[Media Player 10 on 2000]

Has anyone looked into hacking Media Player 10 onto 2000???

[Weird floppy drive problem with 2000.]

When I boot my PC, the floppy drive runs for several minutes, during which time I cannot access it with a disk inserted.

Also, whenever I plug in a USB storage device the floppy drive activates and runs for several minutes.

Windows will also seemingly randomly decide that a perfectly good floppy is "not formatted" and refuses to recognize ANY floppy disk until I either reboot or format a floppy, which will take a very long time.

I've tried many things like hunting though the Registry and zapping all references to A:\ , emptying the Documents menu, there's nothing in the Startup folder except the HotSync manager for my Handspring Visor (which of course was not installed from the floppy) and I forget how many other tips and tricks I've tried!

I run the latest version of Free AVG 7 antivirus (latest updates of course!) and I regularly scan with Spybot Search & Destroy 1.3 and AdAware SE 5.0. So I'm pretty @#%%@ing certain it's not "malware" or a virus having fun with the floppy.

I really don't want to "nuke and pave" and reinstall 2000 Pro (slipstreamed to SP4) because I'm on dialup and the post SP4 updates (plus the software I really use) will take me many hours to install. I do video editing on this thing and

reinstalling will muck up the drive letters etc, which means that I'll have to re-link all the media for every one of my Premiere projetcs.

The box is an ABIT KG7RAID board with an Athlon XP 2100+, 512meg PC2100 and five (5) IDE hard drives sized between 14gig and 233gig, plus a CD-RW and a DVD+-RW.

NIC- Realtek RTL 8139A

Sound- Soundblaster Live! 5.1 MP3+Gamer (with Live! drive connector but no drive)

Video- MSI GeForce4 Ti 4200

Modem USR 56K Voice Pro PnP external on serial port (also supports USB)

[Maximus-Decim Native USB Drivers]

Woohooooo! Thank you for this driver package!

I can finally use my KB Gear JamP3 MP3 player as two* USB Mass Storage removable disks with 98SE (just like it works on Me, 2000 and XP) without having to use that crappy MusicMatch Jukebox. (AKA MusicMunch Junkbox.)

*16meg built in RAM plus up to 64meg MMC removable.