Here's Windows Embedded POSReady 2009, directly from Microsoft!
Maybe this can be added to WinWorld's OS library, as the ISO is available for free from Microsoft's website.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11196
Just go to that page and click the download button to download it. It will then take you to a download confirmation page and start the download. The download confirmation page is at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=11196 and if you go there directly, the download will start automatically. Note that as Microsoft phases out this (and other Windows XP products), they may remove these download pages. If they do, there's still the URL from the link on the confirmation page that says "click here to download manually". That URL is https://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3/6/636E5B38-EA04-4F25-A059-CA6EDF773F79/POSready2009_CD.iso and is a direct link to the ISO file on Microsoft's server. I've discovered in the past that Microsoft tends to not delete the raw files off their server for a long time after pages that reference the files have been removed. So this direct download link should work the longest. Even so, the ISO will probably be removed from their server eventually, so hopefully this ISO will get uploaded to the WinWorldPC OS library eventually.
Unfortunately, installing POSReady 2009 from this ISO requires a product key, even for the 120day free evaluation version, and the pages on the MS website that contain this ISO don't also contain the product key. Doing some research I found somebody else was asking the same question at the official MS forums here https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/2eb96fe7-a165-499b-b315-c912b84f0b03/product-key-for-the-pos-ready-2009?forum=posready . One link there was provided https://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/downloads.aspx which should get me to a page that has the key, but that page now redirects to a new page for Azure IoT. Fortunately that page was available in web.archive.org which is the Wayback Machine. Unfortunately, it required having a Microsoft account to access it, and while I do have a hotmail account (which would have worked) because it was on the Wayback Machine, they don't have a copy of the user database so no login would be possible.
I found a solution to this problem, when I discovered that in the user-uploads section of archive.org somebody had uploaded the ISO along with an evaluation version product key. With it, I was able to install POSReady 2009 in a VirtualBox VM. I also was able to verify that in fact it was an evaluation version by setting the date over 120 days ahead, and noticing that it refused to boot after that, warning that the evaluation period had expired.
The evaluation version product key I found on archive.org is
KFF8R-TMHF4-GKT2P-KGDHH-FXPMB
It seems that Microsoft issued 2 different evaluation version product keys, as I also found another one on two different sites (Facebook and Blogspot). This one is
D4GQ7-HG48K-7YP6R-6JM4C-33FMQ
I have also verified that this one works.
Note that there's a 3rd product key that exists (also found in the user uploads section of archive.org), and it's for the full version (not evaluation version) that also works with this ISO (doesn't require a separate full version ISO), and when you use that product key, you get the full version that doesn't expire (and yes, I tested it to make sure that it didn't expire after 120 days). However, I will NOT be posting that here, until Windows XP is allowed to be hosted on WinWorldPC, as I don't want to be banned for posting a full version product key.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11196
Just go to that page and click the download button to download it. It will then take you to a download confirmation page and start the download. The download confirmation page is at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=11196 and if you go there directly, the download will start automatically. Note that as Microsoft phases out this (and other Windows XP products), they may remove these download pages. If they do, there's still the URL from the link on the confirmation page that says "click here to download manually". That URL is https://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3/6/636E5B38-EA04-4F25-A059-CA6EDF773F79/POSready2009_CD.iso and is a direct link to the ISO file on Microsoft's server. I've discovered in the past that Microsoft tends to not delete the raw files off their server for a long time after pages that reference the files have been removed. So this direct download link should work the longest. Even so, the ISO will probably be removed from their server eventually, so hopefully this ISO will get uploaded to the WinWorldPC OS library eventually.
Unfortunately, installing POSReady 2009 from this ISO requires a product key, even for the 120day free evaluation version, and the pages on the MS website that contain this ISO don't also contain the product key. Doing some research I found somebody else was asking the same question at the official MS forums here https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/2eb96fe7-a165-499b-b315-c912b84f0b03/product-key-for-the-pos-ready-2009?forum=posready . One link there was provided https://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/downloads.aspx which should get me to a page that has the key, but that page now redirects to a new page for Azure IoT. Fortunately that page was available in web.archive.org which is the Wayback Machine. Unfortunately, it required having a Microsoft account to access it, and while I do have a hotmail account (which would have worked) because it was on the Wayback Machine, they don't have a copy of the user database so no login would be possible.
I found a solution to this problem, when I discovered that in the user-uploads section of archive.org somebody had uploaded the ISO along with an evaluation version product key. With it, I was able to install POSReady 2009 in a VirtualBox VM. I also was able to verify that in fact it was an evaluation version by setting the date over 120 days ahead, and noticing that it refused to boot after that, warning that the evaluation period had expired.
The evaluation version product key I found on archive.org is
KFF8R-TMHF4-GKT2P-KGDHH-FXPMB
It seems that Microsoft issued 2 different evaluation version product keys, as I also found another one on two different sites (Facebook and Blogspot). This one is
D4GQ7-HG48K-7YP6R-6JM4C-33FMQ
I have also verified that this one works.
Note that there's a 3rd product key that exists (also found in the user uploads section of archive.org), and it's for the full version (not evaluation version) that also works with this ISO (doesn't require a separate full version ISO), and when you use that product key, you get the full version that doesn't expire (and yes, I tested it to make sure that it didn't expire after 120 days). However, I will NOT be posting that here, until Windows XP is allowed to be hosted on WinWorldPC, as I don't want to be banned for posting a full version product key.
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I seem to remember that the password needs at least one numeral and at least one capital letter. Could this be your problem?
Even though I can't have the chance to experience POSReady itself yet other than knowing the updates for it to XP via a registry hack some desperado wants to have, I would expect it to look and feel just like XP even if it was made for cash machines.
It's an XP based OS. In fact, security updates were still being provided by MS in 2019, and XP fans have been applying these to their XP retail machines. WinWorld has already quite clearly stated the situation on XP and O2k.
https://forum.winworldpc.com/discussion/9882/rule-do-not-request-windows-xp-or-office-2000
But here's the good news: both the small ISO you referenced, and the larger DVD that it is a subset of is easily available through other sites.
Also readily found are full product keys, which of course will work with either media set.
@SomeGuy what do you think about this? As the ISO I linked to in my opening post is officially distributed for free from MS (and in fact my opening post only linked to its microsoft.com download location, not 3rd party), then it makes sense that it's not piracy to redistribute that specific ISO. Therefore wouldn't it be ok to upload it to WinWorldPC's OS library, or at least email a MS official and ask if it would be ok to do that?
Companies can be weird about mirroring content like that. Especially if someone might get ad revenue from it.
How about a nice copy of Gazelle Systems Back-It 2.0 instead? https://winworldpc.com/product/back-it/2x
(it should be noted that dump were files I found on a disk and weren't the OEM disks or anything like that, it was on a set of junk disks I bought to test my 5.25 drive).
Might as well just leave it... not unless some generous soul can provide me with a pre-made VM of it where I'm able to log on with it perfectly. Even if it's one with a minimal set-up if it's more convenient.
And I'll drop you a PM about that. Thanks.
Here's the direct link to download it from the Wayback Machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210327203714id_/https://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3/6/636E5B38-EA04-4F25-A059-CA6EDF773F79/POSready2009_CD.iso