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Hey smokers, Druaga1 here and today we're going to be installing Windows 2000, on an SD card.
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Now you may be thinking, "You're an idiot!"
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Well, you'd be right!
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Running an OS off an SD card is tremendously slow.
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Especially when you have one like this, which is only 30 megabytes per second read and even less write.
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But we're going to do it anyway, just for the sake of I don't know.
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Now, we're not going to be using a USB adapter and this laptop doesn't even have an SD card reader, instead, we're going to be using this.
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This is a pretty generic $10 PATA or mini IDE adapter.
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That we'll be installing into this Gateway 200ARC.
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This is what it looks like in the adapter.
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Installation is pretty simple.
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So you may be wondering, who in the world is going to want to use this?
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Well, not too many people because it's going to be very very very slow.
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But, for me and this laptop, we go way back, and I don't want to see losing a hard drive take it out.
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And besides, it would be nice to have a quote on quote "Solid State" laptop.
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To carry around with me.
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Once we got this in, we'll be ready to go, and if we're lucky the 200ARC should recognize the SD card as a 32GB hard disk.
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So, as you can see here, our SD card adapter is show in the BIOS by name.
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And it does show up as 30 gigs.
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Alright, lets start rolling!
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Ok, so we're back, I've already pre-formatted the SD card because the Windows 2000 setup here does not like formatting SD cards.
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So let's keep the current file system intact, and hope that it can copy files to it.
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*Whew* Alright, we're rolling.
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Well I've tried to install Windows on an SD card before, and this initial file
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copy it takes a lot longer than what I'm used to when i install on regular mechanical hard disks,
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but this is actually going at a pretty okay rate so I think we might be okay here.
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All right. Looks like moment of truth here, I'm going to eject the installation CD.
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So that it doesn't boot to it automatically.
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And this is the ultimate moment of truth! Can it boot to the SD card?
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Not too shabby looks. Looks like it's starting Windows, and if it's going to blue screen...
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...it's going to be right here.
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Disc is back in the drive.
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Hey... we got in, we're in! Now this Gateway 200ARC is a 2002 computer so it's... well it should be well acquainted with Windows 2000.
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Yes this is taking an incredible amount of time.
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I'm not sure how long it's going to take for this to install, but I hope that the boot times for this is going to be at least somewhat reasonable.
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I would like to use this machine as just a very basic web computer.
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Although it's not going to be very ideal if i'm going to be using Windows 2000.
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I haven't run into any errors yet, so looks pretty good.
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Alright final stretch.
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This is actually going pretty good now. This is in fact the end. I haven't installed windows 2000 in a while. I don't remember what
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the final screen of installation looks like
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This is probably it.
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So if you have been wondering, throughout this installation...
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...why I decided to install windows 2000. Well Windows 2000 is a little more lightweight than Windows XP.
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I originally wanted to install XP but this little bit lighter...
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In terms of installation size, and it will definitely boot up faster on this system.
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I just think it's gonna be really satisfying to have a solid state laptop, with the exception of the optical drive.
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Hello cutie pie.
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Alright, this is it!
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Now the initial boot is probably going to be a little bit longer than a normal boot, but it's going to be pretty close.
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Aw crap.
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And here we are! The windows 2000 desktop, with a not too bad boot up time!
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We weren't sitting here for five minutes.
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Here we are.
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Delicious, delicious,
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It works, it works.
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So a few hours ago, right after I tried to restart the machine...
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...it stopped detecting the adapter again.
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So after I stopped recording to go look for the drivers, it stopped detecting my SD card adapter in the bios.
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So I shut it off for a while and left it alone, unplugged and when I brought it back up again to see what was going on,
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it booted perfectly fine, it was actually quite fast!
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And so if it actually manages to do the same thing again...
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...we'll see how long it takes.
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That's pretty snappy. I think that's actually faster than my SSD.
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Holy crap. Although this doesn't have anything installed on it and it has no drivers.
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it's just the SD card, 34 second boot up, Windows 2000, it's got a 1.4 gigahertz
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processor. Pentium M from 2002 or something. That's not bad, that's pretty good.
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Uhh...Wow yeah, so it's kind of nice!
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However I haven't put it under any stress. That's just reading,
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that's not writing it's just reading, and it's pretty fast at reading.
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So if it comes down to actually doing heavy write operations, we might be out of luck.
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Alright so we're back. Day two of this little project.
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I managed to get all the drivers installed. It was a little bit.. took a little bit more time than I thought it was going to take because I
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had to manually search for each one of the device drivers, and the original
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gateway drivers from the website are now gone.
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I can't find them anymore. So what I did is I used a little program called Everest
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which allows you to see what devices are on your system, and you can just
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specifically go to Intel most of the time to get the device driver for the
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extreme graphics in this case, the Realtek audio you can see the audio is working here.
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So it works. The drivers work. I didn't install all the drivers.
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Cuz I really didn't need other stuff. Like the PCMCIA slot.
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I'm not going to use that so. The Ethernet drivers installed, the wireless drivers installed. Still have to use Intel proset in order to find networks,
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and not too happy about that, but it works. As you can see we're watching
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a YouTube video. Now to run the latest version of Firefox on Windows 2000 took a little bit of a workaround.
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You have to install third-party unofficial Windows 2000 service packs.
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Update roll-ups and then you have to make a dll modification to Firefox itself. You have to put a custom dll file in the Firefox directory
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you have to run a special program to allow the firefox installer to run because it will not run on any system lower than XP service pack 2
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so this is the latest version of firefox, this is Firefox 28.
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I don't know if you can see that. It's HD, but it's still pretty small.
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And then to install flash.
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I could only use flash player 11 and I had to do a hack.
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I had to actually hack the executable with a hexadecimal editor, change a value so that it would install on Windows 2000.
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And as you can see it works perfectly fine.
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It'll give you a warning saying that it's a vulnerable version of flash player
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and you should update it, but hell no I'm not going to do that because trying to get it to work
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a newer version is just a pipe dream, so I'm just glad it works as well as it does right now.
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All the drivers working and running off of an SD card as its main boot volume.
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I'm very very pleased, this turned out way better than I expected.
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And if you want to try it any of this yourself, if you have a gateway 200 arc
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or maybe just an older laptop that has a mini IDE/pata whatever you want to call it.
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