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Well... one difference I consider big is that the "system" user is not the one with highest access rights anymore: NT6 added the now famous "TrustedInstaller"... and, IIRR, on NT6 the drivers and services run on a different "machine" than the logged-in user session (but since one can impersonate the "TrustedInstaller", it's just another layer of obfuscation, not really any true added security, IMO... lots of people will differ, of course). I remember there was a good summary of those changes somewhere, but I cannot just now remember where. When I do, I'll sure add it to this post, so more later. Later edit: here it is!

OTOH, it may be this single excerpt: "in time, like tears in rain."

Suppose you have a big jigsaw-puzzle, completely solved, supported by a hard-cardboard resting on four upright bricks. Then you go to it and kick the cardboard so that the jigsaw-puzzle is fully separated and sent flying everywhere. Yet, after gathering all the pieces and spending a considerable amount of time and effort it's possible to get the full jigsaw-puzzle solved again. The reason that's difficult to do is the 2nd law of Thermodynamics (it's entropy decreases as the jigsaw-puzzle is being solved). The reason it's actually possible to do it at all is that, since it's a game created to be solved, all its pairs of pieces can be arraged in a single unique way, because of the way they cut (in other words: they preserve connectivity info, even when disordered). However, when one writes 0s over all places in a storage medium, not a single trace of the previous info remains, because the "brush" used to write the zeroes is the same as that of the "brush" used previously to write the info. So nothing remains and no connectivity is preserved. It's gone. Even if you happen to recover a bunch of 1s and 0s in this way, how long would it take to get back one single byte of info, and at what cost? And how many bits do you think might actually be salvageable, in this ultra-expensive way?

Not like that. But if you create an .ISO image and post it publicly so that anyone can download it, that constitutes unauthorized redistribution. Whether doing that is actually illegal depends on where you are. For sure, it'd be against MSFN's Rules to attach it here (or give a direct link to it, viz. Rule # 1.b).

Not always: it depends on the browser and on the browser version, so that it's somewhat less crappy on FF 49+ and quite bad on IE up to 9. The older versions, which did implement BBCode right was way much better than this lame duck we're now stuck with, however

And that's why they feared Pelagius so much: he opened a window for hope! Since then, one can always hope for the best, and give it a try, anyway.

Your board has 2 PCI slots, so the simplest solution would be to give it a good old VIA VT6105 (10/100Mbps) Fast Ethernet Card (available for about US$ 5 on Mercado Livre). If your internet access is not above 100Mbps, you might disable the onboard Ethernet and use the VIA card for all your setups...

I know. I still have two Zip100s and a Zip250 (all IDE) sitting on a shelf right beside me here. But LS-120s look more like floppies and can actually read and write common floppies... that's what I was thinking about: looks, not actual reliability.

Well, you could have used an LS-120, and that'd be even nearer to a floppy, right? (One can run floppies from a superdisk drive...).

Z97? Wildcat Point? Socket 1150. Haswell or later. Not a great choice for XP, much less for XP Home, IMO. Somebody will tell you "of course you can do it", and it's true (sort of), but it'll be a lame duck, believe me... Realtek ALC1150? I doubt it might have an official driver for XP... and no USB 3.0 driver either. If you're using XP just as a secondary OS, XP-mode in a virtual machine over 7 x64 is your best bet. Or even use just the XP-image from XP-mode (which is XP Pro!) on Oracle VirtualBox over 7 x64 (it rocks!).

By using an admin account instead?

8 added Metro and removed the Start menu, hence the shock. But all that could be undone by tweaking, because the underlying engines remained there. 10, instead, crippled more seriously the latent funcionalities of the underlying engines and added telemetry and advertisements, but arriving after 8+, it caused less shock. Were the release order the reverse, 8 might have been hailed as a steer back to the right direction. Ever heard of "the goat and the Rabbi"? MS used one of the oldest tricks in the book to try an' slide 10 down people's throats...

Here's the <link> to get there, just in case you don't have it handy. Also, do, please, answer my two questions quoted below:

That's easy: there still wasn't 10 around... were it, 8'd get only love.

The Dell 530s has na ICH9... So it should work. Then again, life's full of things that should but don't, so I suggest you go to Fernando's forum, grab the driver he recommends (preferably his modded version) and update your intel SATA driver, before trying once again. You obviously have a sort-of working driver already, but maybe a slightly later version might like your SSD some more... BTW, which SSD (maker and model) is it exactly? And if it was bought used, why didn't you zero it out fully, before reusing, if I may so ask?

Dibya: Please do stop asking people to do your work for you! The way to learn what you want to learn is by patient trial-and-error. If there were anybody wishing to tutor/teach you on those things, that person would've contacted you already.

XP SP3 does run on SATA all right! You've got to give it a driver by slipstreaming or F6 to install it on SATA, but that's very old news. This machine I'm posting from is SATA-only and I'm on XP SP3 booted from an SSD (viz. a 40GB FAT-32 partition of an 120 GB OCZ VERTEX3 SATA 6Gb/s on an Intel Core i7 3770K powered Asus P8Z68-V LX).

Neither have I...

Are you using IE8 or IE6?

Ask @jumper: he's a member here!

Of course someone could.

OK. bigmuscle will reply soon.

意味さない

Hence: 4 bytes = 2^32 values LBA (= linear number) od *sectors*. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record#PTE

@cc333: Before you install POSReady Updates, IMO you should download from the links I'm giving here and install the following updates: WindowsXP-KB892130-ENU-x86.exe - Windows Genuine Advantage Validation v1.9.42.0 (KB892130); WindowsXP-KB898461-x86-ENU.exe - Permanent copy of the Package Installer for Windows (KB898461); WindowsXP-KB942288-v3-x86.exe - Windows Installer 4.5 (KB942288). WindowsXP-KB2898785-x86-ENU.exe (the Dec 2013 Security Update for Windows Internet Explorer 6); WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe, using the /wuforce switch, on the command-line; and IE8, using IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe, the standalone package. then, with automatic updates disabled, access WU and search for updates using the "Custom" option... and when the list appears, do hide both KB905474 (the WGA Notifications - not needed at all) and KB2934207 (XP EoS Nag).