windows me recovery cd

one of our computers failed on us, and i am trying to find recovery information for windows me on microsoft.com but i can't seem to find it


anyone know where i can get a hold of a free windows me recovery cd?

 

probably through phone contact with support

 

well, the trouble is that...

source: http://support.microsoft.com/ph/6519

torrent sources are not really safe, using them you ask for troubles with malware,

 

thanks, what about windows 2000? did they remove support for that aswell? anyone know of another site on the web that still has some kind of recovery file you can download?

 

I don't think we should be talking about torrents cause they have an illegal connotation

 

windows 2000 should be supported until 13 July 2010... i'd suggest to contact Microsoft regarding the recovery CD

erwallie: sure, but very often it is not sufficient... also the risky half of it needs to be added. i mean, you'd never guess how many people are surprised that their machine got infected by a torrented mp3. um... they got what they wanted, what can one say.

 

Do not discuss torrents or similar forms of obtaining software. We do not allowed that here and I have edited several posts. Thank you.

 

Chaz: sure thing, i'd never recommend piracy (i hoped that it was clear from what i wrote), for a reason. i rather tried to stress that it's not only the legal part of it which may cause troubles. - anyway, getting the recovery cd directly from MS is the best thing to do in this case i guess, since at least w2k is still supported.

by the way, dwd, post back how quickly they're willing to post the cd or provide other way of support, i don't guess that i'd use it personally, but i'm curious... thanks

 

I'm not familiar with any "recovery CD". The W2K installation CD comes with a recovery console. It is possible to create your own recovery disc (actually, you only need a floppy that loads the low-level boot files and then switches to the %SYSTEMROOT% directory and continues loading) with the necessary files to get a broken W2K install working again. Is that what you are looking for?

 

You should be able to find recovery disks for old, old versions of a WinOS, but you'll have to pay a small fee for the disks (probably between US$30 to US$50).

It will in all likelihood be a third party other than Microsoft or the OEM for the system in question. Were I you, I would start with the manufacturer's support website (in any event, it's the manufacturer, not MS that supports any copy of a WinOS that was preinstalled) and see if the site has any links to a third-party source of recovery disks.