Looking for an unlisted edition of Windows 2000

ratman743

I'm currently restoring a Dell Latitude C600 laptop, and found a quite odd edition of 2K listed on the bottom, which I believe is what was originally pre-installed on it.



"Windows 2000 1-2 CPU"

It seems like Dell got their hands on some proprietary version of W2K.

I would greatly appreciate it if somebody could help me out with getting an .ISO to this.

Thank you to all that help out!

calvinb

Windows 2000 Pro is normally 1-2 CPUs only, iIRC. If it isn't, this also might be a special OEM variant that's restricted to that.

ratman743

There's apparently a recovery CD for these types of machines; I'm wondering if they're common enough to where there's an .ISO somewhere.

From what I'm getting, they look like this:



Though I may be being too specific. I would believe that the original is 1-2 CPU as well, but what's bothering me is that it's specifically listed as 1-2 CPU.

SomeGuy

Had not thought about that in ages. A quick google search:
Windows 2000 Professional - 2 CPUs
Windows 2000 Server - 4
Windows 2000 Advanced Server - 8
Windows 2000 Datacenter server - 16-32

I could imagine if they had some 4-cpu/core "workstations" people could get confused if they tried to install or transfer 2000 Professional, not realizing they would need 2000 Server instead. So it might just be to disambiguate.

msorri

It's just a normal Windows 2000 Professional, licensed for 1 or 2 CPUs. Some OEMs used COAs which stated just "Windows 2000 Professional", and others included the license information.

ratman743

Oh. So it turns out I was just asking for the normal Win2K all along

:oops:

Well thanks to the people that took the time to correct me! I'm guessing the reason why the key on the laptop doesn't work is because I was using the Retail version.