What is Windows 2000? How to download Windows 2000 ISO for VirtualBox or VMware? How to install Windows 2000 on a virtual machine? After reading this post, you know much information about this operating system. Let’s look through the guide from MiniTool.
Overview of Windows 2000
Windows 2000 (also called Win2K) is a major release of the Windows NT operating system from Microsoft that was released on December 15, 1999 and was released to retail on February 17, 2000. This operating system is the successor to Windows NT 4.0. On the market, four editions are available including Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server.
Windows 2000 introduces Encrypting File System, basic and dynamic disk storage, Active Directory, the support for different languages, new Accessibility Options, and more. Windows 2000 is succeeded by Windows XP while Windows 2000 Server is succeeded by Windows Server 2003.
Although Windows 2000 is an old operating system, sometimes you need to install this system for use, especially use it on a virtual machine. In the following part, we will show how to download Windows 2000 ISO for VMware or VirtualBox and then install it.
Windows 2000 ISO Downloads for VirtualBox/VMware
Now there is no official download page for you to download Windows 2000 ISO but you can get an ISO file from some third-party web pages. Just search for Windows 2000 SP4.ISO, Windows 2000 Professional ISO, Windows 2000 ISO download 64 bit or other related words in Google Chrome and you can find some download pages. Open them and download the ISO you need.
Of course, you can directly search for the ISO file of Windows 2000 you need on the website of archive.org and download it.
How to Install Windows 2000 in a Virtual Machine?
After getting the Windows 2000 ISO file, you can install the system on a virtual machine and here we will take VMware as an example.
Step 1: Launch your VMware Workstation on your PC. Then, click File > New Virtual Machine.
Step 2: Choose Custom and click Next.
Step 3: Select the virtual machine hardware compatibility and then choose I will install the operating system later.
Step 4: In the Guest Operating System section interface, choose Microsoft Windows > Windows 2000 Server, then change the name of the virtual machine and specify a location.
Step 5: Make processor and RAM configuration, choose a network type, I/O controller type, and virtual disk type.
Step 6: Select Create a new virtual disk, adjust the maximum disk size, specify disk file (continue with the default value) and click Finish.
After configuring the new virtual machine, it’s time to install Windows 2000 with the ISO file you have downloaded.
Step 1: Click CD/DVD > Use ISO image file to choose the Windows 2000 ISO file you get and click OK.
Step 2: Click Power on this virtual machine and the Windows 2000 Setup screen appears.
Step 3: Press Enter to set up Windows 2000 now.
Step 4: Accept the license agreement by pressing F8.
Step 5: You can see the disk size you have assigned to the virtual disk before and you can press C to create a new partition or directly press Enter to install.
Step 6: Format the partition using the NTFS file system.
Step 7: Then, the setup is formatting and installing the system. Follow the on-screen instructions to finish all the setup operations.
Final Words
That’s all the information on Windows 2000 ISO downloads for VMware or VirtualBox and installation. Just get the ISO file and install the system on your virtual machine.
About The Author
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Vera is an editor of the MiniTool Team since 2016 who has more than 7 years’ writing experiences in the field of technical articles. Her articles mainly focus on disk & partition management, PC data recovery, video conversion, as well as PC backup & restore, helping users to solve some errors and issues when using their computers. In her spare times, she likes shopping, playing games and reading some articles.