There is no connection to the Internet nor a modem on this old machine.
There is an old CD that won't read the media I've burned on my Vista
machine,
I thought I could use SafeMode and install SP4 from the c:\ drive of
the host machine but there is no setup.exe in the download I thought
was actually the correct release of SP4.
So I also need some help actually finding the correct release of
Windows 2000 SP4 too and help from somebody who can tell me some tips
and procedures to follow or provide a URL to a page please...
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If all else fails, put it in a multipart zip or rar file, transfer it in
bits then extract.
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So I put i386 and all of its contents on the c:\ drive and couldn't figure
out how to install as there was no setup.exe which is usually in the root of
i386. I tried running winnt.exe which was in i386 but it failed and asked
for WINNT32.
I remain stymied Sid.
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Transfer those two pieces individually to the target machine and use
winzip to extract the complete W2KSP4_EN.exe file from them. Then run it
as an executable.
W2KSP4_EN.EXE /x
to extract, then run \i386\update.exe to install
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I can't create a zip file from W2KSP4_EN.EXE because WinZip will only allow
me to extract that .exe and then make a zip archive from the extracted i386
folder which only then I can split which I've tried and learned it does not
solve this dilemma as once the split files are unzipped onto the target
device I need to use WinZip to rezip them and on;y then may I use WinZip to
make that newly zipped archive an executable. Once I made the executable
after trying this procedure the newly created .exe will only call WinZip
again and will not just run as an executable when called from the command
line.
I have another XP machine with Nero on it and I am obtaining CD-R media and
will try to burn W2KSP4_EN.EXE to that CD-R media at a slower rate of burn
which searching the web indicates is a common way to enable the old CD
drives to read what is on the media. I think this has been my mistake as I
used CD-RW media to burn the failed attempt and the old CD drives apparently
do not know what to do with a CD-RW disk; circumstances I have never needed
to cope with before.
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"Dave Patrick" <DSPa...@nospam.gmail.com> wrote in message
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http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/
Been using it for years.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/6/A/E6A04295-D2A8-40D0-A0C5-241BFECD095E/W2KSP4_EN.EXE
I'd forget about winzip. Just copy using usb thumb drive to machine and run
it or use a crossover cable to connect to the xp box.
> I can't create a zip file from W2KSP4_EN.EXE because WinZip will only
> allow me to extract that .exe and then make a zip archive from the
> extracted i386 folder which only then I can split which I've tried
You mean you can't:
- Open Winzip
- File > new archive
- (name new archive say OMG.zip)
- <Add-Window> pops up
- select file to add (W2KSP4_EN.EXE)
- before closing <Add-Window>, select "split" and select suitable split
point
- Winzip produces a split archive in small enough chunks to be
transferred to the other machine where you can then extract W2KSP4_EN.EXE
Are you saying that doesn't work?
In fact, I just tried it myself and it worked just fine. Like I said
originally "if all else fails" this is a relatively simple method of
getting the whole file across with your stated hardware (100 MB
Zip-drive) so that you can run the SP4 update automatically from the
executable without unpacking.
But as Dave says, if you can use a usb-flash drive of suitable capacity
then there's no point in using Winzip at all: just transfer the whole
file as-is. (I was unaware that you have usb drive access).
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I've never used it as in this thread, but it has worked fine in normal
files for years for me, too.
ms