Microsoft released two versions of the Windows 2000 SP4 Update Rollup 1 package, one which can cause machines using SCSI to blue screen on reboot, and one which doesn’t.
Unfortunately they didn’t provide any easy way to tell the difference (like a version number on the installation executable). If you’re converting a machine [...]
I found that to get more than 128GB of disk available on Windows 2000 SP3 (not sure about XP) you have to make a registry change to enable access to the full disk. This is due to a limit in Windows 2000 and its default ATA disk support.
Save the text between the lines below into a file called BigDisk.reg, double-click the file and reboot. You [...]
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