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The W2K GUI seems to lock up my machine when I run it. Whats wrong?

April 26, 2017GUI lock Machine run W2K wrong

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The W2K GUI seems to lock up my machine when I run it. Whats wrong?

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There have been reports that some ATA-100 drivers cause this behavior. You may be able to run the GUI if you use the standard W2K drivers instead. It probably would be easier to just use the Linux boot floppy method, though. RTVPatch version 2.4 uses an improved drive detection method, so this problem shouldn’t happen any more. There have also been reports that if you have some drives on an on-board IDE controller and some drives on an ATA-100 plug-in controller that it locks up or doesn’t see all of the drives. Putting all of the drives on the ATA-100 controller may fix this problem. • Should I format the new drive before running RTVPatch? It is advisable to run a low-level format using a utility program from your disk manufacturer before doing the upgrade, because this will help map out any bad sectors. You definitely do not want any DOS/Windows formatted partitions on the new hard drive when you run the W2K GUI version of RTVPatch because RTVPatch will overwrite the partitions. If t