended cd...

[ryanstein]

I voted 20-25, but that's with additional apps. I don't consider an install complete without installing Firefox, iTunes...etc.

[planetik]

I voted for "20 - 25" but I'm not sure because I never stare at a screen with a progress bar.

Life's too short

[zimm2]

20 to 35 minutes depends what CD Drive I put it into.