Intel® Desktop Board D945GCCR not compatible with windows 2000?

[rjisinspired]

Yep, lol. I know this now

I just ran pc inspector recovery on the recovered harddrive and was able to retrieve some files back!! I held off putting too much onto the disk so I was debating whether or not to run it or forget about it. I had some stuff that I could had gotten back anyway but I decided to run the recovery and wow.

I found out that with wave files it is best to use fat1 or fat2 recovery and the "no fat - consecutive" option otherwise the wave files don't recover right. This applies to VB6 project files it looks like. I was able to fully recover my rss project. If the project doesn't open I can at least copy the insides and make new files from them.

These recovery programs aren't needed all the time but when needed and you don't immediately start writing too much to the drive, these things can be a lifesaver.

I might need to include the win2k updates, merged, with the original win2k install. I don't know if I'll get the ACPI error again, doubt it since the harddrive I will try again with will be blank. I really was a die-hard 98 fan then went to 2000 April of this year because I was tired of seeing "This program is no longer compatible". I would prefer to keep 2000 but would go to XP as a last resort.

[rjisinspired]

Well, got the new western digital drive, formatted, and tried to cleanly put win2000 on and whamo, blue screen with the ACPI error again. I tried the skip and the manual method for choosing standard computer to override the ACPI issue but the computer just stops dead at the "Starting the windows 20000 setup" screen. I guess the XP last resort will be the only thing to try next.

Are the install files in XP different than win2000? I'm afraid of going through the expense of getting XP and having the same ACPI error blue screen deal.

Lastly, are there any dos-based partition program that will recognize an 80GB harddrive? I have tried fdisk and some other utility and it reads the drive as 74.36GB but only recognizes 10GB when going to the format process.

This is nuts. I didn't think putting this system together would be so difficult