Okay so we may not be doing 2k, were putting in a new hardrive. It all depends on how things go

So, uh. I went way to big for the hard drive. The max is 8 gigs; I went for 64.. so we may have to go back to the other hardrive :/

Wait it may work, we'll wait and see

Nope, we gotta put the old hardrive back in

Aaand the CD/DVD drive isn't working, so we can't even install 2k, this poor 600

Gonna try to figure out why it isn't working

Yep, the lasers aren't working @yestergearpc tried to look for a new CD drive but the one he found is the exact opposite of what we need.. this is depressing LMAO

So we have to get a new CD/DVD drive, how fun :|

Alternatively.. we could try to find an 18-20 gig hardrive which would work(that is what we are trying to do now)

Alright we're seeing if it boots now

IT BOOTS

WOOOOOOOOOOO

@PumpkinsLinked so many plot twists.

@RetroFunPL Indeed, so much is happening with this. Way to many errors

@PumpkinsLinked understood! Engineering is always like this 🙈

when it comes to hard drive sizes, i also wonder if the OS wasn't able to get past BIOS limits as it boots, but some voices in my head tell me it's probably more true for Linux, and the others that meddling with how Windows boots is not impossible but not the easy way either 🙈

@RetroFunPL Yeahhh, that's completely true from my knowledge lmaoo

@RetroFunPL @PumpkinsLinked Basically, I tried to toss in a 64gb IDE SSD I had laying around, and I think the BIOS limits to around 32gb. The DVD Slimbay drive is shot, so ordered a new one, but for now I'm going to image the original 6gb drive over to a 32 (or maybe 20gb) and expand the partition. The machine had XP SP3, and only had like 300 megs free with nothing else installed lol.

@RetroFunPL @PumpkinsLinked Turns out 64GB is just fine! Imaged it over to a 64, and it boots right up. It's all happy now.

@yestergearpc @RetroFunPL Yes, I am very happy about this >:]