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Does anyone know if this method will work with the Extended Kernel? I take it that it will, but just want to make sure.

I have an Acer Aspire A315-21 with AMD Radeon R4 98E4 Stoney graphics card. Windows Vista can be installed, but graphics do not install. The graphics card has support for 7, 8.1, and 10. Would this method work in getting the graphics driver (and subsequently Aero) working under Vista? I will attach the 7355312.inf (NOTE: There is a 6.0 section at the very bottom that is blank. Filling this in with the graphics card info from the Windows 7 section and manually installing the file with Have Disk does not work) C7355312.inf

I tried to run Windows Media Player 12 (extracted from Program Files from a Windows 7 installation I am using) and got this error to pop up after running setup_wm.exe: The procedure entry point SetCurrentProcessExplicitAppUserModelID could not be located in the dynamic link library SHELL32.dll. And I did open each exe file in CFF Explorer and changed all three instances of 6.1 to 6.0. After closing the error box, it then tells me that Media Player has stopped working.

He's probably really busy right now. I'm waiting for Windows 7+ drivers to work with this. I have an Acer Aspire A315-21-63F1 with AMD Radeon R4 Graphics (which does support 7 and 8.1 in addition to 10).

AMD Radeon R4 works with Windows Vista. I got it successfully installed on my Acer Aspire A315-21 by plugging in the Vista USB to a 2.0 port. Can't seem to get the Windows 7 Radeon R4 graphics driver working under Vista. It does have an empty 6.0 section at the bottom if anyone wants to try and get them working. Vista also works on my HP-f233wm. Had to install it through CD drive though USB was functional after the install was finished thanks to a generic USB driver someone built for it. This did not suffer the bug that affects Haswell and later. This looks like it uses an Intel Cherry Hill Celeron N3050 processor. Again, no clue on how to get the Intel Graphics working for this processor under Vista. 7 and later work just fine. If anyone wants to try it, be my guest. I should note that if the laptop comes with Realtek Ethernet, there are still Vista drivers for it if you google Realtek insert driver name here Ethernet.

Sorry for the triple post, but does anyone have a Windows 2000 driver for this: nVidia Quadro FX370M, Quadro NVS 160M, Quadro NVS160M, Quadro FX 770M, v.6.14.11.7607, A01. This one supports XP, but it does not work with 2000 and I can't seem to fine one that works with 2000. Thanks in advanced for your guys' help.

Alright. I rid of the BSOD using the driver you linked to within your reply. 2000 is currently formatting the drive. Will report back later when done. EDIT: I got it successfully installed and booted to the desktop. That driver did the trick! Thanks for your help!

I believe it is Inaccessible Boot Device or something similar. I'll integrate this into the 2000 disc and see if it works. If it still produces that BSOD, I'll share exactly what it says.

Introduction To start it off, here are my laptop's specs (which will also be the focal point of this thread): Acer Aspire R3-131T, Intel Celeron N3060 processor with Cherry Hill (iCHVGM) graphics (supports Windows 7), 32GB eMMC (SSD-Based?) drive, and touchscreen support. Came with Windows 10 when I bought this in 2017. Anyways, this thread is intended to research on how to get eMMC drives to be recognized by Windows 7. If one goes to the Acer driver page for this laptop, https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/support-product/6074?b=1 , you will see it has support for Windows 8.1 and 10. When I bought this laptop in 2017, it came with Windows 10, but I uninstalled that and successfully put 8.1 on it, suggesting there is a generic eMMC driver within 8.1. Indeed there is. This appears it was also present in Windows 8 too, and if you look here, https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_8_build_8056_(fbl_grfx_dev1) , you'll see it was introduced quite early in 8's development. Windows 8 Build 8056 is currently the earliest known build to include generic eMMC drivers. It should also be noted that some laptop's that come with an eMMC drive may not come with an HDD or even the SATA connector for such a drive. Some models of the Aspire R3-131T come with an HDD slot as well, but mine does not. Why won't Windows 7 install to an eMMC drive? Windows 7 does not include a generic eMMC driver, and it is unlikely there is a Windows 7 driver for it. If you try and install it, Windows Installer will complain that it can't detect the drive and to install a driver for it by loading it through something like a USB. Simply popping in a Windows 8.1 USB and pointing the installer to the folder the driver is in will not work due to it being "locked" to 8.1. How do we get Windows 7 to install to an eMMC drive? We would need to "unlock" and backport the generic driver from Windows 8/8.1 to Windows 7. If one looks at the driver details for the MMC Memory Card under Disk Drives in Device Manager, it will report as being dated on 6/21/2006 (at least on Build 8056). This would indicate that the driver has been present since Windows Vista and is in 7, but we all know that to be false. How do we backport the driver? I'll be the first to admit that I don't have a deep knowledge of drivers. I do know enough to be able to modify driver inf files to add in processors, but not enough to perform a full scale backport of one. Looking at the properties of the drive in Windows 8 Build 8056, Windows appears to treat it like an SD Card. Indeed, this is confirmed by going into Computer and seeing the SD Card icon next to the driver. Looking at the other details, the driver's inf name is disk.inf. The file and any others will be included so they can be studied (if sharing these files is not allowed, please do let me know so I can remove them). Conclusion So from everything that I have gathered about these drives is that they appear to be some sort of internal, soldered on SD Card (at least in my case) or at least treated like one. I believe that the drivers for these drives can be backported to Windows 7, however, there may be an issue with unsigned drivers (since Windows Installer will most likely refuse the driver since it is unsigned). This, however, can most likely be solved by using the installation and driver integrating method found within this thread: In the gist of things, this method involves installing Windows 7 to the drive via command prompt and diskpart and then using DISM to integrate the eMMC drivers (/forceunsigned will be needed). This method revolves around UEFI and you will lose things that would result in the graphics falling back to the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter such as Blue Screen of Death's and Safe Mode (those will still be accessible and usable, however, you would just have a blank, black screen). If people got Windows 8's generic USB 3.0 "unlocked" and backported then I believe it is possible to "unlock" and backport 8's generic eMMC driver to 7. disk.sys disk.inf disk.PNF

Does anyone know if it's possible to install Windows 2000 to a Dell Latitude E6400? It appears this laptop is from 2010 and supports XP, Vista, and 7. It also has a 64 bit processor. I've tried to install it, but get a BSOD, even with F7 method. Any help is greatly appreciated!

I tested this with a Windows 7 laptop that I had and it worked successfully. Only problem is that it installed Windows 7 Home Basic despite it being an Ultimate ISO that was used. Also, there is a part mentioning a cert1 and cert2 file. If your graphics driver features your processor in it already (I.E. You did not have to edit the inf file), then you do not need the cert1 and cert2 files. You can just skip injecting those and inject your graphics driver. If you do have to modify the inf, than those will be needed.

Solved: I solved the problem using the guide from this thread: This guide was not made by me, but rather bloodhandsv over at Notebook Review. I am just sharing it for other people who may not have known this existed.

Most computers made from 2010, especially those after Windows 8's release come with UEFI firmware, however, those also have the legacy BIOS option, which is what many people set the BIOS to when trying to set up Windows 7 on modern computers, but what if your BIOS does not have a legacy option? Newer Class 3 UEFI BIOS does not have a legacy mode and you'll notice that if you try and run the Windows 7 installation USB (after creating it in something like Rufus with UEFI/GPT options selected), it will freeze on the "Starting Windows" animation and all you'll most likely see are just four dots instead of the fully formed Windows logo. How do we overcome this issue? What is the cause? Does my media creation tool such as Rufus not properly handle the UEFI/GPT options? Overcoming the issue is as simple (or complex) as adding in a driver to the Windows 7 media. The problem does not lie with your media creation tool, but rather a quirk in one of Windows 7's Basic driver. The cause of this freezing issue has to do with the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter. This driver and UEFI do not get along, and so to get UEFI to work, you have to integrate your graphics driver into the media using something like DISM (you may need a Windows 10 installation for it). If your graphics hardware supports 7 out of the box and your graphics card is in the inf file, then no modding is needed and you can just integrate it to the media, after which you can build it up using Rufus. Since you will most likely be installing Windows 7 to a modern processor, some inf modding is required. Since modding the files unsigns the driver and Windows installer doesn't like that, we will have to resign them. Luckily, there is a guide that shows how to do this. This guide comes courtesy of bloodhandsv over at Notebook Review. This guide is written for the Acer Spin 5 and Intel Graphics, but can be applied to your hardware.

Ah. I was trying to get it to work with UEFI so I could then install 8.1 and 10 in that mode as well.

It is! The pictures below show my specs. I will do so. I have a laptop from 2013 that has UEFI boot (and secure boot too I believe), but shipped with Windows 7 (UEFI was disabled though) Interesting. This laptop does support both (how I got it working in the first place). You have a guide or know of one for how to modify the bootloader? Also, if it doesn't work with UEFI, why does Rufus select it automatically when I prepare it.

Hi! I created a Windows 7 installation media in UEFI mode using Rufus with the intent to install it on an Acer Aspire A315-21 from 2019, but when I booted up the disk, it did the "Starting Windows" animation, but then froze after the Windows logo was formed. This media did not have USB 3.0 drivers slipstreamed as this laptop also came with USB 2.0 ports in addition to 3.0 (and those 2.0 ports do work with 7's setup). The hardware is AMD Radeon R4 Graphics, AMD A6 Processor(?) and AMD USB 2.0 and 3.0,, all of which supports Windows 7. In the BIOS, I disabled Secure Boot (by setting a supervisor password from the BIOS. UEFI was still enabled obviously), but left everything else except for supervisor password untouched. Does anyone have a fix for this freezing problem? I can boot from the USB using the 2.0 ports without any need for 3.0 drivers from what I can tell, but it freezes after the "Starting Windows" animation plays and the Windows logo is complete and shown. Any help is greatly appreciated here! Solved: I solved the problem using the guide from this thread: This guide was not made by me, but rather bloodhandsv over at Notebook Review. I am just sharing it for other people who may not have known this existed.

Got Windows 2000 updated as well as Extended Kernel and Core installed. Only problem is I can't seem to get Intel Graphics for the Sandy Bridge processor to work. Anyone here know of a solution?

Are they all the updates released from SP4's release to the OS' end of life in 2010? If so, please do share! I need this machine fully up to date before I can install the Extended Kernel/Core, after which I will try to use the Sandy Bridge XP drivers on this. I will keep searching for a wireless/ethernet driver. If I find one that works, I'll let you know.

Thanks for this! Only problem is I don't have a valid Ethernet or Wireless driver yet as this is on real hardware, an Acer Aspire E1-531 with Sandy Bridge and Intel Pentium B960 to be exact. I'm gonna look and see if I can find either an Ethernet or Wireless driver, but I am open to your guys help too! I have Broadcom Ethernet and Atheros AR5B125 Wireless (which I can couple with Boingo Wireless Connection Manager). USB 2.0 is presently broken (due to a bug that 2000 has with USB 2.0 on hardware such as Sandy Bridge) so a wireless adapter is out of the question unless someone can help me get that working.

Does anyone know how I fully update Windows 2000 now that Windows Update is dead for it? Want to install the 2000 Extended Kernel, but need to update the machine first. Thanks in advanced for your help!

I have an Acer Aspire E1-531 with Sandy Bridge and Intel Pentium B960 CPU. I have installed Windows 2000 to it, but USB 2.0 is not working, forcing me to have to go into Linux just to copy something over (and I had to do this once to delete USBhub20.sys). How do I get USB 2.0 working?

You could try the F7 trick. If that doesn't work, @blackwingcat made a SATA driver that you can insert with the F6 option, or you can inject it into the ISO with something like nlite. That option is recommended as you wouldn't need to use a USB Floppy Drive for it (and those along with the associated disks would be hard to find outside of some rando selling one). You will also most likely get a BSOD relating to USBhub20.sys. Using Rufus to prepare a Linux USB and then booting directly to it from the USB, you can find the W2k drive, point to the USBhub20.sys, back it up to a different USB, and then delete it. This will allow W2K to boot. To get USB working, you need to install it manually (I mentioned this above), but am not sure on how to do that. Hopefully someone has a fix for your problem as well as mine.

First things first, here are my computer specs: Acer Aspire E1-531 from 2013 Sandy Bridge Intel Pentium with B960 2.20GHz CPU (if this is not a part of Sandy Bridge, please let me know) and 64 bit processor 8GB of Ram with Physical Address Extension (Just copying what the My Computer Properties show. Only 2.65 GB is visible in XP, and most likely in 2000 as well) Dual-boot of Windows 2000 (incomplete) and Windows XP (complete with drivers such as Intel Graphics and Wireless internet. Posting from it now. Also using it as it to copy files to the Windows 2000 partition). Qualcomm Atheros AR5B125 Wireless Internet Adapter (built-in). If you need any more specs, please do let me know and I can grab them for you guys. Now that is out of the way, here's what is going on. I successfully set up a dual-boot of Windows 2000 and Windows XP. For the installation of 2000, I had to mash the F7 key upon setup starting in order to proceed. When it was finished, it blue screened with a USBhub20.sys error. Loading up Linux straight from the USB and deleting that file allowed the OS to boot, but without USB support. I then setup Windows XP, with that drive being the same as the 2000 drive. My questions are: 1. When I was choosing the partition size for Windows 2000, it only showed 137GB. How do I make 2000 see more? I have googled and seen that there is some sort of registry trick that is needed. What is the stuff that I need to merge into the registry? After I apply the trick, would I just be able to use partition magic (or wizard) to expand the partition size (I want it to be around 250GB and equal with Windows XP, which will also be made bigger so 2000 and it are equal sizes)? 2. How do I get the USB ports working in 2000? Everything I have seen is that I need to manually install a driver or something for it, but am not really sure what they mean by that. Where do I find this installation file? And do I put USBhub20.sys back into the WINNT folder afterwards? 3. How do I get Windows 2000 and XP to see the full 8GB of RAM? I have seen a PAE hack is involved here, but am unsure of how to do that. 4. Since Windows Update is dead for 2000, how do I go about fully updating it for the Extended Kernel and Extended Core 16a (or whatever that Extended Kernel complement is called)? I do have a fully up to date 2000 machine on a different laptop, but that was done with Windows Update right before it went down. 5. And lastly, how do I get drivers such as Intel Sandy Bridge graphics and Qualcomm Athers AR5B125 working under 2000? Everything I have seen involves using Extended Core 16a(?) in conjunction with Extended Kernel, but I tried that on a prior 2000 install on this machine (this was made before I wiped it and dual-booted it with XP), and trying to install the graphics and wireless drivers didn't work. Manual install via Have Disk didn't work or in the case of the graphics exe, would tell me that a file didn't have an entry point called GetSystemWow64, leading me to believe I didn't fully update the machine properly. So sorry for these questions, but I really want to try and run Windows 2000 from this laptop and I will take any solutions you guys have, especially @blackwingcat's. I know XP works. I have it fully updated in terms of drivers; graphics, wireless internet, the works (I used Driver Booster to help me. It really simplified the process so I wasn't having to hunt all over Google for the XP drivers), and am using it as I type this. I know BWC has gotten Windows XP drivers to work, so I am confident 2000 will work here with a bit of tinkering. Again, any solution you guys have will be greatly appreciated! :)

I tried the Windows XP driver, but I keep getting an Entry Point Not Found message when trying to load the Sandy Bridge driver. It tells me that the procedure entry point GetSystemWow64 cannot be found in ntdll or something similar. Trying to manually install the driver through the .inf file appears to work, but after reboot, device manager has error 31 (cannot load the driver files). Maybe I didn't update Windows 2000 properly? How do I do that now that Windows Update is dead? I did find an iso file that had updates within a YouTube video that I tried, but am not sure of it. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Never mind. Found them!