dencorso

It's a no-go! They send to Italy and the UAE, but not to Brazil or the Vatican... RecycledGoods, OTOH, ships everywhere.

Both USB and Ethernet are hot-pluggable/unpluggable. Best solution is to plug/backup/unplug by hand. Do it yourself (= don't delegate) and it sure shall be there whenever needed. Eliminate PEBCAK by trusting no one but yourself. Works for home. Big orgs like hospitals and, worse still, multi-office 24x7 enterprises are a never-ending nightmare, because PEBCAK chance grows uncontrollably. That's life, folks!

That's good news! Then the problem is the virtual processor your hypervisor is showing to FF does not support SSE2. In this case all you need to do is to find out how to configure your hypervisor to show a newer virtual processor (one that supports SSE2). Now, as to how exactly do you do that, it depends on which hypervisor are you using, and then, they certainly have a support forum that can offer you more detailed specific support and help.

Recycled Goods, in California uses to have them from time to time, though not right now, it seems. They've provided me my two YE Data YD 8U10 USB External 3.5 FDD units, which still work great, so I know they offer good quality used hardware and ship abroad (I'm in Brazil). Visit them from time to time or send them an e-mail indicating your interest, and they may even source one for you. Good luck!

Usually one should also howl to the moon throughout the dance, which most perform in the buff... but this later part is said to be optional...

Does your actual processor support SSE2 support?

WindowsXP-KB942288-v3-x86.exe is multilanguage, isn't it?

Sure you came to the right place! Welcome!

@Mcinwwl is right: For those who have a sound backup strategy (viz., say, data and OSes separated, independent backups of each, forensic grade known-good images for OSes and file-based backups for data) ransomware is irrelevant. If it happens to get in, just sanitize and redeploy the backups. So, truth is: only the improvident can be victimized by it. Then again, the above solution cures any kind of malware incident, regardless of the type of malware involved.

Which version are you using?

You're right: Ronaldinho Gaucho is one of the last true soccer geniuses Brazil has ever given to the world. The only USB drives we know for sure that work are WDC My Passport and WDC My Book Essential... and IIRR they're precisely that type of external USB HDD that don't have neither a SATA nor an IDE connector, internally, so that they become unusable if taken out of the enclosure... That said, I have four units of the 2 TB My Passports from when they were first launched, and all remain working reliably to this day. Here's a disassembly video, just for the record:

My native language is Portuguese, jaclaz's is Italian, and yours may be Catalan or Spanish. I understood you quite well. you asked: I replied with the short answer to 1st part of the question "I just want to know if the POSReady 2009 can read-write hard drives over 2 TB?" Then I had the bad idea of adding the 2nd remark " In truth, XP x64 cannot either." Because all tyipes of XP and 2003 can read/write external USB MBR drives over 2.2 TB since the drives present themselves to the USB stack as being MBR with 4 kiB sectors. I wasn't thinking about GPT at all, up to this point... If I had, I'd mentioned GPT support was sort of added to the x64 versions, but I consider it unreliable. Mathwhiz's thoughts followed the same avenue as mine had, as you can see by his own reply. Only jaclaz, who has more interest than the others mentioned here on GPT thought about that. I can only reply to what I think you meant, and I'm fully cognizant that it may not be what you meant to mean. Yet I meant no disrespect to you, I just wanted to help. It turns out you were perhaps too much terse, since you failed to mention you wanted to use GPT in a context GPT is not at all obvious. But I guess now all that has been clarified. Sorry. I really didn't mean to confuse you.

dencorso claims XP x64 cannot run (= boot and operate) from a > 2.2 TB drive. Just that. As jaclaz said, there are arcane ways to coerce it to do so, but that's unreliable, so does not count for serious use. Moreover, all NT 5.x+ OSes, both x86 and x64, from 2k to 8.1, can run from a 64-80 GB partition confortably, which is perfect for fast (forensic-quality) full-image backups, easy and fast to restore, when warranted. So, in dencorso's opinion, it's utterly self-defeating to run multiple OSes and keep all important data together in a singly partitioned huginormous multi-TB single disk. Even an average doorknob can understand that, upon trying.

Since you're working (a lot, but to meager effect) very loudly, you oughtn't to count yourself among those who work silently (because you don't).

Access to > 2.2 TB drives through the USB stack (to which at least those from WDC present 4 kiB sectors) is native on XP. The issue is not in XP nor in XP x64, much less in either x86 or x64 Server 2003... It's in the MBR standard. So there's no way to overcome it with 512 byte sectors, and holding your breath won't solve anything. Aligning has nothing whatsoever to do with that. You want a single partition per drive, bigger than 2.2 TB. You're free to want anything, but it won't happen. Not now. Not ever. Initial denial is the first step to eventual acceptance. You've got your answers. Repeating the questions won't change the answers.

The answer is 42.

No! No way. No how. Not at all. Don't hold your breath. Nyet. Nein. 不. BTW, what part of "No!" did you fail to understand?

No. It's a limitation of the MBR, not of XP. In truth, XP x64 cannot either.

I see those d@*# flash video adds on cnn and haven't yet found a way to separate them from the real news. Thanks to those pestering ads, I'll never ever visit Abu Dabi nor S Africa, they show right before, then once more right after each news video!

The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky

What part of the quoted below statement did you fail to understand? Does this help any?

Just the serial number won't be enough. That number will work with the appropriate image (Lenovo OEM) in case the BIOS contains the proper SLIC3.0. But virtualbox will also virtualize the BIOS, so that the Windows inside it won't see the real machine BIOS, it'll see the virtual one instead. However, if the machine has say linux or another unix (viz. BSD or Illumos) as the main OS and the original windows has been removed it can be installed inside virtualbox (and this can be construed as being still legal because just one instance of the Windows OS is being used in the selfsame machine it was licenced to). Yet, for it to actually work the user will have to copy/clone the SLIC3.0 from the real machine BIOS into the virtualbox one, which is teoretically possible (but legally somewhat greyzone). Now, in case the machine "dies", even if the virtual box created as described may still work on other hardware, then it'll be an illegal (but functional) installation, because the OEM licence is married to the hardware it was sold with, and hence it did "die" with the original hardware. Please notice I'm no lawyer, and these are just my 2 ¢ on the subject, but I think I'm giving you a tenable interpretation of how it stands.

Since you've bought the Win 8.1 media from Dell, you can double boot legally, and it should just work. To use it in virtualbox, you'd need to add the Dell SLIC 3.0 to the virtualbox BIOS, and that is feasible, but needs much more work.

Probably not because, once created, it would be zero cost to push the hotfix onto all POSReady too... unless, as you presumed, its for some thing not present on POSReady... but, at the end of the day, I strongly doubt any of those things not present on POSReady would ever need a security update... and the only outstanding compatibility issue is with Intel's USB 3.0/3.1 drivers, but I do believe that anything as important as that would certainly leak sooner or later, hence I'm sure things like that don't actually exist, up to now. Of course these are just my own 2 ¢, but you did ask for a conjecture, now, didn't you?

Some assign this truism to a quotation of Einstein. It can, however, be traced back to Flaubert and, actually, ought to be much older than that.