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Is your PCI (??? do you mean PCI-e ?) card based on uPD720200/720200a or on uPD720201/720202? What southbridge does your motherboard work on?

Kai Schtrom's drivers are an open-source port to 2k3 of the open-source Community OFA NVMe drivers. So, anyone with time, patience and C-programming ability could undertake to convert it to scsiport.sys from storport.sys, in order to enable proper XP-friendly behavior. Yet, on hardware lacking any other storage media, @Dietmar had lots of sucess with Kai's drivers and storport.sys, having succeeded even with booting from NVMe on XP (do read the long thread I gave you a link to, it's worth the effort) !!! .................... Thanks for the info on the Panasonic driver ,,, I'll sure pursue it and report back.

Try using Noctua or GELID Solutions "GELID Silent Series" fans, and you'll be very near that!

That's not exact. ASMedia and Renessas/NEC provide full working drivers and work flawlessly in every situation. I've had a long personal experience of using them (from incept time) without any issues. Intel driver stack does not exist and are a big problem, because they come with every Intel chipset, from Panther Point on, and usually can even be the only USB 3 hardware present on most Intel-intended boards, from that-point-in-time on. VIA hardware is said to support XP too, but I've never had any personal exerience with them, so I really don't know. Other manufacturer's USB 3 hardware, in case any exists, I know nothing about. The hoped-for ReactOS universal USB 3 driver stack had a promising start in 2016, due to Ramateja's work, but then ground down to a stop and remains on a back-burner since then. I think this is the shortest precise summary possible of this really complex and pressing issue. The Toshiba drivers also support Blu-Ray, according to MDGx. Those by Panasonic I know nothing about, and I'd be much grateful to you if you kindly elaborate on them or provide links to 3rd-party info on them. Well, there are Kai Schtrom's drivers, which depend on 2k3's storport.sys, which @Dietmar has had lots of success with. Myself, OTOH, have failed miserably at getting to work, presumably due to the fact that storport.sys appears unable to get loaded on machines already running scsiport.sys. There are two more threads about this, one here and the other over on reboot.pro, but I don't have links to them on hand to provide. All of them, however, include posts by @Dietmar, so they can easily be found by perusing his post lists (member's content).

It's too bad 911cd is there no more.

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Just FYI, not that it matters, but that's not slang. Those are insulting words, bad words or 4-letter words (even if that one, in particular, has actually 5 letters).

All your system's partitions are visible from each other, right? Run MBAM3 from Win 10 on the whole machine. Or do it from a bootable MBAM3 CD/DVD if that's possible. In case nothing wrong is found, then we may proceed troubleshooting. What d'you say?

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And there's also this KILLCHS.EXE by Clemens Fruhwirth, which I've compiled (for DOS) a long time ago by request, for something related, IIRR. I'm sure @jaclaz's memory about it wil be clearer than mine. Be as it may, it's freeware and opensource and it's attached below. killchs.7z

Well, the Ranish Partition Manager (PART244.EXE) allows some control but is unable to format FAT-32 with more 16 kiB clusters, although you can always reformat the FAT-32 partition with Ridgecrop's FAT32FORMAT on XP, to fix that, if needed. On the non-free front, RLoew's RFDisk and Symantec's GDISK (on DOS, using direct ATA commands) or GDISK32 on XP may be your best bets.

MS also recommends you use Windows 10 ...

Hi, @Multibooter! Long time no see! It's great to have you around!

Sage words.

No. You want support for it, PM FranceBB. It's not a project MSFN wants to host nor support. One thing is to allow a link to it's git-hub page. To aid and abet it is much more than that, and hasn't been earned, so far.

Or create a cmd to run @heinoganda's MSE updater from the startup folder or as a scheduled task...

I don't think so either. Unless somebody demonstrates convincingly it contains any unredistributables, links to it should be OK.

i7 3770K 4c/8th 3.50GHz, 16GB (4X4) DDR3, 2x120GB SSD Sata III + 2x2TB HDD Sata II, on-chip Intel HD Graphics 4000 GPU No crashes, but no so new system (April 2012)

Of course!

Not Facebook. I'm glad I've never had to touch that, even if only with a 10 ft. pole. Of course, many others here will disagree.

You've always been a cryptic poet, Dibya! Rest assured of that.

We'll always be here for you, Roffen. I'm 56, and Win 10 is a pain to me, too. "This PC" is the new incarnation of "My Computer", as if changing the name of it would "make it new"... I guess this thread elsewhere will be of help for you, just as it was for me: https://superuser.com/questions/972149/hotkey-for-this-pc BTW, if I reach your age with my mind half as sharp as yours is right now, I'll sure give the Lord neverending thanks for that. Being a speaker of English as a second language, like yourself, just reading your English text makes me sure your "logical processors" are operating great, at this very moment.

I'd bet on... You know... in case it ain't broken why try to fix it? But do save the installer for 7.36.0.150, 'cause one never knows when MS may stop offering it and it may, as well, be the last one that works OK on XP (even if just for some time... but any aditional time is better than none, right?). My 2¢ only, of course!

Long enough for our purposes... and if not, that doesn't mean Pale Moon has to fold at the same time. Why, even Links remains alive and kicking.