Transferring Win2000 to a new computer

[Guest remove_@no.spam]

Re: Transferring Win2000 to a new computer

 

Preliminary report

 

I did it! I installed Windows 2000 on new HP a1730n.

 

Windows 2000 FLIES on the dual processor! Win2k loads in seconds,

shuts down instantly, it rocks!

 

Went straight to SP4, clean install.

 

On boot, Win2k OS uses only about 100Mb of memory, Vista uses 550Mb+

(more that half a gigabyte) and it's sluggish. So now I have 1.8 GB

for MY work.

 

RAW format photo processing is at least 2 times faster than with

Vista. That's what I bought my new put0r for, MY work not the friggin

OS.

 

Dual boot is broken, have to fix the boot manager,,, and hibernation

file conflict in the C:/D: partitions (2 hiberfil.sys) , possible

pagefile conflict too , will know as soon as I boot Vista again.

 

Details to follow

 

 

 

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:26:35 GMT, remove_@no.spam wrote:

>My new HP computer came with Vista Home Premium. I don't like Vista

>and I want to install Win2k from my old machine instead. After 6 years

>I don't know where my win2k installation CD is, but the CD is copied

>to my old hard disk and I do have my serial number. I used the serial

># when I had to reinstall win2k, and when I registered online at

>microsoft.com to get "automatic updates".

>

>I copied i386 from my old machine onto a USB flash drive and tried to

>install win2k from within Vista. I thought I would dual-boot for a

>while, but the boot loaders are conflicting and Vista is not allowing

>win2k to install. So I thought I would boot from floppy, fdisk the new

>machine and kill off Vista. But my new machine has no floppy drive, so

>. . . my question:

>

>How do I install win2k from my old machine onto the new one?

[Guest John John]

Re: Transferring Win2000 to a new computer

 

remove_@no.spam wrote:

> Preliminary report

>

> I did it! I installed Windows 2000 on new HP a1730n.

>

> Windows 2000 FLIES on the dual processor! Win2k loads in seconds,

> shuts down instantly, it rocks!

 

Yes it does, Windows 2000 rocks!

 

Look in your Device Manager for the processors.

 

John