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I suppose your problem has something to do with a wrong default gateway or DNS. Can you post the output of winipcfg here? (Start->Run->Winipcfg, push the 'More info' button, hit Ctrl-C, paste here)

W9x cannot handle an ISO bigger than 4 GiB. But a DVD is generally build of several files, each <4GiB, which is no problem. A movie on a standard video DVD is chopped in several files of 1 GiB or less. This is done to be compatible with OSs which cannot handle very big files. This is not only W9x, but also the OS of a standalone DVD player. As long as you don't try to fit the contents of a DVD in a single file, handling a DVD is no problem. It's just another filesystem, just like FAT32, which has a limit (on W9x) of 2 TiB, 4 GiB per file.

It's a W98 limit too. W9x uses a 32 bit filepointer to keep track of the read/write location in the file. This limits the filesize to 4GiB. Fat32 uses a 32 bit field to store the filesize, which gives the same limit.

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Be consequent. Just dump minutes and seconds and start talking about centi- deci- and millidays. One old second is ~10 microday.

If you can lay your hands on W2000 Advanced Server, the /3GB switch is available. But even without this switch it makes sense to add lots of memory. While a single process cannot use more than ~2GB, two processes can use around 4GB. The legacy 'compatibility mode' for playing DOS games is partly available for W2000. Have a look here.

Well, this is going slightly off-topic. You will know that 1 kB is not 1000 bytes but 1024. Yet the 'k' prefix means 1000. In 'binary environments' it was practise to use the 'k' prefix for 1024, because it's easy, it was relatively accurate (only 2.4% wrong), and there was no other prefix available. But memory and disks became bigger. the difference between a 'real' MB and a 'practical' MB is almost 5%, for GB this is 7.3%, and for TB this will be 10%. Your brandnew 1TB disk will be 100GB too small! As Fredledingue stated: 'The bigger the drives are the bigger the difference'. And the 'binary environment' became less well defined. The decimal and binary prefixes became mixed. In earlier days I had an 14k4 modem, which could handle a full duplex 14400 bits/second. In this case a 'k' is obviously 1000. Why? Isn't is a 'binary device'? What about my 4Mb broadband? It turns out to be 4000000b. But the upload is 1Mb, which is 1048576b. Did you know that the 1.44MB floppy size is 1.44 * 1024 * 1000 bytes? So this practise became inconvenient. For this reason the IEC introduced the binary prefixes Ki, Mi, Gi, ... The harddisk manufacturers are right when they sell you a 160GB harddisk which can contain 160000000000 bytes. They are using an international standard. It would be nice if they sold you a 149GiB disk, but as long as their competitors don't, they cannot do that. Vista (and all OSs) should use the right prefix. Using standards in a wrong way is confusing and error prone.

That's true. In this case Windows is wrong. It should not mention the disk as 149GB, but 149GiB. On the other hand, W98 is older than the '99 IEC convention, so how could it conform? On the third hand, AFAIK Vista still does it wrong.

No they're not. A 160 GB disk should be able to store 160 * 109 bytes. This equals to 149 GiB which is 149 * 230. This is convented by the IEC in 1999.@awergh: Theoretically your test is not rock solid. There could be corruption which do not stop Windows from booting. Since you've passed the 128 GiB limit with 32 GiB, about 25% of the disk should be currupted when the patch doesn't work. I *think* you're safe, since I can't imagine that windows would not give a single complain with such a corruption, but it *is* possible. LLXX advices that you should test the disk integrety with scandisk, after having filled it with data. You should *not* use W98 scandisk, which can corrupt partitions bigger than 127 GiB, but WinME scandisk, or some 3th party scanner. In any case it's recommended to exchange scandisk and defrag with the WinME versions, when using partitions >127 GiB, as you can read earlier in this thread.

I'm sorry, I really don't know what you're talking about. FAT32 has a 32 bits address for each cluster in the FAT. For W2000 the four most significant bits are reserved. Maybe they weren't for W9x, but that doesn't matter, since these bits will only be used on partitions bigger than 8 TiB, which is impossible on W9x, because it can't handle disks bigger than 2 TiB due to its 32 bit sector counter. In this document, page 16, you can see that those bits are masked away anyway. I cannot follow your argumentation that due to the use of only 28 bits XP cannot be installed on FAT32. To get a backdoor it first has to be installed. The first defence firewall/virusscanner/browser safety will catch away most menaces. When the filesystem had to protect against these malware the war had been lost yet, since many (most?) XP systems are run in an administrator account, switching off all security. Further, the files which are protect by the filesystem are in most cases the OS itself. Why would a trojan upload these? You can copy them from each XP cd. The most interesting files are personal documents, which are available anyway, because the user is logged in.

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I have a W95 system running without KVM. It works fine with UltraVNC. Alas I couldn't find a way to make W95 running without videocard, so I had to sacrifice one (ISA) slot. You'll have to setup the BIOS not to complain about a missing keyboard, else you'll have to 'press F1 to continue' booting.

AFAIK there's no way to make them visible, but you can use the 'net use' command to map the directories to a driveletter. net use X: "\\server\long sharename with spaces"

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I think you're mistaken. When you already default to the biggest possible clustersize, increasing a FAT volume doesn't add extra overhead/slack. WinXP can't create a FAT partition bigger than 32 GiB, but that limit is artificial. 3th party PM can create FAT32 partitions as big as you want it. However, there are two ~128 GiB limits which can be confusing you: The LBA28 limit, which limits the number of adressable sectors to 228, which is 128 GiB. This limit is overcomen by the LBA48 addressing scheme, which is supported by XP SP1 and W2000 SP3. The second limit is the W9x disk tools limit. W9x Scandisk and Defrag cannot handle partitions bigger than ~127 GiB due to a poor memory management. Of course none of these issues can hurt an XP64 system. Some other remarks: This will be the journaling system. Why *should* it be infected? Infected with what?

The theoretical limit is much bigger. As you mention, 28 bits are used for cluster addressing. That makes a maximum of 268 million clusters. Clusters can be as big as 32 kB, which gives a maximum of 8 TiB. (The FAT will be 1 GiB on such a beast)

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The leanest browser I ever saw (besides Lynx), is Off by One

That can be true, but complains about beta's and rc's should be send to the supplier, and not to a forum like this.

When you insert the stick, windows asks for the driver. Then you point to the directory containing the files. If windows doesn't ask for the driver anymore because it already loaded the (wrong) driver, you can go to Device Manager, find trhe stick, and via properties choose 'Update driver', where you point to the right driver.

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A lot of onboard devices are PCI devices too. Maybe System Information for Windows can tell you what this is.

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99.9% this is the root cause. Solutions: 1) Ignore it. 2) Unplug the cardreader. 3) Disable the cardreader in device management. 4) Use diskmanager to mount the drives on a directory instead of a disk letter.