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Different day, same 2 questions.
I asked this about 10 days ago, but although I received several replies, they were not relevant. Apparently no one here knew the answers to the questions in my original post, so I'll repeat it as a fresh thread. (Sigh. I should get used to having to do this, I suppose. A corollary to Murphy's Law, perhaps: Robbie's Law: "The first 2 or 3 attempts to ask a question in a Usenet newsgroup always result in nothing but irrelevant responses, if indeed anyone responds at all. Then they flame you and tell you to go away. Then, 3 or 4 weeks later, someone finally comes along who is able to provide a non-irrelevant response, provided that you keep reposting the original question in fresh threads.") With that in mind, I'll do a recap: Greetings, group. This is my first post to this group. I've been using Windows 2000 since shortly after it came out (late 2000). It's met all my needs until recently. But lately, I've been running into problems as Microsoft, software manufacturers, ISPs, etc are all phasing-out support for Win2K. SO, I'm considering moving to Windows-XP. I have two questions: Firstly, what are the options for obtaining XP install CDs these days? I've heard MS has stopped producing them. So we have to get them from places that still have them in stock? Or are there other options? Secondly, does XP require manually setting an entry in the registry in order to use HD partitions over 137GB, as with Win2K? Or is XP smart enough to automatically use the correct LBA type (24bit or 48bit) based on HD size? (I'm looking to avoid any repeats of an incident which occurred about a year ago in which thousands of files on my computer were destroyed because registry entry "EnableBigLBA" got reset to 0 on a clean reinstall of Win2K.) -- Cheers, Robbie Hatley lonewolf at well dot com www dot well dot com slant tilde lonewolf slant |
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