Need Inspiron Recovery Disc for Windows 2000

Have a Dell Inspiron 8000; its hard drive was wiped before it was
donated, through a third party, to my ARES unit (we do search-and-
rescue communications support plus other emergency functions in the
rural area of our rather large county, on own own dime without gov't
support).

Have the License Key for 2000, should be able to reinstall it, if the
HD had not been so thoroughly wiped. Can send you a pic of the unit.

Need the OS CD so I can reinstall 2000. Anyone have theirs from
another Inspiron 8000?

73s and best regards,

K7AAY

> Need the OS CD so I can reinstall 2000. Anyone have theirs from
> another Inspiron 8000?

You could always try...

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3574828/...D_-_eXPerience

Colin Wilson wrote:
> You could always try...
> http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3574828/...D_-_eXPerience

Anyone have a solution without pirated software?
As an author, I prefer not to violate copyright, as it likely would
come back to haunt me.

On Mar 22, 12:25 pm, Colin Wilson
<removeeverythingbutnewsgr...@phoenixbbsZEROSPAM.c o.uk> wrote:
> You could always try...
>
> http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3574828/...D_-_eXPerience

If you read the comments for that torrent, there are also questions
regarding the integrity and safety of that download,.
That leads me to suggest I'd like the OS CD from an Inspiron 8000.
Nothing more, nothing less.

And, the complaints from download victims from the link above
illustrate the virtue of that approach. Read, and ponder.



meowing at 2007-02-01 17:07 CET:

One of your many Trojan droppers again, eXPerience?

Be careful, before installing check the actual ISO content for
viruses.

All eXPerience stuff is fishy; When I tried to warn users on the
retestrak.nl forum about their trojan droppers, they immediately
kicked me. They're probably doing this in order to get a large dDoS
mafia base.

Just so you know!

netu at 2007-02-06 16:33 CET:

I downl and burned the cd on a TraxData cd at 4x speed. I installed XP
on two brand new computers - a P4 dual core and an Athlon 64 3500+.

On the first one there were some file errors during installation and
later on it never finished with it. I just used my tradional XP SP1 cd
+ manual SP2 and everything worked smoothed as I've expected.

On the second one it was ok at the beginning. But the sound didn't
work well. Winamp played like in slow motion. colours were too red and
felt unnatural. when changing skins for XP and swithing between
resolutions desktop icons became smaller and smaller - I couldn't
solve that. In the end I thought I bought a broke MB. However I said
to give it a try with my XP cd. All went well as usual.

I don't wont to say anything bad about the effort you put into it but
it didn't work on two different PCs and I lost 3days because of this.

it could be a no luck situation - that happened twice.

judge it yourself

The short path is the one that u know.

> Anyone have a solution without pirated software?

The software is licenced - you *have* the licence.

> As an author, I prefer not to violate copyright, as it likely would
> come back to haunt me.

I used to write small apps myself, so I know where you're coming from.

While i'm generally against copyright infringement too, you have a
*legitimate* key - the media to allow you to use that key is almost
incidental, although you can probably buy one from Ebay easily enough.

As regards the comments on the torrent site - not a problem, pick one
that sounds like it has no issues (there are several).

You do not need a specific Windows 2000 CD for the Inspiron 8000. One simply
does not exist.

What you do need to get the Inspiron 8000 back to almost as-shipped condition
are a standard plain vanilla Windows 2000 install CD PLUS all the Windows 2000
drivers for the beast downloaded from the Dell web site. This is essentially
what you would have gotten had you bought the system new.

If the Inspiron 8000 supports a non-essential diagnostic partition, reinstalling
Win 2000 won't put that in place, hence "almost" above... Ben Myers

On 22 Mar 2007 10:56:44 -0700, "K7AAY" <> wrote:

>Have a Dell Inspiron 8000; its hard drive was wiped before it was
>donated, through a third party, to my ARES unit (we do search-and-
>rescue communications support plus other emergency functions in the
>rural area of our rather large county, on own own dime without gov't
>support).
>
>Have the License Key for 2000, should be able to reinstall it, if the
>HD had not been so thoroughly wiped. Can send you a pic of the unit.
>
>Need the OS CD so I can reinstall 2000. Anyone have theirs from
>another Inspiron 8000?
>
>73s and best regards,
>
>K7AAY

On Mar 23, 9:11 am, Ben Myers <ben_myers_spam_me_...@charter.net>
wrote:
> You do not need a specific Windows 2000 CD for the Inspiron 8000. One simply
> does not exist.
>
> What you do need to get the Inspiron 8000 back to almost as-shipped condition
> are a standard plain vanilla Windows 2000 install CD <snip>

Which I do not have.

On Mar 28, 9:21 pm, "K7AAY" <john.bart...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 23, 9:11 am, Ben Myers <ben_myers_spam_me_...@charter.net>
> wrote:
>
> > You do not need a specific Windows 2000 CD for the Inspiron 8000. One simply
> > does not exist.
>
> > What you do need to get the Inspiron 8000 back to almost as-shipped condition
> > are a standard plain vanilla Windows 2000 install CD <snip>
>
> Which I do not have.

Got a friend with any Dell with win2k? It's the same CD. A generic
Win2k disk will also work with the Dell COA.

Dear Kilo 7 Alpha Alpha Yankee:

what you ask for is a free copy of win2k which was supplied with the
computer,
and per MS license, the hardware is married to the software. If the donator
was to have the cd then you would be all set, legally as you should be, and
if they do not have it, they are the only ones who could get that media
legally for you.
otherwise you are going to have to bootleg a win2k cd and any will work,
it does not have to be from dell. however a win2k from another manufacturer
may not work either; I suggest looking for a retail copy of win2k pro.
and of course you will need the serial number for THAT to make IT load and
be legal,
even though an OS already came with your laptop in the firstplace. It is my
firm opinion
that an OS should ALWAYS be available from a manufacturer anytime, once paid
for,
and the fact that they don't make it available is just an EXCUSE to make
more money.

good luck
KC8RYX en82 73



"K7AAY" <> wrote in message
news: oups.com...
> Have a Dell Inspiron 8000; its hard drive was wiped before it was
> donated, through a third party, to my ARES unit (we do search-and-
> rescue communications support plus other emergency functions in the
> rural area of our rather large county, on own own dime without gov't
> support).
>
> Have the License Key for 2000, should be able to reinstall it, if the
> HD had not been so thoroughly wiped. Can send you a pic of the unit.
>
> Need the OS CD so I can reinstall 2000. Anyone have theirs from
> another Inspiron 8000?
>
> 73s and best regards,
>
> K7AAY
>

Actually, that's not true. The license isn't the CD, it is the COA sticker.
As long as he has a valid COA sticker and uses that product key, he can use
any media, borrowed, burned or bought and still be legal.


"James W. Long" <> wrote in message
news:9a2dnVCet_-...
>
> Dear Kilo 7 Alpha Alpha Yankee:
>
> what you ask for is a free copy of win2k which was supplied with the
> computer,
> and per MS license, the hardware is married to the software. If the
> donator
> was to have the cd then you would be all set, legally as you should be,
> and
> if they do not have it, they are the only ones who could get that media
> legally for you.
> otherwise you are going to have to bootleg a win2k cd and any will work,
> it does not have to be from dell. however a win2k from another
> manufacturer
> may not work either; I suggest looking for a retail copy of win2k pro.
> and of course you will need the serial number for THAT to make IT load and
> be legal,
> even though an OS already came with your laptop in the firstplace. It is
> my
> firm opinion
> that an OS should ALWAYS be available from a manufacturer anytime, once
> paid
> for,
> and the fact that they don't make it available is just an EXCUSE to make
> more money.
>
> good luck
> KC8RYX en82 73
>
>
>
> "K7AAY" <> wrote in message
> news: oups.com...
>> Have a Dell Inspiron 8000; its hard drive was wiped before it was
>> donated, through a third party, to my ARES unit (we do search-and-
>> rescue communications support plus other emergency functions in the
>> rural area of our rather large county, on own own dime without gov't
>> support).
>>
>> Have the License Key for 2000, should be able to reinstall it, if the
>> HD had not been so thoroughly wiped. Can send you a pic of the unit.
>>
>> Need the OS CD so I can reinstall 2000. Anyone have theirs from
>> another Inspiron 8000?
>>
>> 73s and best regards,
>>
>> K7AAY
>>
>
>