Transferring Win2000 to a new computer

[Bob I]

You call verifying the color and price of a computer, research?!?!? I
suggest you sent it back, buy on of those $400 Dells with XP, and paint
that instead.

 

[John John]

You can install 32-bit operating systems on most 64-bit processors
(providing it is not an Itanium processor). You will not have 64-bit
processing but it will run just fine in 32-bit. This is done everyday
with 32-bit XP and Vista versions, many are installed on 64-bit
processors. No different for Windows 2000, it should run fine as long
as you have the proper drivers for the hardware, that (drivers) is
usually the stumbling block, not the 64-bit processors.

John

 

[Sid Elbow]

I should work. I recently learned how to create bootable USB flash
drives. They show up as C: ,, you could boot Windows from it …
endless possibilities.

*Bootable* USB device, I know for sure is a function of the BIOS.

Motherboard/BIOS's have always been a long way behind the rest of the
technology when it comes to boot options. Zip drives had been out for
years before they were included as a boot option in the BIOS. AFAIK no
versions of USB-1 were ever bootable. All of my system Motherboards are
a few years old now but all are USB-2 and none of them has a USB boot
option.

I imagine (haven't checked) that all recent motherboards would be OK though.

In the context of this thread though, *bootable* was not an issue - that
would be done from the install cd. The question was whether the install
program would recognise a USB drive to get drivers from once it got started.

 

[David Webb]

John,

Thanks for the clarification. From all the Google searches I did on this
subject, not one came up with a recommendation to marry Windows 2000 with this
processor, not even AMD's website.

I'd say that the best approach, for the OP, would be to install either Windows
XP Home, Pro, or MCE 2005, or s/he could simply wait for the Vista OS to mature.

 

[John John]

Well, the notebook version of the processor supports Windows 2000 so I
can only assume that the desktop version also would:

Operating System Compatibility
AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processors for notebook PCs are designed to
be compatible with Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition, Microsoft
Windows® XP Professional, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows 98, Windows
ME, Windows NT®, Windows 2000, Linux®, and other PC operating systems,
including Windows Vista™.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_9484_15184,00.html

As I said earlier, usually it isn't the processor that is the problem,
it's the rest of the hardware that the processor is mounted on. I agree
with you however that it would be better to use a newer operating system
on these new computers. It is getting increasingly difficult to get
older operating systems to properly install on new hardware.

John

 

[remove_]

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

 

[John John]

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