Re: Win2K ISO has no product key

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks Paul, the file I recommended ("all-updates") has a
readme saying you don't have to register, but I wasn't sure if that was
true, since I had at some point or another had to register another W2K in
another VM that I have since lost track of. Indeed, a potential problem
with VMs is that you can have so many of them, and if you aren't careful,
may lose track. When I did have a W2K VM which needed a product
key, I just googled for the info and found several, one of which worked.
It's good to know that someone else has had an easy ride with this
process.


At 26/07/2014 22:46, you wrote:

Bill, I pointed Harry to a
Win2000 folder I put on Dropbox that seemed to be the one you
recommended, entitled
"Windows-2000-SP4-Final-2011-Edition_(all-updates)" -- I
grabbed this file months ago on your suggestion, I believe, and I also
picked up another ISO seemed legit online and that I have used.


I just ran the setup for
Windows-2000-SP4-Final-2011-Edition_(all-updates) (the ISO is
W2K-2011.iso) on my machine, in Virtualbox, and all appears fine, using a
host-only network adapter and a PS/2 mouse. (Those were the only default
settings I altered besides choosing to use a disk of fixed size.) There
is an opportunity to register after setup is complete, but you can click
thru that and never see it again so far as I can tell. I did encounter a
slow reboot the first time, but after that things run fast and smooth.
Didn't bother completing the setup beyond that -- I merely wanted to
verify that things did work. Initial setup less than 20 mins. So things
look fine at my end, anyway.


The other ISO, which I also have used successfully without issues and
used XyWrite on, does ask for a product key (which for installation ease
I added to the ISO's name). I don't think there should be any problems
with that ISO, if Harry grabbed that one instead.


Paul Lagasse


On 07/26/2014 04:56 PM, Bill Troop wrote:

Harry, I'd like to know what
file you were trying to work with, so as to be able not to recommend it.
The file I recommend does not require a serial and has no viruses. I
would not have recommended it so enthusiastically if there had been such
a problem. Sorry to hear that you have had so many difficulties. For me,
from downloading the ISO to running XyWrite took about 20 minutes and
there just weren't any problems.


At 26/07/2014 19:14, you wrote:

Okay, I?m throwing in the towel.
Too many (authentic, not paranoid) viruses, too much difficulty in
installing, too much time, for too little value when it all gets
done.

 

But thank you all for your help.

 

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Subject: Re: Win2K ISO has no product key

 

Try one of the "with SP4 integrated" keys. I think DDT...
worked for me. If you grabbed the
"Windows-2000-SP4-Final-2011-Edition_(all-updates)" folder, see
the product key info text file.


pl

On 07/26/2014 12:33 AM, Harry Binswanger wrote:

I got pretty far through the installation of Win2K via the ISO? until
it wanted the product key. Could find any likely looking file in the zip
that I got.