[RootbeaR]

A friend of mine needs win 2000 Pro boot discs. I don't think this is illegal as a microsoft site says if you have problems to make from a friends. He is the only person I know who has it. Any help would be appreciated. Need the discs to access his system. Probably infected. Cant get it to start, shutdown, nothing. Sometimes monitor says no signal. Sometimes works. Checked wires. Put in an old spare video adapter card, starts to work fine but freezes before I can do anything.
I do not have a floppy drive so I need to be able to burn them to a CD.
Thanks
XPSP2

 

[Squashman]

So what exactly are you trying to do? The Windows 2000 CD is bootable and you can use the recovery console to fix some issues. You can't put the 4 boot floppies onto a cd that I know of. If you have the Windows 2000 Cd you could also try a repair install.

 

[Scorpion]

Or go HERE. Read the docs at the bottom about WinImage and how to make a single disk.

Scorp.

 

[RootbeaR]

Thank you very much.
Will let you know in a few hours if we have success.
Otherwise a cheap used system with OS and discs might be on the wish list.

 

[RootbeaR]

Thank you very much.
Will let you know in a few hours if we have success.
Otherwise a cheap used system with OS and discs might be on the wish list.

Don't know if we cured it or not.
Power came on, then nothing.
I installed an old spare adapter card, worked for a bit, then froze.
Uninstalled above card, set default settings and saved, ran CCleaner, deleted 120 registry entries, seems to work fine. Noticed where he plugs monitor in, it is loose, and worse, it is a Compaq Deskpro EN small form series where everything is one big board. Since computer started to respond when we moved this connection(coincidence?), I am not sure if it is broke or cracked, and only makes connection at certain angle, or if it was a corrupt registry. Did not move monitor or cables again yet.

 

[DoubleHelix]

The boot disks you found only boot to a point where you insert the actual operating system CD. There is no free download for Windows 2000. If you need to do an actual repair, you'd need to buy a Windows 2000 CD.

 

[RootbeaR]

Didn't actually get to try the discs, did the afore mentioned. Informed him he needs to buy a proper program to make an image, and/or back-up program as well as to buy system discs. He just wants to use this computer for a little longer-year- then buy a new one.