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Sorry about that. Nobody can make an omelette without breaking some eggs (or are they uggs?)... anyhow, the good thing is: these ones can be unbroken... ain't that great?

Maybe DIMouseHz helps?

cdob rocks! Thanks for sharing the good news: you do rock, too! And to be fair, RLoew rocks, too: he was the one that discovered/invented the 36 MiB floppy!

@coolman: with all due respect, if you must post those ginormous logs instead of zipping and attachiing them, do please use "spoiler" tags (instead of "code" tags). Thanks!

And also shows the value of keeping a library of known-good backups, preferably from incept time... Congratulations for the successful troubleshooting!

Don't be confused... you're are quite correct, it *is* allowed here to continue a thread beyond the solution of the original question. And it's allowed here to resurrect the most ancient threads, too, provided one has a good reason to do it. My point was what a server 2k3 file would have to do with it, since I really doubt it'll actually work in 9x/ME... I wasn't sure you weren't going wildly off-topic. But I'm satisfied with your reply, so it's OK. In any case, wild off-topic digressions are undesirable, but common, and may be allowed to go on for some time in many cases. I apologise for not being clearer myself, in my previous post. True enough. I really didn't mean my previous post as any kind of remonstration at all. I was puzzled however, and wished the OP to elaborate, in order to better understand. No normal DOS Boxes are a serious deal breaker, from whre I stand, but you may have a point there.

With all due respect, what does this have to do with your original question (which is solved, BTW)? This is the 9x/ME forum, you know.

I confirm it supports Seagate 2 TB Free Agent External USB HDDs. Now, 2 TB is 1.862 GiB... so that much I guarantee it supports OK. USB 3.0 HDDs are no problem either, since they are guaranteed to work in USB 2.1 mode (i. e. "USB 2.0 compatibility mode). I see no reason whatsoever for any of the current 2 TB USB HDDs in the market to have compatibility problems with Win 2k, regardless of their brand.

Precisely. I confirm that.

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No. Not here. Moved to the proper thread. Please pay attention where you post.

Done. If you think some previous post fits better here, please let me know. @Drugwash: congrats, you became thread starter! Cheers to you all!

As soon as you decide to release it, Leyok, please do open a new thread. I'll make it sticky as soon as I see it.

This is and has been, from the start, completely an in-house matter. Rest assured of that. MSFN remains an independent entity, as it has always been, from the start. Now, CharlotteTheHarlot, the thread has been moved, it's now located in a place where it has the same or even more visibility than before, no content or info was lost and it remains available for everybody. Let's leave it at that. This thread I'm posting in right now has really no reason to continue. The problem is solved.

See this and this.

True enough. Myself, I use preferentially QFE. I've had to fall back to GDR in one case already, but it really is a very rare happening.

MS, that's for sure. MDGx , I don't think so... see this page. However it's true that the GDR branch is the safer one to use (and bphlpt's post two posts above this one explains in more detail what's involved). @Drugwash: that's great news! I'll be testing it as soon as I manage to reboot into 98SE. Thanks a lot!

Way to go, Drugwash! I'd love to be able to do it on 9x/ME! @all: most of the time, the goodies are in the SP3QQFE subdirectory, and the rest can be ignored. Sometimes, however, there are .INFs worth looking at elsewhere in the final directory structure.

In a nutshell, gdr versions incorporate cumulatively all previous security patches including the latest mentioned in the respective KB document. Now, qfe versions include all that plus all the previous hotfixes (functionality patches, not security patches). Hardcore users prefer the qfe branch updates, but MS recommends the better tested gdr for general use (and that's what windows update site intalls by default, in principle, unless it already finds qfe files present). To make things still more complicated, of late MS decided to call qfe versions ldr, so that now there are three possible labels around, for the same version numbers, although files are issued either as qfe or ldr but never as both (which, I insist, at the end of the day, mean the same).

But, for me at least, it's far from clear whether it's possible to correctly unpack Intra-Package Deltas-Aware Packages from 9x/ME. And from the NT-family, it's one of those rare cases in which the native functionality is quite enough, so I really see no advantage in using the Universal Extractor for this purpose. I do find the Universal Extractor awesome and wonderful, and do use it for lots of things, constantly, but not for this.

Of course the kernel32.dll (both the gdr and the qfe versions) are there! With all due respect, haven't you ever heard about Intra-Package Deltas-Aware Packages? Do the following: under win 2k or higher, download file, put it in an arbitrary empty directory, then open a DOS-box there and run: WindowsXP-KB2758857-x86-ENU /x:..\thefiles <Enter> It'll fully unpack to the (newly created) thefiles subdirectory of your arbitrary empty directory.

Win XP SP3 kernel32.dll v. 5.1.2600.6293 (xpsp_sp3_qfe.121001-1624), which is the latest one available, does have .reloc information, and I presume previous versions might do, too, at least in the QFE branch...