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What W2K installation media is being used? I have the misfortune to support some software that only runs under W2K, and we have a W2K box under XEN for that purpose. We even have paravirtualized drivers for XEN which makes performance tolerable. However before that I created a W2K slipstreamed disk that allows W2K to be installed on hardware supported in W2K SP4, which allowed it to be installed in DELL SC1425s amongst other boxes. Whilst I failed miserably to create my own W2K virtualized box that was because I wanted XEN HVM and didn't have the hardware to hand. Although Microsoft don't support W2K, or the process to backup and restore to new hardware, they do document it. It is basically install, restore backup, reinstall drivers you need to boot. The only daft gotcha I hit is that W2K chkdsk may run if it doesn't understand a partition, and will almost certainly make destructive modifications to disk in such circumstances after a 9 second pause. Oh and yes don't do this Gordon, get some sensible accounting software, and make sure any old accounts archives are accessible enough under the new system even if that means printing them out as big text files or some such so you never have to touch it again. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq