How to get a internet connection on WINDOWS 2000?

[Greenslade]

I got the 7zip


See photo Local area connection status says it is connected .The tiny screens are mostly on black,occasionally they turn blue.I can say that card is working Have to test the other one ,the seller did say they were working.

Not for nothin, but in my initial Disk Commander + WinPE days are at least 20 years behind me and I jumped ship from 2000 to XP for a reason.
I may not be able to remember those specific reasons but do recall PeaZIP and 7-Zip misbehaving under Win2K/XP so badly that I opted for IZArc.
Normal moding had me main WinRAR like a champ but it didn't appear to have 7z support, which wasn't a real problem until much later.
Extracting drivers involves opening the archive. It's probably not the Windows default option.

Yes that,s what i have learned doing this extracting drives to the archive.

 

[ShiBDiB]

When i put the file for the drivers on a stick it would not let me open it,It wanted to format the drive.

What format is the drive? NTFS "should" work with windows 2000, but you might have better luck with FAT32

 

[Greenslade]

What format is the drive? NTFS "should" work with windows 2000, but you might have better luck with FAT32

ME done it as Fat 32 the USB stick was 64gb.

 

[DaemonForce]

What version is your Win2K and how was the drive formatted?
Exfat doesn't really work well on these older builds and NTFS was iffy from the start.
There was a time I learned you cannot dual boot WinNT and Win2K on the same volume. It just won't work.
Win2K silently "upgrades" the NTFS partition to a newer version, making WinNT inaccessible.
Fat32 is just as wasteful then as it is today but doesn't seem to have issues until you go as far back as Win95.
I would use a cheap disposable chipdisk for this job.

 

[Dr. Dro]

I know people who are still using Win 7 they would not know what patching is all about.

But you know better and you won't be doing that utterly irresponsible thing, right?

ME done it as Fat 32 the USB stick was 64gb.

Windows will refuse to format a FAT32 drive that large. Use guiformat as a workaround. Download it here:

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What version is your Win2K and how was the drive formatted?
Exfat doesn't really work well on these older builds and NTFS was iffy from the start.
There was a time I learned you cannot dual boot WinNT and Win2K on the same volume. It just won't work.
Win2K silently "upgrades" the NTFS partition to a newer version, making WinNT inaccessible.
Fat32 is just as wasteful then as it is today but doesn't seem to have issues until you go as far back as Win95.
I would use a cheap disposable chipdisk for this job.

ExFAT won't work with 2000 at all, though? But dual-booting Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 should be possible as long as you keep partitions separate. Running multiple versions of Windows from a single partition hasn't been a thing since the DOS days, since Windows itself used to be an MS-DOS application to a certain extent.

 

[DaemonForce]

ExFAT won't work with 2000 at all, though?

Yeah. I don't recall having a solution for Win2K and Exfat.
Others have tried getting it to work but I haven't cared enough to work on it.
WinXP in a much later update (KB955704?) was the first success to make it happen.
Here's the thing. I was able to take Longhorn 4074's File Based Write Filter driver and hack it back into early XP WinPE to get writable scratch space on CDFS.
Very much behaves like Knoppix and it was possible to set the space much higher than 32MB but technically none of that was supposed to work like at all.
It may be possible to rip the WinXP Exfat driver and force it into Win2K but I'm not really interested enough in that idea to try it.
There's a long enough programming gap between Win2K and late WinXP that I would not have very much confidence in that.

 

[Wirko]

Windows will refuse to format a FAT32 drive that large.

Maybe even refuse to recognise it. I'd suggest the OP to try to find an older, smaller USB stick for better compatibility. In 1999, "64 GB" meant almost the same as "∞ GB".

 

[Dr. Dro]

Maybe even refuse to recognise it. I'd suggest the OP to try to find an older, smaller USB stick for better compatibility. In 1999, "64 GB" meant almost the same as "∞ GB".

It should work fine, but this limitation remains in the OS today, Windows itself won't format the drive. FAT32 volumes can be up to 2 TB in size, but the FATs will be very large, and the drive will take a long time to mount as well as consume a lot of RAM because the FATs are so large. It's not an optimal format.

 

[Greenslade]

But you know better and you won't be doing that utterly irresponsible thing, right?



Windows will refuse to format a FAT32 drive that large. Use guiformat as a workaround. Download it here:

Ridgecrop Consultants Ltd

Ridgecrop Consultants Ltd - high quality IT consultancy services

ridgecrop.co.uk

ExFAT won't work with 2000 at all, though? But dual-booting Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 should be possible as long as you keep partitions separate. Running multiple versions of Windows from a single partition hasn't been a thing since the DOS days, since Windows itself used to be an MS-DOS application to a certain extent.

I don,t use win7 ,i was taking about someone i know who uses it as a daily drive I tried to tell him it was a silly idea but he would not listen.ME did it to fat32, i have 2000 on another CF card.