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Installing windows 2000 in VPC....
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Syracuse
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So Ive done a search and lot of people seem to have problems with this. I had an install of windows 98, but I think it has become corrupted or something because it boots up, says it has a problem, and then VPC crashes. I thought it would be a good time to upgrade to 2000. I could not get it to boot off the damn windows 2000 CD, but eventually I tried starting up my old working 98 install and it booted off the CD. However, now Im greeted with a splash screen saying I need to insert windows 2000 disk #2 into drive a:. Isnt that a floppy? I just have the one CD...HELP
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Liverpool, UK
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just put the w2k disc in the machine, let it mount, and then start a new VPC session. it should just work.
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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Originally posted by philzilla:
just put the w2k disc in the machine, let it mount, and then start a new VPC session. it should just work.
yea but it doesnt...
"Please insert the disk windows 2000 professional setup disk 2 into drive a:"
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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OK, so Ive gotten it to boot up off a virtual floppy image of win ME, and in dos naviated to the setup.exe file. But when I select it it says that it can't run that program in dos.. 
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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So I figured out how to navigate into makeboot, make virtual floppy disks in VPC, create the boot disks, run off of those, and now Im installing win2k. That seemed unecessarily complicated...
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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So after installing about 80 critical updates, Windows 2000 is up and running. I must say, it is TONS faster then win 98 SE was for me. The only reason I use VPC is to play Party Poker, and now it plays just as fast as it does on a PC. I'm quite impressed.
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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Originally posted by Weezer:
So after installing about 80 critical updates, Windows 2000 is up and running. I must say, it is TONS faster then win 98 SE was for me. The only reason I use VPC is to play Party Poker, and now it plays just as fast as it does on a PC. I'm quite impressed.
You went through all of this and downloaded and installed 80 critical software updates, just to play Party Poker?! Hmmm... guess I should have a look at this then, it must be quite extraordinarily good, and addictive 
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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Originally posted by workerbee:
You went through all of this and downloaded and installed 80 critical software updates, just to play Party Poker?! Hmmm... guess I should have a look at this then, it must be quite extraordinarily good, and addictive
Hah, well I play with real money, and I am currently up around $700, so the extra speed is worth it to me  I've started playing higher stakes games so I can get up to 2,000 faster and get that 23 inch cinema display. If you know what you are doing, there is a lot of money to be made in online poker.
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