garcher{at}wdn.com wrote:
> Given W2K's nasty habit of trashing Boot Manager (BM) by overwriting the HD
> media descriptor in the MBR (unless SP2 is installed) maybe even as a VM
> image file (speculation- not tested), I'll resign myself to use W2K only on
> the stand-alone Fujitsu. A W2K install on the new box under a VM entails a
> messy use of a licensed upgrade version of W2K without SP's using my old
> Win95 full version licensed CD, and then download SP2 so I don't have to
> run DFsee after the image file install or after VM guest sessions to
> restore BM.
>
> (Random thought: Switching to XP or Vista for use as a guest under a VM is
> fraught with unknowns: What happens to XP/Vista after the 5th re-boot under
> a suspicious VM session that emmulates a pirated version of XP/Vista? It
> tries to call home to revalidate the registration. Being paranoid and
> protective of my hardware, I suspected SP3 for W2K would try the same thing
> and so never installed SP3, ending any use an unpatched W2K system online.
Hi George,

Please note that the current SP for W2K is SP4, which no longer trashes 
the IBM BM "Partition" [all 28 sectors because it used to mis-recognize 
it as FAT and attempted to "fix" it].

However on every one of its boots following _any_ partition 
manipulation, including re-creation in situ with same specs, it will 
still attempt to chkdsk JFS volumes which it identifies as "FAT", even 
when they may be 40 Gigabytes, or 10 times larger than largest possible 
FAT16 [64KB clusters under NT4.x], and when booted to the Desktop will 
still try to get one to format any HPFS volume, as it forgets what it 
was told when one removed the drive-letters from those the previous time 
it occurred!

Regards,
Mike

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