Preparing Windows 2000

[datarelm]

Now I started thinking, I really like Windows 2000 Professional, but it isnt quite ready for a "Long Haul"

so to me anyways this is what i think needs to be done to equip it for use in the next 5 rough years lol.

>SP4 (A MUST)

>Unofficial SP5 (Good luck without it) (It includes, IE6, OE6, and about 400 hotfixes)

>Direct X 9.0c (bless you for hfslip tommyp)lol

>the 27 listed hotfixes for the year 2006

>A VERY GOOD FIREWALL AND ANTIVIRUS

I seem to have a solid plan here, any suggestions...

[At0mic]

Like all service packs, SP5 is cumulative so you don't need SP4. You do know that there's an SP5.1 which includes a lot of the 2006 hotfixes?

Edited January 24, 2007 by At0mic

[cluberti]

I'd say gathering as many current hotfixes and patches, as well as keeping a good (and updated) antivirus and antispyware application is crucial. Having a browser other than IE that will run on 2000 will probably be key as well, as IE6 will be as far as Windows 2000 can go.

[datarelm]

SP 5.1 needs sp4, if you dont slipstream sp4 first, it twould be bad...... and as for IE 6, it will be good for another 5+ years website wise, when it finally falls into incompatability firefox 2.0 would be the route

[TrikerII]

Here's a great website (extremely detailed) on making a slipstreamed version of Win2k Sp5. I'm sorry if this is a double-post.

http://www.vorck.com/2ksp5.html

However, I do have a question.... I have seen sites and answers to this, but they do not answer it for what I need. I have a 250 gig HDD that the BIOS sees and it works fine. However, I did a slipstream of Win2k Sp5 and the bootcd still only sees the first 137gigs of the HDD.

I guess I need to know what I'm doing wrong and is it even possible for a Win2k Sp4 (or higher) bootable CD to see a hdd larger than 137gigs?

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Sorry, found it at this location:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...mp;#entry590337

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Edited February 11, 2007 by TrikerII