FOUND  Originals installations cd's of W98SE, W2k, Win ME,  English - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: coromonadalix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2023, 02:49:11 pm
content: Title says it all, sounds desesperate in a sense with oldies like thisEnglish version of thesesoriginals cd'sIt for a very stubborn 7404 Tek scope, and plsI dont want to pay for the "vintage stuff" ripp offI can find many DELL ones for mere dollars, but i want Microsoft onesIf some have them dormant ?? COA no COA keys toothks

author: HighVoltage
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2023, 03:10:51 pm
content: I might have an original ISO image of Windows 2000 Professional.But you want the real original CD in your hands?

author: coromonadalix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2023, 03:24:38 pm
content: yes thksreal non burned cd's in my handsI have all the iso's that world can provide loll this #$#%# is rejecting them all, and now even blank cd-r are getting scarce unlees you pay $$$ for a bundle of 50I lost countless hours on this scope, but i know it work, the age has took its toll on the nvram cell, mobo battery cell, the hdd seem on the verge of dyingwindows 95, as worked 5 min in it .. but no way to install drivers, since the usb port brivers would not install, and can not upgrade to win98 since i dont have them lolland since i tried at least 10 different brands of slim drives cd and dvd, cd-rw dvd-rw .... no one worked in the motherboard as a slave device (original TEK setup), all will work in master, but not the drive ?? even with the master / slave / cable select jumper and obviously the bios settings tooThat's why i think the Scope is HW limitted/crippled

author: HighVoltage
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2023, 04:14:08 pm
content: If that is the case, then the original Microsoft CD will probably also not work. Most likely Tek had a modified installation CD only for their applications.Your best bet is probably an image from a working HDD from that scope type.

author: iJoseph2
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2023, 04:42:22 pm
content: I know you said no ISO's but i'm going to put these links here just in case its useful to someone ...https://archive.org/details/win2kproisohttps://archive.org/details/WSTRO_V25-V281In your case you may need to create a slipstreamed ISO with the appropriate files included.Or you may need a specific service pack image.Anyway good luck!!

author: iJoseph2
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2023, 04:53:26 pm
content: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305249888310

author: dew
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2023, 05:02:36 pm
content: It would be so much easier to deploy a working image straight to the disk. If Tek had recovery disks, they most likely were proprietary slipstreamed images, not original MS ISOs. It might not even be possible to install OS without one of those. That scope has IDE drive, I'm assuming. You can also use SD to IDE adapter instead of the old drive. It would run much faster.

author: nali
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2023, 05:30:01 pm
content: Quote from: coromonadalix on November 18, 2023, 03:24:38 pmNote that the original Win 95 didn't support USB, that came with a later update (OSR 2.1). It might be easiest getting hold of a junk PC just to put the drives in to boot & install an OS or Tek image if you can find one.

author: magic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2023, 06:24:39 pm
content: I have a pirate W98 which installs even from an HDD - I just boot a DOS floppy, chdir to the installer directory and run setup.exe or whatever it's called.Genuine may (or may not) work this way too if you copy setup files from CD to disk. I think it can be the same disk you are installing to, but not sure if can be the same partition.If there is no floppy drive, make the hard disk bootable with MS-DOS.

author: coromonadalix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 19, 2023, 12:58:54 am
content: thks @ll yes i know about iso's etc ... or ide to CF or ide SSD's etc ...i just wanted to find original medias, while i wait for other tech to arrive, i did received a few things in PM, and sadly there is still an vintage effect pricing for dormant stuffi'm very limitted in 2.5" ide drives, and dont want to invest more ..For the bootables ones, yes i know the trick, i made win95 win 98 ... bootables cd-rom ... they helped me a lot on oldies, but not this one lollwin2k ask for 4-5 disquettes to load before starting the install, but complaint a lot for the disk size, and i put a 60 gigs and parameters are being changed ... you have setup commands, but for disk size it still get block/stuck

author: coromonadalix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 20, 2023, 07:20:03 pm
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