My dad's computer is running on Windows ME, and it's getting the crap beat out of it from spyware and such. He doesn't want to pay $200 to buy XP Home and install it on his machine... Wow...

First off, I can get XP Home for $100 at Wal-Mart... it's brilliant, isn't it?
Second, my family just got a new Dell Dimension 3000, and a nice little scheme popped into my head...

Take Dad's hard drive and plug it into the big machine upstairs. Copy all of his data into a folder on the big machine. Take his hard drive downstairs, plug it back in, and install XP from the disc that CAME WITH THE NEW COMPUTER!!!!! Has Dell totally lost it? I could install XP on a million machines with that disc! Either way, back to my story...

Once the install is complete (about an hour later... P3 900 MHz... phooey), take the new XP hard drive back upstairs and copy all of the stuff back on to it. Take hard drive downstairs, and presto chango! Dad has XP on his computer without paying anything or losing anything!

Do you like my scheme?


NOTE: Yes, I do have extra CAT5 cables to copy the data directly. I know, I'm so smart.