Support for Windows XP is ending soon

Hi Tricky 300,

I am replying again because I did some reserch of my own. IF anyone wants to connect up a 3 TB or more drive, buy Seagate, their Disk Wizard for Windows has this software built into it. When you buy any SATA drive now, you either have to download it from their website for FREE, or ask for a CD of it as I did. Just follow and read all instructions until you understand what to do. Secondly, you won't have any trouble at all installing any new drive of theirs for 2 TB or less, because it is meant for Windows XP's Disk Managment to all the necessary setting it up and partiting of it. It is a bear IF you try to do with Windows 98, as then you have to boot from the CD the DOS version of it, then you have to let it install the DDO, (Direct Drive Overlay) to get past the 137 GB limitation, XP with SP1 or later will take care of that automaticly. I am doing this all the time swapping in and out hard disk drives. There is an exact way to do it, and follow that:

1. If you are replacing older or lesser drive and want to keep its data intact for later use, you have to un istall it from the Hardware Manager first so Windows wont screw up your NEW drive when it has data on it. Failure to heed this as a warning, will wipe out your new HDD's data. IF the old drive has a page file it surely will be on the new drive and where IT might be will wipe it out clean.
2. If you have a new HDD straight from the box, YOU have to initialize it first as to get Windows XP to recognize it. YOU do that only inside the Disk Manager, also to partition it and to format each partition!
3. ONCE youpartition and format each partition YOUR WAY, then you see it inside "My Computer", and you can use it to put your data on it as you see fit. Be wary not to exceed the 15% defrag limit, or have less than 15% free space on it. There is more to it, but this will get you started. You need to read the MMC's help screen to get its objectives. It is in Windows XP's "Help and Support".

    From Edmond The Software engineer!

PS:   I will stick to Seagate drives for all the money in the world because IF you investigate it, some of the drivers are from Texas Instruments, the ones who invented the IC chip in 1968, and do know what they are doing! You are taking a big chance with Murphy's Law IF you choose any other brand except Western Digital.  Maxor is Seagate!!! Western Digital HDDs overheat a lot unless it is inside the PC where it is meant to go. I do have several of WD Passport portable drives, and so far they are very good, The SES versions (newer) must have its drivers as they are on the drive itself and can go USB 3.0 if your PC has the card or port for it, Its core will be marked in blue as an ID for USB 3.0 (center). If it does not, it is backward comatible to USB 1.1, but the USB speed will be slower, consequenty, your copying to and from it will take longer. They all can be  attached internally INSIDE the case if the PCI to USB card has an internal USB port, some do and some don't. (Belkin. Staples, Zonnet PCI to 4 + 1 USB port cards DO)! (The + 1 means internal). That is how you can add extra USB ports to your PC.

Hello it seems like I can no longer create a new thread for windows xp so I will ask my question here, apologies in advance for posting  in wrong thread.

I am trying to boot from my windows xp cd.  i get so far and then the following error message appears:

i386\VGAOEM could not be loaded.  Error code 8192.  Any ideas how I can overcome this please?

Hello, shaz100

     You may still ask a Windows XP-specific question here in the Community Answer Forums, although

that capability may not seem available when looking at the Windows Category page.  The "Browse threads by Windows Version" list no longer includes Windows XP as one of the options, but it's still available by selecting "All Versions" from the "Browse by version" list:

Doing so will redirect the user to the "Apply Browsing Filters" page - where Type, Categories, Windows Version, and Windows Topics may be specified to narrow a search - and Windows XP may be selected from the Versions drop-down dialog:

    The procedure for asking a Windows XP-specific question (or, for that matter, any question) is similar. 

From the afore-mentioned Windows Category page, simply click the "Participate" Button in the Community toolbar, and select "Ask A Question" from the resultant drop-down dialog:

which will redirect to the "Create a new question or start a discussion" page, where a selection of filter drop-down dialogs for narrowing a question's "target" is available under the writepad box:

and once again the user may simply select Windows XP from the Windows Version drop-down.

     Because new questions will always come to the attention of either the Forum (Microsoft employee) or Community (Volunteer expert) Moderators, while discussion posts and postings to older threads, or those that don't specifically apply to one's question (such as this one) do not necessarily automatically come to the notice of the Moderators - or of the "Community Stars" who quite often provide some of the best answers to Community Member's questions, many of whom use the Community-provided tools to seek out such questions specifically so they can provide help - it's almost always best to start a new thread in a situation such as yours.  Since more information, tailored to the user's individual environment, can prove extremely useful to those trying to answer a user's question(s), I also recommend having a look at the Wiki article created by Wiki Author, Community Moderator, and MVP

ZigZag3143 (MS - MVP), "**Effective questions get help faster!!**", and the Microsoft Knowledge Base KB555375 article "Suggestions for asking a question on help forums", both of which can improve the response one receives to any given question. Hope this helps!

also to ad I created a what I call a nova nog algorythm this scans old updates changes the core date of that update and replaces it with an new 1 also incorporated a attachment to it that increases that updates security with known data from all malware locations and addresses them with an reverse malware code that locks out the malware from infecting it in other words making the patch impervious to attack

thats all you have to do microsoft to block all attacks make the software impervious to attack by creating a scan base applying it and keeping it up to date

I leaned that from Emsisoft how they design a prog that works is through trial and error use a malware database signature there are millions of them address the mware base core add a regulare update input and application of  LORE which is  LOCATION OPERATING ReSEQUENCE EDIT

use this and you dont need to keep upgrading every thing you can stay weith  1 operating system and be protected for eternity

iwent on to a site that I know that allows me to look at the core function of all operating systems and guess what was on the screen

this site is temp out of action due to MS removing win7 & 8 & *.1 due to maintainance

which in the short of it all means that they have found faults with the operating systems and they dont know what to do

I got the win8 package for trial download revers engineered that and found a whole host of problems the worst of which is networking it had major faults across the board failing on transfer data even a lockout that would prevet downloading and input from the user

thatis why I decided that I cant wait for the servers to go off because 2 weeks later all hells gona break loose the hacker is going to have a field day the security for xp was good to a point but the security for 7 8 8.1 well just watch this space

Hello Cameron,

My interpretation of your post is that you do not know for certain that this is a workaround for the limitations of XP and BIOS based hardware wrt 3TB drives?

Tricky