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Still dont know how it managed to work, but my buddy had an XP box that he was gonna use for our lan party, but it went sideways. The only thing i had was a win
by CableNinja 3y ago
Still dont know how it managed to work, but my buddy had an XP box that he was gonna use for our lan party, but it went sideways. The only thing i had was a win 2k cd. We repaired using the 2k cd, got the system up, in a really fubar hybrid mode, where parts of the system acted like XP, and other parts acted like 2k
- exikyut 3y agoDo you remember what parts acted like what?
- CableNinja 3y agoNot entirely. I do remember that the login screen and control panel became 2k like
- bombcar 3y agoThe dirty secret was windows XP was just a skinned Win2k and the components were very similar. I remember resisting XP for awhile and instead editing INF files so drivers would install on 2k for me.
- CableNinja 3y agoYeah, i suspect thats the only reason it worked. If it had been ME and 2k it probably wouldve burst into flames
- Shorel 3y agoI think it was more like: XP was Win2K with added DirectX and the skins. And yes, they started as the same kernel and drivers.
- ogurechny 3y agoAh, yes, the manual repairs in the primitive recovery console. Look for .SYS and .DLL files with suspicious dates (unlike the others), overwrite them with EXPAND'ed originals from the setup disk, try booting the system. Had to do it recently on an old XP system after testing early 2000s tool that had no idea service packs existed, and “updated” system files.