I am soooo bored of progress bars, error messages and install CDs, I cannot possibly tell you. Plus I now know much much more about partition tables, file systems, disk recovery and master boot records than I ever wished to. Allow me to explain, expand, expound and exposit.
A short while ago a friend of mine donated an old PC to my cause, as my ageing machine was only a Pentium III 1Ghz, and was quite frankly creaking with age. The donated machine, an off-cast of his brother-in-law’s, was slightly faster being an AMD K6 1400Mhz with a much better graphics card and a couple of bigger hard drives than I had. I decided that this was the time to move on up to Windows XP and away from Windows 2000. That stage of things went pretty smoothly, all in all, although one thing that did catch me out was my not noticing that the motherboard had an extra 12v power socket next to the AGP graphics slot. This ultimately caused several BSODs and misc shutdowns, but in the end I found it and nothing was lost.