Looking for a copy of Windows XP

jamesrauser · February 7, 2020

I recently acquired in old XP machine from my job that didn't work. I discovered the psu went and in the process nuked the hdd. I was wondering if anyone had the install media for xp. Its only the media I need since on the case is the key. If nothing else if someone knows of an os that a Pentium 4 @2.66 GHz and 1256MB of ram can handle that would be great.

RandleMcmurphy · February 7, 2020

25 minutes ago, jamesrauser said:

I recently acquired in old XP machine from my job that didn't work. I discovered the psu went and in the process nuked the hdd. I was wondering if anyone had the install media for xp. Its only the media I need since on the case is the key. If nothing else if someone knows of an os that a Pentium 4 @2.66 GHz and 1256MB of ram can handle that would be great.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Download/confirmation.aspx?id=18242

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that's the 64 bit version, sorry.

Might try here https://archive.org/

hotbrass · February 9, 2020

Look here: https://www.youtube.com/user/mjd7999/videos

All flavors of XP and better than XP, but still XP!

perk0vic · February 9, 2020

Archive.org is a great source - if you've got the key it's not considered piracy. The key means at some point you bought a license (or it came with your PC).

Za69uzZ · February 9, 2020

i posted couple of xp's on archive.org without keys but with every damn driver from 2002 - 2014

kinda like i support software legacy but not piracy

a private message for a link but anyone can look for it there.

heck, i even added internet explorer 8 and media player 11

Roswell · February 9, 2020

XP works differently than later versions of Windows. If it's a machine that had volume licensing, you'll need need the corresponding disc image that accepts that volume license.

You're unlikely to find that, unfortunately. Probably better off just using a more modern Linux distribution for low spec hardware.