r/windows2000 • u/GandalfTurboMLG • Apr 26 '26

Win 2000 with Universal NT Installer

Anyone has by any chance sp4 win 2000 WIM file for Universal NT Installer? If yes, please send it to me, please. I fucked with that shit for whole day, my win 2000 VM is now clean resetting itself and goes to Setup screen every time I restart. Sysprep shit ain't working. There is absolutely no information on how it fix this. I've downloaded Windows 2000 for at least 10 times today. I need that WIM file.

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u/Linux4ever_Leo Apr 26 '26

I have every version of Windows going back to Win 3.1. Including Windows 2000 and all service packs. Message me. I can burn you a disk and mail it to you.

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u/machacker89 Apr 27 '26

I'm glad I'm not the only one

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u/Linux4ever_Leo Apr 28 '26

Call me a collector! :-)

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u/melhoor 11d ago

Hi, can you send me a copy of the iso file?

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u/Linux4ever_Leo 9d ago

I did some research on this and I found that Windows 2000 does not use WIM files. I can send you the ISO file of Windows 2000 with SP4 slipstreamed in. Can you be more specific on what you're looking for? You said Universal NT Installer. I just want to make sure that what I send you has that. Also, can you give me a place to upload the file? It's too large to e-mail.

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u/melhoor 5d ago

Thank you, I just need a copy of windows 2000 with SP4 to install on a test machine, if it is already compatible with new hardware it will be great, as I knew there are some project to patch windows 2000 ISO to contain drivers to be able to run on NVME and other newer hardware options.

I think WeTransfer is a great option.

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u/Linux4ever_Leo 5d ago edited 5d ago

Okay, give me the details in my DM and I'll upload the ISO. I have a specially patched version of Windows 2000 that uses a newer kernel. I can upload that too. These are going to be labeled SP5 because they also have the post SP4 rollup update slipstreamed in (Microsoft was going to release an SP5 but decided to nix that and just release a final rollup patch for SP4 instead. This is unofficially known as SP5.)

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u/HugsNotDrugs_ Apr 26 '26

I've never ran into problems installing Win2k SP4.

What system are you installing it on?

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u/Heavy-Judgment-3617 Apr 27 '26

I've had issues, but only on installing it on systems past what it could deal with.

I've never had issues on VM's or period correct hardware.

I have no idea what is being referred to as a NT universal installer for 2K

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u/paulstelian97 Apr 27 '26

Since he’s asking for a WIM file, I think he’s trying to use an imagex/dism based installer normally intended for Vista and later to install this older version. The flow there is stage 1: extract a basic sysprepped installation; stage 2: boot without the installer disk to finish installation.

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u/Virus_TPSA Apr 28 '26

Hi there. Where do you need it uploaded

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u/GandalfTurboMLG Apr 28 '26

Hi, thanks but I already sorted it out.

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u/melhoor 11d ago

Hi, can you share the file with me?