I still use CDBURNERXP for such things.
Bob
following on from our great and wonderfull guide by microsoft
http://ebayphotos.webs.com/burn%201.jpg
Now can anyone tell me where the burn button is plase
http://ebayphotos.webs.com/burn%202.png
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following on from our great and wonderfull guide by microsoft
http://ebayphotos.webs.com/burn%201.jpg
Now can anyone tell me where the burn button is plase
http://ebayphotos.webs.com/burn%202.png
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well I downloaded that thing you posted and I managed to burn the disk
Thanks
its still in the .7z format which the experts told me would change but thats another matter
so to put in into a nut shell MS is a load of crap!
I looked and it seems you are trying to create a bootable CD/DVD and that requires more steps. We can still use CDBURNERXP but I would be guessing here.
1. Unzip what's inside the 7z container file?
2. I'm guessing that's a .ISO file?
3. Create the CD/DVD from the .ISO file?
Step 3 often is misunderstood. We can create bootable CD/DVDs from .ISO or we can burn the file to a CD/DVD. These are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. One is great to send the .ISO to a buddy that needs that and will create their own boot CD/DVD, the prior is to create the CD/DVD from the iso.
Again we have choices.
1. Burn the ISO to a CD/DVD.
2. Create a CD/DVD from the .ISO.
These are not the same thing!
https://cdburnerxp.se/help/Data/burn-iso should be read since I think you already know how to burn files to a CD/DVD.
Bob
Thanks for info
But the wkrs from the other did not have any instruction about this they just expected you to guess
Any way I have followed the instructions from the link you provided but it cant read the .7z file
please see my screen shot
http://ebayphotos.webs.com/burn%203.jpg
A .7z file isn't an .iso-file. So if you browse for it, it won't match. First extract the iso-file from the 7z-file using the program 7zip (free download from www.7-zip.org), then it should work (if the 7z-file contains an iso-file, of course, because nobody knows yet).
But having a Windows 2000 install disk doesn't mean at all you can use it to get a working laptop with Windows 2000.
Kees
why not the original 8.1 or Linux? Both are much easier to install than Windows 2000.
Kees
why would anyone zip a single ISO file? That makes as much sense as zipping a zip file.
One would have to deal with unpacking the .7z file first. But given all that you've written why waste time on Windows 2000? It's not going to work on today's gear. And before anyone says it will, anyone that writes it can should jump in with full support on how. It's far beyond your average user and you won't expect WiFi, sound and even the video chipset to function as good as it did when you unpacked the laptop, if at all.
Bob
A file stays the same if you burn it to disk. So if you burn a .7z file to a disk, it stays a .7z file. You don't need to be an expert to understand that.
And let me note that 7z has nothing to do with Microsoft. Microsoft doesn't use it, and Microsoft didn't make the file you downloaded. So whatever is crap (7z isn't) it's not Microsoft.
Now, for everybody that didn't read your prior post, can you explain what you're trying to do and why?
Kees
Im trying to install win 2000 onto my visa laptop
Thats the one that I bough pre installed with win 8.1 on it that I no longer have
I ran Windows 2000 for many years and it's install is very intimidating on today's hardware.
Windows 2000 didn't support SATA drives so how you would do this along with all the other hurdles is well, let's hear from you how you are going to deal with the hurdles. Do you know about all of them?
Bob
why not the original 8.1 or Linux? Both are much easier to install than Windows 2000.
I have another posting about this in the O/S win 8 forum
Although some one has decided the mark one of the posts with as answeing the question
Its is still far from it
But Linux sounds a good idea; any links to O/S for that one please?
To be honest I was looking for a win xp but can get hold of it
Been told that 2000 has everthing that win xp has except all the added modern singing and dancing junk
that is why
A .7z file isn't an .iso-file. So if you browse for it, it won't match. First extract the iso-file from the 7z-file using the program 7zip (free download from www.7-zip.org), then it should work
Whick one do I want?
Download 7-Zip 9.20 (2010-11-1
for Windows:
.exe 32-bit x86
.msi 64-bit x64
Download 7-Zip 9.36 beta (2014-12-26) for Windows:
.exe 32-bit x86
.msi 64-bit x64
Sorry but something's truly odd here. Share the web page you found these .7z images of Windows so I can check it out.
As to 7-zip, why a beta? As to the other 2, by now you should know if your Windows is 32 or 64 bit. Then you pick which fits your OS.
Bob
So I took my best bet and installed the .exe 32 bit from that link provided
ran the program, extracted the file and burn to disk and guess what it almosts looks like a proper windows O/S disk with all the .dll .exe files ect. (what happened in the middel is just black magic)
So the next bit is to put it into my other laptop and fingers crossed wish me luck
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But then again you would run smack dab into all the things that folk blow up about. Sata, drivers, limitations, parts of the laptop won't work, and so on. At no time did you indicate you are less than seasoned so claiming you can't find XP might be you leaving out some detail. Such as you want it for free. I would be guessing.
Never realy though about that
coz I have ran sata and ide machine both on xp without a problem
There's a program called engrampa in it which will unzip almost any type of zip file.
But Linux sounds a good idea; any links to O/S for that one please?
http://distrowatch.com look for the right side listing of most popular softwares
http://osdisc.com least expensive site to order DVD's of any distro, and they share with those distros
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=linux
find many videos on many linux distros. Spatry, Nixie Pixel, TOS, Infinitely Galactic, all have some of the best.
My daily OS used is Mint 17 MATE, currently running 77 days nonstop and that's with updates along the way. No need to reboot for Linux updates except for kernel updates and those can be blocked, which is wise if all devices are running OK.
if your motherboard doesn't have driver files for it's hardware that run in W2K, then you can't do an install of it the normal way. It wouldn't be able to interact with the controller chips and other chips for sound, LAN, etc on the motherboard. I tried that once with windows 98 on a newer motherboard that had no driver files for the OS and all you get is 16 color basic look and nothing else works.
If you really want/need W2K on a Vista computer (which you said came new as W8, insuring it won't support W2K natively) then you put W2K in a virtual box. Using Oracle's VirtualBox or VMWare program allows that. Also Microsoft has VPC2000 for free, if it's still available at their downloads which can do that.
You install the virtual program, you can then create a virtual hard drive which is just a large file, and then install the W2K to the virtual hard drive and it runs as a guest system inside the host system. You need 4GB of RAM for it to work properly, so you can share some to the Virtual Machine program, maybe 1.5 GB for W2K.
My bet is it had the BIOS that did IDE emulation or the boot drive was IDE and your other drives were SATA. Anyhow, you'll know when you hit those hurdles.
Bob
It booted from CD allright
Then went through the installing kernal ect. untill the point it said (in the bottom of the screen) 'setup is starting win 2000'
And now it has just hang or crashed what ever you wish to call it
Sorry but something's truly odd here. Share the web page you found these .7z images of Windows so I can check it out.
Ow werry well; do have fun
https://winworldpc.com/
BTW it was Windows 2000 Professional version 5.00.2195
You're the one that's having fun with Windows 2000 right now. We either never had it, or left it behind 10 years ago.
Kees
Windows prior to Vista didn't have built in support for SATA equipped machines. By going so far back you would be or became an expert at the use of the F6 floppy install routine (see google) and much much more.
Such installs are tedious, arcane, highly tailored to the machine on hand and never have I found a step by step on the install. I have to research, recall my prior experience and more.
-> It appears you needed to try and fail so now that that's out of the way, isn't it time to get the original OS that came with the laptop?
---->>> Here's an idea. BAIL OUT NOW. Wipe the HDD clean and go back to the store and exchange it for another working one but use all that you learned to create restore media this time.
Bob
I think we all know now this has been a pointless post. The guy has gone from Win 8 to 2000 and XP. One thing that sticks out is the lack of a legitimate OS. I'm done here, this is a scam.
Dafydd.
I've seen this before. They have to learn all this first hand. It's not good enough to warn them off, they must crash and burn because they won't believe it when told.
Some that go down this path get burned up and start lashing out at all the idiots (that is, because no one can make Windows 2000 work on today's gear, they must be idiots!) Others attempt it, learn that folk were telling them the truth and then head back to something supportable.
Bob
The guy has two different threads on the go. He's been offered all the most likely answers and failed to achieve those answers. He's been offered links to order the restore media from Acer in order to go back to Win 8 then goes off on a tangent to 2000?
As you said, people will crash and burn, but I think Linux may be be the only option here because I think there was no original legit OS.
Dafydd.
If it was a sata issue then it would tell you there is no HDD to copy files to but this is not the case
The software hear is simplaly crap! and that goes for the 7-Z file manager that wont convert any more files for me any more
Free junk off tourent sites and stuff just never worked
like buying an old banger from Africa
Now its OK if you have the know how and have weeks/ months to muck about patching up files
But for the rest of the world we just want to plug it in a work like it should
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The win 2000 files are currupt
the 7-Z files are missing
The sata issue has many manifestations and one is the Windows Installer copies or not, installs or not, boots or not. Your posts are beginning to tell me you haven't been on this ride long enough.
No worries, I understand folk take time to find out just how nutty it can be.
Bob
Having watched one guy (who fogoten more then I ever learnt) spend most of his time on freebee tourent sites downloading every thing under the sun
One day he went into the bios and fried his motherboard
I dont think he ever acived anything from his activities
So no PC after that cant of been a bad thing