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Transferring an existing installation between Ahci and P-Ata emulation is known to be complicated and risky. Maybe by using the proper F6 diskette (or slipstreamed driver) and asking the install CD to "repair" (in this case, alter) the existing installation? I have NOT tried it. Other procedures exist, their description is lengthy.

Grazie Jaclaz! I was just surprised that software can still fit in 3MB... Which the recompiled applications could bring by themselves probably.

Hello dear friends! Some applications developed for Linux claim to have versions running on Windows if Cygwin is present. So I install Cygwin, then the applications that require it, and they run? Can it possibly be that simple...? From https://cygwin.com/ and https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html , I understand that - As of Juli 2014, the latest (v1.7.30) runs on Xp Sp3 and later - v1.7.18 is the latest meant for W2k is that correct? And is v1.7.18 the best choice for a plain vanilla W2k? I've found that installer for Xp sp3, the other Win I have to use presently: http://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe but at 725kB it can't be a full installer, is it? Just a fetcher of Web resources, isn't it? I have not found (rather, not reasonably certain) the installer of the v1.7.18 binary http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/#cygwintimemachine http://ftp.eq.uc.pt/software/pc/prog/cygwin/release/cygwin/ http://cygwin.cybermirror.org/release/cygwin/ since the W2k will stay permanently offline, I need a complete installer, not a fetcher. Where can I find that? Recommendations, comments...? Thanks!

I could install W2k prior to EnableBigLba by creating a volume for Win in the disk's first 128GiB. That would be a test. Are the Ahci or Raid drivers for W2k? Intel tells it in the introduction text and in the inf file.

An other fake Transcend CF 300x 8GB. Again with MLC instead of SLC, this one is slow even on big accesses, see Atto screenshots: The optical aspect is excellent, and Transcend recognize the printed serial number as their - except that they manufactured the card with SLC. So the fake makers have manufactured a 200x MLC card and printed an existing serial number from Transcend on it - or they found cards without a serial number, or achieved to erase it.

I have tried nLite for the first time - believe it or not, I had sticked to other methods up to now - and it's really impressive. Especially to integrate drivers, it's easy. I had feared many iterations of several hours each, but nLite just accepted my F6 diskettes and the complete Infinst folder, and the resulting Cd installed Xp on the first attempt. Alone the ability to make bootable Cd would save lengthy experimentation to newcomers. Then, how much time saved at each Windows install, by having useable settings from the beginning! So capable software! Admirable.

I had mistaken CDBurnerXP with an other burner. I should have double-checked but didn't, my fault. My apologies to the author and to the readers.

Molto gentile, tante grazie! I have some material to read and experiment... It probably needs a few trials.

Hello you all! I'd like to integrate some drivers to the XP installation CD: (and also W2k later) - Intel Ahci et Raid drivers, you guessed - Intel Inf installation files - A few Ethernet and sound cards Up to now, I've found - Thousands of pages telling that nLite does it - Explanations from Intel, rather obscure, not for the Ahci drivers, only as unattended installation - Do I remember that HFSlip does it as well? Is there a different way? I imagine something like: - Copy the F6 diskette to a special folder of the copied installation CD - Burn an installation Cd with a boot sector, just like after slipstreaming a service pack Thank you!

How good is CDBurnerXP? Maybe nobody wants to port it. For very few bucks over eCreek, you get an old Nero 5.5 or 6, option Express or (more complete) Burning Rom, which is the Rolls among the Ferrari, and runs guaranteed on W2k, producing CD and DVD accepted everywhere. There are other CD and DVD burners which are free. Some are not as general or easy as Nero, but they are legal and work.

Thank you friends! I'm just trying to add the proper patches after Sp3 to an Xp installation Cd, and if I tried for instance to patch XML8 while only XML6 is present, I'd get an obscure message needing long to interpret (no XML? Not 8? Needs an other patch before? Wrong language? Taken the Vista patch? Worse?). And if I don't slipstream newer versions of the components (ie8...) in the installation disk, it's useful to know that some patches are still needed in case I upgrade after the installation. I did a detailed analysis for W2k, which I knew well for years, and it took me long. Same for W95b. On Xp I'm less easy and would make mistakes. Just to determine a VML version for instance, there must be no help > About menu, and a version number like 5.1.2600 would not tell me more. Hence your help is useful. Cheers!

Hello dear friends! I'm making my patched XP installation disk these days (coming from W2k) and would like to know what version(s) of components ship with XP SP3: (a) Windows Media Player (I see 6.4 and 9.0 on my installation, as is now) ( b ) Internet Explorer (I don't remember if I upgraded) ( c ) XML (d) VML (e) VBS and JS (do they make WSH together?) (f) DotNet (g) Visual Basic Runtime (h) Visual C and C++ Runtime (i) Remote Destktop Connection Client (j) MDAC (klmnopqrstuvwxyz) I've forgotten some... Also, is the LBA48 enabled by default on XPSP3? And the killer question: is there a single GDI and GDI+ on XPSP3, so that patching Windows (MS13-089 and MS13-054) suffices? Or has each application its own copy, and each editor should have distributed a patch, as they should have done for W2k? Thank you!

The error message can have many origins. Testing the disk would be one sensible action. To do that, use the special software offered by the exact manufacturer of the disk. Here are some: Hitachi Dos http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/downloads/dft32_v416_b00.iso Hitachi Windows http://www.hgst.com/support/downloads/ (in 2013) WD http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=4&swid=3 more at Seagate, ex-Samsung - and for laptops, Toshiba etc. Most such software thankfully boots on a diskette or Cdrom, which must first be created using the downloaded programme. In other words, the test is NOT done under Windows, but Dos or some other OS, sometimes none at all. In that way, the test is independent of Windows errors or viruses. Who exacly displays your error message is a bit unclear - is it the Bios ? You could activate the Smart check in the Bios, it may tell you more.

This has nothing to do with fragmentation. Thank you.

It's not the same objective. I believe that disabling (not my equivocal "suppressing") the pagefile in W2k is impossible, until seeing the opposite.

I never succeeded suppressing the pagefile with W2k, despite 4GB Ram presently. It goes easily with Win XP, but apparently W2k demands a minimum amount to write the registry there. Is there a trick?

I tried Sketchup when it was new, and loved its ease of use, as well as its native 3D nature. BUT I gave it up then because: (1) It only worked online (2) I couldn't extract drawings from the 3D models: views and cuts with dimensions, tolerances and so on. Have these two limits been improved meanwhile? And does it run on W2k?

Hello nice people! I play Ski Challenge every year http://www.ski-challenge.com/ (377MB...) and up to the 2013 edition it installed and ran on vanilla W2k smoothly. The 2014 edition feels like the same game engine, but with a different game start, which is globally worse: logic even less logic (as so often with video games), no keyboard input, bad interaction with the firewall coupled with the screen resolution, and so on - but we will live with that. I played on Xp, which I needed for other reasons. After the season's end and the release of the complete 2014 edition (since tracks add over the season): - The installer just tells "error, reverting" on vanilla W2k and aborts. Oh good. - A folder copy of the installed game from Xp to W2k tells "not a valid Win32 application" and aborts. The latter attempt is something that ran fine up to the 2013 season. I installed the game on one computer (including Xp), let it connect to its home website for updates, left all default tunings including the lowest screen resolution, and zipped the folder of the installed game. Then I could unzip it to an other machine, with different screen resolutions, graphics card, processor, W2k, and it ran just fine without an Internet access. I haven't tried copy-paste of v2014 on a separate Xp, but with vanilla W2k (no KernelEx) it failed for me. Did you try? Suggestions? Thank you!

Does your computer (acer aspire one aoa150) really have an Atom processor, something like 1GB ram, and so on? Then I see no excellent reason to run Nt4 on it! Xp would fit the hardware, and so would my preferred W2k - possibly with limited tweaking but with full performance. These two Win (possibly more recent ones, I ignore that) would be fast on this computer and exploit its full performance, with a limited effort. (All?) present applications run on Xp, including antivirus and firewall, decently recent browsers as well, certainly not on Nt4 - that's the choice between Internet or not. Perhaps maybe Windows ME could run on this hardware with a reasonable effort, and it would start faster and be snappier than W2k or Xp, but: - Applications aren't written for Me presently. - Not necessarily all drivers available. Bye-bye to Ncq in disks access anyway. - Uses only 512MiB Ram by default. Turnarounds exist, need time investment. - Fat32 normally. Bye-bye to the safer Ntfs. Your hardware can run present applications (not the dumbest ones), so I'd really feel wasteful to exclude them because of an old OS. I do install Win 95b or Me, but on much older machines, which won't go on the Internet - things like Pentium 1 with 40MiB Ram. You find licenses for W2k and Xp over eCreek for very little money.

Additional interrogations, apart from not running on W2k: - Did you have success with CCleaner to empty Aviator's temporary files? I tried CCLeaner v4.12, presently the latest, which doesn't mention Aviator in its search list. - What is Aviator's list of safety certificates? It feels like North American certification entities are known. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, if it excludes ANSSI, whose key served to sign faked webpages made by a French tax administration.

Did you read message #8 before posting? Aviator runs on my Win Xp. Repeatedly, if you can read the present message, written thanks to Aviator.

I have tried to install it on W2k and the installer failed: "the wizard was interrupted before Aviator could be completely installed".Has someone else tried, please? On Xp, I presently use it to write this, so it does browse. Its default settings make sense. But it connects to Whitehat without being asked to (by default, can be adjusted). I find it difficult to make an opinion about its security: settings are fine, but what is in the modded code?

My OS are defragmented, that's why I shortly answered "not on my machine", or if you prefer, "that's not the cause". With an X25-E anyway (SLC SSD), as I put in the first message, that's not an issue. Register fragmentation? I thought the register was loaded completely in Ram at bootup. I already used registry defraggler, they made zero difference. More generally, I didn't expect answers like "defrag" to a real disappointment I have with Xp.

Before thinking at W2k, you might check how much Ram you have. Below 256MB it slows down significantly (this improves without antivirus nor firewall, that is if the machine is offline), and 512MB are much better for it. That's a heavy difference with W95b (which I ran on 8MB and improved with 40MB) and Nt4 (similar needs to W95), and also with Me which is fine on 128MB. The processor must be faster for W2k as well: a small PIII is slow with W2k but very fast With W95-98-Me-Nt4. W2k is very different from Me! If the machine is too small for W2k, the choice is more between Nt4 and Me, knowing that Nt4's Ntfs is safer, but anything else (dX9, Usb, driver management, installation, big disks...) is less archaic on Me. Six Sp, large Ram... This all results from Nt4 being a professional and server OS.

Hi Chris, W2k Pro accesses 4GB of Ram. Server editions access more but limit to about 4GB per task (or per application). I know no solution and strongly suspect that there can be none. The part between 4GB and 11Gb can at most serve as a faster paging file (with tricks). It all depends on if you applications require more than 3 or 4GB. Google Chrome doesn't run normally on W2k. There are tricks which didn't work on my W2k and destabilized my OS. If you're not seasoned with W2k, don't try. Use Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer - of the proper version ! More generally, tricks exist to run software not normally meant for W2k, but don't begin with them until you know this OS well. Important time investment, risk of instability. W2k is extremely stable, by far the best I had among W95-98-Me-2k-Xp. Firefox runs properly on it, but not the latest versions normally. Though, I can't tell about virtual machines. 2TB is the limit on W2k - though sectors larger than 512B may improve that; for sure, my W2k accepted 4kiB sectors. Also, with Intel Raid, I could split a bigger disk to look as several disks (not volumes! Volumes wouldn't improve) which were then used properly by W2k. Is there any processor that won't run on W2k? Some chipsets have no official driver, which is a worry for the disk host mainly - but the Xp drivers have been ported. There are tricks for the number of cores and hyperthreading - W2k Pro limits them to 2 normally, varied 2k Server accept more. You must be aware that fewer applications and drivers run on W2k as time passes, and some tuning (like disks >128GiB simply) may look archaic. Presently you'll find knowledgeable people here at Msfn, but is it worth learning it in 2014 if you didn't use it before? I stick to W2k because it's the one I know best, the best I have had up to now, and it's older than many governmental spying bugs introduced later. It's also more reactive than Xp (though not at bootup), but I'm not sure it's any faster than Seven for instance.