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Jul 29, 2015. This problem is a documented in the VirtualBox manual. When installing Windows 2000 guests, you might run into one of the following issues: Installation reboots, usually during component. At this point SATA support is present so I moved the.VDI to a SATA controller and Bingo, no more I/O errors! Perfectly without the need to install any drivers. Guest-OS Windows 2000. The Internet in Windows 2000 VirtualBox VM. Untouched images from.

Do you want to create a bootable USB drive containing Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10 installation files to avoid creating multiple bootable USB drives? Would you like to install Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10 from the same USB drive? If you said yes to above questions, you have come to the right place.

In this guide, we will show you how to create a bootable USB drive containing Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 installation files to install XP, 7, 8/8.1 and 10 from the same USB drive.

Things you need:

# Windows XP ISO file or DVD

# Windows 7 ISO file

# Windows 8/8.1 ISO file

# Windows 10 ISO

# 16 GB+ USB flash drive

Install Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 and XP from same USB drive

Step 1: Connect your 16 GB+ USB flash drive to your PC and backup all data before proceeding further, as the drive will be erased while making it bootable.

Step 2: Head over to this page and download the newest version of WinSetupFromUSB zip file. Extract the zip file to get WinSetupFromUSB folder containing separate executable for x86 and x64 versions of Windows.

Step 3: Depending on the version of Windows you’re running, double-click either on WinSetupFromUSB.exe or WinSetupFromUSB x64 to launch the software.

Step 4: Once WinSetupFromUSB is launched and running, select your USB pen drive under USB disk selection and format tools section (see picture) and select Auto format it with FBinst option. Also select FAT32 as file system instead of NTFS if you want your multi-boot USB to be compatible with both BIOS and U/EFI.

Step 5: Skip this step if you don’t want to add Windows XP files to the USB. Select the check box under Windows 2000/XP/2003 Setup and then click the browse button to browse to the i386 folder in your Windows XP DVD or ISO file. Note that if you have the ISO file, you need to mount the ISO file using a third-party software in Windows 7 or using the built-in Mount feature in Windows 8/10.

If you’re on Windows 7, we suggest you go through our how to mount an ISO file in Windows 7 guide for detailed instructions.

Once you have selected the I386 folder, proceed to the next step.

Windows 2000

Step 6: Next, select the check box under Windows Vista/7/8/Server 2008/2012 based ISO, click on the browse button and browse to location where you have saved your Windows 7 ISO file. Select the ISO file and click Open button.

Step 7: Now that you have chosen to add Windows XP and Windows 7 to the USB drive and make it bootable, check the Advanced options box to open Advanced Options dialog, select the option titled Custom menu names for Vista/7/8/Server Source. This will enable you add your own custom names to your Windows 7 and Windows 8 setups in the boot menu.

Once done, close Advanced Options dialog.

Step 8: Finally, click GO button. Click on the Yes button when you see the Warning messages. If you have selected Custom menu names for Vista/7/8, you’ll see a small dialog box asking you to enter custom name for Windows setup. Enter a name and click OK button to allow WinSetupFromUSB begin its job.

NOTE: We’ll add Windows 8/8.1 to the USB in the next step.

Step 9: Once done, you’ll see Job done message on the screen. Don’t close WinSetupFromUSB yet as we have yet to add Windows 10 or 8 installation files to the USB. And if you don’t want to add Windows 8/10 files, you can stop the procedure here and close the application.

Step 10: In order to add Windows 8/10 installation files, select the option titled Windows Vista/7/8/Server 2008/2012 based ISO and then select your Windows 8/10 ISO file (make sure that the same USB drive is selected).

Step 11: Enable the option titled Advanced Options and then select Custom menu names for Vista/7/8/Server source.

Step 12: Finally, click the GO button. Click Yes button when you see warning dialogue boxes and enter a name for the setup when you’re asked to do so. That’s it! Your bootable USB containing Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8/10 should be ready in a couple of minutes. Good luck!

Once done, you can connect the USB drive to your PC or any other PC on which you want to install Windows XP, Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1, and then boot from the USB. You’ll see the following screen, where you need to select the Windows setup that you would like to start.

And if your PC doesn’t support booting from USB, please refer to our how to boot from USB even if your PC doesn’t support booting from USB guide.

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Windows 2000 Virtual Machine

Windows 2000 Professional can be useful for running older legacy software that is incompatible with newer versions of Windows. It is very easy to install Windows 2000 Professional in Oracle VM VirtualBox, running within Windows XP,Vista or 7.

Installing Windows 2000 In VirtualBox

Creating A Virtual Machine For Windows 2000 Professional

The first thing needed is a copy of Oracle VM VirtualBox which is available for free online. Next, you will need either a Windows 2000 Professional Install CD, or perhaps a disc image backup of your original CD, as well as the activation key. Once you have all of this, we’ll need to create a new virtual machine in VirtualBox.

Click ‘New’ at the top left of the VirtualBox virtual machine manager window. You can name your new virtual machine anything you wish but if you name it after the operating system you will be installing on it (in our case Windows 2000), it will automatically select Microsoft Windows as the ‘Operating System’ and Windows 2000 as the ‘Version.’ These two settings simply help the wizard tool to assist you in creating the virtual machine.

Proceed through the wizard tool, accepting the default recommended amount of RAM or choosing a larger or smaller amount for your own needs. You will be asked to create or choose an existing virtual drive image to use with your new virtual machine. This is simply a large file (in the size of a few gigabytes, 4 GB as is default for Windows 2000) that acts as a virtual hard drive for the operating system and any programs to be installed on.

You will be asked to select a virtual hard drive type and whether the virtual disk will be dynamically allocated or of a fixed size in nature. Simply go with the default image type. As for whether to use dynamic or fixed allocation, choose fixed allocation. If using dynamic allocation, the virtual hard drive can grow in size (but won’t shrink when the extra space is no longer needed) as necessary, but can become fragmented and affect the virtual machine’s performance. You can, again, choose a larger or smaller fixed size drive, however I highly recommend 2 GB at the very least if you choose to go for a smaller virtual hard drive than 4 GB. Continue through the wizard until you have completed the creation of your new virtual machine.

Installing Windows 2000 Professional In VM

Install Windows 2000 Professional In VirtualBox

Now, we are finally ready to boot our virtual machine and install Windows 2000 Professional. Select your virtual machine and click ‘Start’ in the top left of the VirtualBox virtual machine manager window or double-click the virtual machine to launch it. When you first start your new virtual machine, you will be greeted with a ‘First Run’ wizard. This wizard will help you select your installation CD or CD image. If installing from a CD, select the proper drive on your host computer. If using a CD image instead, browse to the location of the image and select it.

Complete the ‘First Run’ wizard and your virtual machine will proceed to boot from the installation CD or image. Setup will begin to load and will eventually reach a point asking you how you wish to format your blank virtual hard drive. You have the option of formatting with either the older FAT or NTFS file systems. FAT is really only useful for drives that will be shared with older versions of Windows (that don’t support NTFS) or Linux. Choose NTFS and allow Setup to format the virtual hard drive.

After the virtual hard drive has been successfully formatted, Setup will then copy installation files onto the virtual hard drive. Once this is complete, Setup will cause the virtual machine to reboot. At this point, you may need to eject the installation CD (or unmount the cd image) if your virtual machine attempts to boot and run Setup again. The virtual machine must boot from the virtual hard drive to complete setup. Once it beings this process, you may reinsert the install CD or remount the image. From here, Setup will guide you through the process of setting keyboard layouts, the date and time settings as well as creating an administrator account and joining the virtual machine to a workgroup or domain.

Once you've finished the Setup process, Windows 2000 Professional will proceed to boot to the desktop.

This article is accurate and true to the best of the author’s knowledge. Content is for informational or entertainment purposes only and does not substitute for personal counsel or professional advice in business, financial, legal, or technical matters.

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• I have a valid Windows 2000 Professional CD install disc. I am using the Oracle VM VirtualBox. When I get to the Windows 2000 Licensing Agreement on installation, nothing happens when I press F8=I agree. The ESC and PAGE UP works, but not the F8. I tried installing again with no luck.