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Yeah sector is right name for it not cluster, these terms where allways a bit fuzzy for me.. i allways after some time forget where is difference. So this is another dead end. How these 2 TB+ unlockers from Gigabyte and other did the trick, its not definitelly through changing firmware and was for MBR disks. I have found something else if are in the mood to continue research: https://archive.org/details/paragon-gpt-loader-10.0.16.12944-8.0.1.2-driver-update There are 2 interesting things, 1) Reg file fix for xp with some magic values, without any description. 2) GPT loader v8.x - but its described as unofficial, maybe someone somewhere did some fixing.. PAE is not mentioned.

Ok, i used it without PAE back in the day, for sure.. But there is not just 1 PAE patch, but multiple flavours of it.. some may work with PAE and GPT loader fine. Also i wrote with Win2000, i got crash after GPT loader - not 8.x.x install, even without GPT disk connected. Im not aware of PAE patch for Windows 2000, it would be handy, i case of Win2000 im using only /PAE boot.ini switch for Advanced server version because DataCenter is problematic and advnaced server license is limited to 8 GB, datacenter is 32 GB.. PAE patches for WinXP+ are 64 GB or 128 GB. Thanks for testing, its allway good to know and test, dead ends too. Ok there seems to be and the way after all.. There is more than 1 variable.. Used PAE patch there is multiple flavours of it. Chipset / Sata controller drivers, could matter were already know that Intel AHCI is not go.. Its make boot bluescreen on WIndows 2000 even with extended kernel and without PAE and GPT loader 10 - not 2015, even with not GPT disk connected. There could be also disk cluster size dependency.. if there is hardcoded limti for 2TB and number of clusters, maybe using bigger cluster size could bypas it, and especially some external 2TB HDD could came with some clever preformating.. Back in the day, i was using Dybay version of PAE patch i my memory serves, or version from Rayer site.. https://web.archive.org/web/20191108052121/https://ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10547

Thanks, well its strange that system is keep pushing just update, if it would not supported ok. I quickly checked PCwelt article, but there is not much info about upgrading and reinstalling because of WIndows 10 version upgrading is not way for me, i would have to use of these half working PC to PC migration tools.. Second article make sense old unsupported solution trick.. Migrate to Virtual machine, set emulated disk as sormal sata disk make upgrade and pray, that after migration to USB it will able to find USB boot drivers again, it seems pretty straight forward. I have found some new logs, i will give one more try to some BCD rebuild experiment before i will maybe later try virtual migration.

Thx alot, my memory as usually , i forgot that this setting exists in XP. Through Display Propeties - Appearance, this different settings i already set font size to Very large, but it has not scale these fonts. And also as usually its effect of poor GUI, not intuitive design i would search this settings under Advanced->General->Display->Font .. under advanced i found search things like HW acceleration slider and refresh rate force, I will write down note about this settings and next i hope a will remember or find the note. I increased size from 96 dpi to 120 dpi (125%) ts much better and i can go up to 200% HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes - with some of these keys, i was able increase Explorer Status bar font size, but not this basic font. Well i used new resource hacker and Tahoma 8 to 12 as above and boot without Bluescreens, but this basic font was unchanged. Just some example which is meant by basic / shell font.. other text is scalling fine through Appearance settings, this is settings even without restart.. Original: Resized to 120: BTW for work in 640x480 without running proper draphics drivers, would be nice to actually decrease DPI to see more info on the screen, so request to scale it through registry / some dlls hacking. still make some sense, if someone would be able to do it.

I was able to extract Catalyst Control center installer from a few drivers packages- i simply used bruteforce 7zip extaction, structure vary per version.. and maybe even per sub version. Because as i tried the last drivers in some line, they could be actually newer than first driver in new line.. I mean 7.12 could be newer than 8.1, there could be also some different packaging because some newer driver had same package structure as older ones, but there was different structure in the middle of them.. Good new is that something is working and you can use quite old Catalyst Control center with much newer drivers - for my Radeon 3470, best worked have 11.7 drivers. Maybe are some Win 2k natives installer (maybe up to 9.8) which would work out of box and would be possible not installed video drivers or replace them letter i did not tried all combination. I looked into these: 6.5 - installer is in ACE directory installed correctly 6.20 I found Data in ATICC directory, but for some reason it complain about data.cab, which in place - i could somehow damage a package, i need to try it again. 7.12 - i found only a lot of CC parts sub installers, but not main installer 8.12 - i found only a lot of CC parts sub installers, but not main installer 9.9 CCC directory installed correctly 10.2 - CCC directory installed correctly 10.9 - i found only a lot of CC parts, but not main installer, main installer stuck on HW detection 11.X - - i found only a lot of CC parts, but not main installer, main installer stuck on HW detection Summary i found out that newer is not better, at least with my card: 10.2 - very little settings, just some monitor stuff 9.9 - Not native resolution GPU scaling available in comparison is 10.2 6.5 - Actually what i need 3D Graphics option tree settings available (3D Image quality, Antialiasing etc) and all above, maybe GPU scaling has some more limited option.. Good, news is if i installed something, i does not crashed. Im not sure if newer versions had in build some overclocking, but MSi afterburner 4.30 is running fine, maybe even newer will, i not tried it yet GUI drawers for overclocking seems active, i can set new GPU and VRAM speed without crash and GPU-Z 0.67 is confirming new clocks.

I have tried open Shell32 With Resource Hacker 3.4.0- find Tahoma, to lines under it i saw - 8, so i guessed font size, so change it to 12, click on compile script and saved result as shell32xx.dll.. and after i rebooted to different OS and changed dlls, but it ended with bluescreen rigth before login screen..

Its 18 years, but could you share these files? Or its some other way how to increase size basic XP fonts, in Windows explorer? Some total reskin etc? HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes->MS Shell Dlg and MS Shell Dlg 2 i have tried to change default Tahoma to another fonts, but change is not applied, or its still tiny.. on my 27 1440p, even 1600x900 is hardly readable as im using it on second left monitor from 110 cm distance.. Im force to use 1024x768 to keep all readable without hasle.

I made BlackWIngCat ATI/AMD drivers working for 3D in Windows 2000 with extended kernel, but they are only barebone drivers.. i would like to set some image quality settings. Here are details, you have to autotranslate it: https://win2k.org/blog/2009/09/30/571484/ BlackWingCat description mentioning Catalyst, but there are not details, im not sure if its possible get only standalone installer, or extract it from XP drivers etc, i have tried some wild kernel of his driver and XP package, but installer crashed, even installer with original driver crashed. Have tried ATI tool, its running but developement ended in 2006 and ATI try tools generate blue screen, right after install.

If im not work there is no 3D driver Virtualbox \ Vmware driver for NT and no port of SoftGPU.. maybe you may try to make SwiftShader, somehow, but above solutions are proven, this is wildwest.. Bears Windows driver is buggy even for 2D.

Depends on VM, if you have 86Box or KVM machine with working 3D - OpenGL, Direct3D, we are working om modern Direct3D and other DirectX functions and some kernel stuff etc and need some testers. I will write some annoucemenet once i fix my main machine after some Windows 10 update crash.

Windows 2000 with extended kernel and all new improvement are great user experience, well expect web browsing - we need Windows 2000 Superium port, i only missing a few other features. Most Windows XP, restore point and system restore, it saved my skin countless times and it would be really nice feature to add to Extended kernel, im really sure how much work would be needed and it could be somehow backported from Windows XP.. Or if there is 3rd party software which could do the same - track files chances on selected volume.. and use for it max give disk space, be able to rollback changes / snapshots from some boot cd. Im not sure if Microsoft was first company with this idea, probably not.

I have Win10 18h03 installed on USB-NVME, its much faster than any USB3 flashdisk which i have tried, even speedy ones, but they still keep have quite slow small files operations and probably problem with parallel file access.. System responsiveness its and operations are much faster. Problem is that, that i cant ugprade from 1803 version to 22h2.. by any ways, all checks seems ok, all logs setup longs no error, CBS.log ok, sfc fine.. and Windows update keep it pushing with every boot, redownloading and trying to install. I have tried also Media creating tool, but at the end of blue full screen installing mode, i get install failed messege (Small white message box - Instalation failed in case of using ISO) before reboot after 99% or.. machine is rebooting to continue with upgrade initialize to blue or violet screen, but its never happening.. like upgrade is was not scheduled.. Even Windows update is keeping asking for restart to finish upgrade - but again no upgrade is inicialized.. I have tried Minitool Windows update tool, but it seems to be only some new Frontend over Windows update.. and i did not found any other alternative tool to do the same.. I suspect, that problem is USB- or USB-install.. im not sure how upgrad works, if something has to be added in BCD file, or some preboot mode is incialized by other way.. to check it or force manually. I found that in Pather directory (C:\$WINDOWS.~BT) always full new full ~30 GB install ready to go, prepared.. no errors there, but its not applied.. I have tried to add "PatherDirectory"\ system32\winloadx.exe into BCD, its starting to boot, but after 21c error, so this probably not the right way how to start the ugprade.. I wonder if just rewrite all new install created by Windows update - files over original install would not be a solution, i have backups, im not exact process how upgrade is made, but its probably install to new directory and if install its successfull it rename old Windows directory to Windows.old and new one to Windows , os maybe i can do it manually. This upgrading process at least on my machines is allways nightmare, some MS scripts seems really not clever, hardcoded parsers with poor exception handling and messeging. I hope is not typical sniffing other disk problem.. because i have on machine physical M.2 - with Win10 + Linux - which is hassle to remove and could not be disabled in bios..and some data ntfs HDD. I event log system i see this, im not sure if its related: The WinRM service cannot migrate the listener with Address * and Transport HTTP. A listener that has the same Address and Transport configuration already exists. And this: SearchIndexer (11816,D,23) Windows: The version store for this instance (0) has reached its maximum size of 128Mb. It is likely that a long-running transaction is preventing cleanup of the version store and causing it to build up in size. Updates will be rejected until the long-running transaction has been completely committed or rolled back. Possible long-running transaction: SessionId: 0x00000253293910C0:2b3968fffffffc Update: I have tried Media creation method after while again and there is indeed some BCD hell error: BCD: BcdCopyObjectEx: Failed to enumerate source elements. Target: {5189b25c-5558-4bf2-bca4-289b11bd29e2} Flags: 0x4 Status: c0000034[gle=0x00000002] 2025-07-12 00:11:32, Error IBSLIB BCD: Failed to clone store. Status: c0000034[gle=0x00000002] 2025-07-12 00:11:32, Error IBSLIB BCD: BcdExportStore: Failed clone BCD to \??\C:\$WINDOWS.~BT\Sources\Rollback\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD. Status: c0000034[gle=0x00000002] MSconfig cant edit BCD entry just 1 line, BootICE could. It wasnt easy forme make booting installation from normal flashdisk to NVME and start boot loader, so i used multiple tools to try to generate bootable EFI entry and BCD, there is probably something non standard.

97I decide to give a shot GPT Loader with Windows 2000..- fully patched - Extended Kernel 3.1 but even without any GPT disk connected, reboot with and withou PAE always end with infamous 000*00x7B boot error.. Its on the Ivy Bridge machine with Intel 7x chipset in AHCI mode. Im using just Small 60 SSD with MBR, without loader its booting fine. I can confirm that Paragon GPT Loader Worked fine with Marwell chip controller in XP as normal data drive for Dropbox, Developement, Work, Games etc, on drive bigger than 2 TB (because otherwise i had no any other reason to use it, im not big fan of EFI) - 3 TB or 4 TB one big NTFS. Yeah i never worked with Intel chipsets im not sure about Asmedias. I also can say that i used nore than 2 TB of data, because im usually out of disk scane.. I had 3TB+ unlock software from Gigabyte installed too, maybe it matters.. At the time there were such programs for reason, maybe some bug in Windows XP etc. https://www.gigabyte.com/fileupload/us/microsite/276/3tb.html on this list are only some chipsets, but when will search utilities for more modern MBs / chipset perphas you will find it too, i dont remember which chipset i had at the time maybe Z97 or some AMD Strange Triple core CPU supporting one.. It claims this: Enables 32bit Systems without Hybrid EFI Technology to Utilize Unallocated Space on New 3TB+ HDDs. maybe that that mumbo / jumbo that you need. im not sure what EFI hybrid technology - non EFI / MBR? If its MBR it will not help with GPT disks just with bigger MBR ones, but only reason why i needed GPT was bigger than 2 TB disks support.. Win10 / Linux are still fine with no EFI, im not sure about Hackinstosh, but Clover bootloader claims to be tool to run EFI on non EFI systems, seems to be still active (some file was yesterday updated) it should be also ok: https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader But a ew years ago Tonymac moved to different bootloader OpenCore.. Marwell controller where integrated on some mainboards, but also had PCI-E varaints, i was allways quite happy with them, that i can say about Asmedia, SIL and others, i only vaguely remember that there was some hassle with them and Linux. I bought Paragon long time ago, im not sure if was using older version than probably -Paragon-197-PEE_WinInstallSNU_10.0.16.12944_000, its really shame that they integrated newer version in HDD Manager 15 and their support or online account not even anounced it I paid small fortune for their products and contacted support about GPT loader issues, multiple times.. Version number seems really strange if.. 8 > 10.. is newer / better. Check this is seems to be alternative solution, its linked in links posted in this thread, but it seems that nobody dug into it:, its long and no pictures or video https://article-pchome-net.translate.goog/content-1324506-all.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=es&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Well now 12 years later, virtually every machine has more than 8 GB of Ram.. and to use it, you would need DataCenter OP version which has its own sort of the problems or increase hack to support memory. There hack for WinXP to Win10 32 bit to use 128 GB, but it seems that nobody bother to port it for Win2000, when i tried 128 GB universal how its for WIndows XP/2003 and above.

I wonder its possible to add project on GIthub more people be able to learn and contribute?