Need Win 2K Pro CD Image

[fbrdphreak]

Long story short: I got an academic license of Win2K Pro thru my school but the copy I DLed thru them will not boot on my Dad's OLD HP laptop. I need somebody's Win2K SP4 CD image. A copy mailed to me or even an online transfer (University network = very fast) would be greatly appreciated and I would reimburse you for any costs of shipping, hell even a little change extra for ya (Not too much, poor college student 😉) Please PM me and hopefully we can work something out, thanks!

 

[fbrdphreak]

bump for help 🙂

 

[jackschmittusa]

Why won't it boot? Have a floppy in the laptop? Make a set of boot floppys.

 

[doan]

does the Win2k CD boot in annother machine? Depending on how old the laptop is, it may not boot off CD at all. You could confirm by booting off a Knopix CD

 

[ColKurtz]

Also, and I'm sure you would have noticed, you have to interact with the CD to get it to boot - during startup it will say "hit any key to boot from CD". If you don't hit the ANY key, it won't boot 🙂 .

Otherwise, the other posters' advice is probably best - make floppies if it really won't boot. If your copy ends up being damaged after all, bittorrent might be your best option.

 

[fbrdphreak]

I tried to have it make the boot disks, but for some reason those didn't work either (I don't remember why).
However, I must plead stupidity. At the time when I was setting this up, I only had access to the ugly Kz & not BT. However, I have a good couple weeks before I need this image and now that my brain fart has been cleared and I will get a 2K image off BT.
BTW doan, I had a copy of XP Home installed on there a while back and it booted off that CD just fine. It also booted off of the DLed version of 2K that I got of Kz. Its a known issue with older machines when people take the MSDN DVD of MS operating systems, rip the particular OS to a CD, and use a different boot loader.
Thanks all!