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Re: Win2K ISO has no product key



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, Im 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.