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Resurrecting a Legacy X86 PC..
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<blockquote data-quote="Vipersan" data-source="post: 1018789" data-attributes="member: 325666"><p>Thought I'd done ..but sadly no ..</p><p>Win2000 is the issue ..</p><p>Based on NT ...but supporting NTFS ..</p><p>Not that this is the reason ..</p><p>I simply cannot install a third party bootloader ..as this sits in the MBR space ...but then ..so does part of Win2000s boot config ...</p><p>Thus one overwrites t'other ...and they simply can't coexist ..</p><p>I'm now looking at making win xp the first bootable OS on this drive ...and using its built in abilty to multiboot the other operating systems ..</p><p>This I believe can be done but does involve copying and storing away a couple of XP files after the install ..</p><p>Installing Win2000 which will overwrite XPs boot loading files ...then restoring them from the stored safe location...PLUS ..WIN2000 is hard wired in such a way that ITS partition/OS cannot be loacted more than 137Gb from the hard drives MBR partition ..</p><p>Whoever thought this was a good idea was a p!llock ...but I spose ..back then hard drive sizes where such that only rich folk could own drives big enough to be an issue..</p><p>This may work ..but then again ..????</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vipersan, post: 1018789, member: 325666"] Thought I'd done ..but sadly no .. Win2000 is the issue .. Based on NT ...but supporting NTFS .. Not that this is the reason .. I simply cannot install a third party bootloader ..as this sits in the MBR space ...but then ..so does part of Win2000s boot config ... Thus one overwrites t'other ...and they simply can't coexist .. I'm now looking at making win xp the first bootable OS on this drive ...and using its built in abilty to multiboot the other operating systems .. This I believe can be done but does involve copying and storing away a couple of XP files after the install .. Installing Win2000 which will overwrite XPs boot loading files ...then restoring them from the stored safe location...PLUS ..WIN2000 is hard wired in such a way that ITS partition/OS cannot be loacted more than 137Gb from the hard drives MBR partition .. Whoever thought this was a good idea was a p!llock ...but I spose ..back then hard drive sizes where such that only rich folk could own drives big enough to be an issue.. This may work ..but then again ..???? [/QUOTE]
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