by @Macarlo, Team OS/2 Registered
Windows 2000 Professional Beta Tester
(Screenshots by Namo Capture)



Windows 2000 Professional accepts OS/2 Warp as a Client but you can't works on HPFS volumes inside this new MS platform.

CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO JUMP THIS OTHER REPORT ABOUT NT4 SP5

Working on HPFS Inside Windows NT>###

 Hi All.
Today I continued the tests on Windows 2000 Professional Beta 3, experiencing dozens of Windows 32 and 16 bits applications and drivers and I' m very melancholic: I just discovered that Windows 2000 Professional simply discriminates OS/2 Warp! I" m running Windows 2000 Professional Beta 3 on volume primary formated in NTFS5. OS/2 Warp can't access this file type and Windows 2000 can't see Warp's volumes formated in HPFS! On NT4 SP5 I used the bundle that contain Pinball.sys from NT 3.51 and I can works perfectly on HPFS volumes from Windows NT (I read, write and check disk without problems). Now, on this new platform I discovered that the drivers from NT 3.51 simply can't be installed because the Setup don't recognizes NT5, only NT4. I forced the install using hacker process and rebooted the machine, but Wndows 2000 immediately refused my task and send me a banner (see photo below) Note that the Registry of Windows 2000 (aka Windows NT 5.0) is using another structure that differ totally of the NT4 Registry.

Photo above shows the notification about Windows 2000 incompatibility with Pinball.sys, the driver for HPFS on Windows NT technology

Also I verified that Windows 2000 improves special support for all UNIX in order to promote the integration with Linux. Notepad is a basic text editor that is most commonly used to view or edit .txt files, such as the Readme.txt files provided with the Windows 2000 software. Text-only files are critical if you share documents with someone using another platform like Macintosh or UNIX. WordPad also lets you save your files as a Word document, so you can modify files created in Word even if you don't have the program yourself.
I discovered that HPFS is a word that simply don't exist in the Windows 2000 Help. The only references to OS/2 I encountered in Windows 2000's help is as a Subsystem in a Net: <OS/2 configuration commands You configure the OS/2 subsystem with Config.sys commands, such as devicename or libpath. Use an OS/2 editor to edit C:\Config.sys. These commands affect only the OS/2 subsystem. Codepage Selects the code pages that the system will use for the MS OS/2 subsystem. To use this command, place it in your OS/2 C:\Config.sys file. codepage=xxx[,yyy] Parameters xxx Specifies the first code page. This must be a three-digit number from this list:

437 United States
850 Multilingual (Latin I)
852 Slavic (Latin II)
855 Cyrillic (Russian)
857 Turkish
860 Portuguese
861 Icelandic
863 Canadian-French
865 Nordic
866 Russian
869 Modern Greek

yyy

This parameter is not used by the OS/2 subsystem. It is accepted only for compatibility with files from MS OS/2 version 1.3 or earlier.>

An this other:<To change the OS/2 configuration on a computer running Windows 2000 with a separate OS/2 partition

1. While running Windows 2000 Professional, start an OS/2 text editor in a window by clicking Start, clicking Run, and typing the file path and the name of the OS/2 text editor in the window, and then clicking OK.
2. Open the Config.sys file in the OS/2 text editor. The config.sys file is located in the root directory of the hard drive (located in systemroot\System32).

   Windows 2000 Professional retrieves the configuration information from the registry and stores it in a temporary file.

3. Edit the configuration information as required to achieve the desired results.
4. Save and close the file in the OS/2 text editor.
5. Exit the text editor.

   Windows 2000 Professional stores the new information in the registry.

1. Log off Windows 2000 Professional and restart your computer. To restart your computer, click Start, click Shut Down, and then click Restart.
   
    

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