About a year ago, a friend of mine brought his computer over for me to fix. It originally had WinME on it, however when he presented it to me, it had Win2K Pro. He said he got it from the IT Guy at work. However, he had a critical program that simply wouldn't run under Win2K, so I had him buy XP and everything was A-OK.
He told me to keep the Win2K, since he had paid "good money" for it. I declined at the time, simply because I didn't have any need for it.
Anyways, he recently had a massive heart attack and died. A few months later, his wife called and said his system had died, too. HDD went south and I offered to fix it, but she said she would rather have a new system, so I hooked her up with a Dell deal.
She gave me the old system, along with the Win2K disk. I dismantled the old HP and parted it out, but wound up with the Win2K disk.
My question is, is this disk legal and is it legal for resale? I don't have much in the way of details of where it came from, except what he said before he died. I do know it isn't being used on the computer it was on.
This is a description of what I have, the disk says Win2K Pro OEM for one or two processors. It's obviously a MS CD, since it's got all the holograms that it should. The thing that leaves a question in my mind is that it came in a plain paper sleave with only a sticker type label on the back of it that has the COA or VLK.
Does this sound right? I've never dealt with a MS OS that only had a sticker label like that. I this common for Win2K Pro OEM or should I be concerned with the validity of this?
Thanks, Rick
He told me to keep the Win2K, since he had paid "good money" for it. I declined at the time, simply because I didn't have any need for it.
Anyways, he recently had a massive heart attack and died. A few months later, his wife called and said his system had died, too. HDD went south and I offered to fix it, but she said she would rather have a new system, so I hooked her up with a Dell deal.
She gave me the old system, along with the Win2K disk. I dismantled the old HP and parted it out, but wound up with the Win2K disk.
My question is, is this disk legal and is it legal for resale? I don't have much in the way of details of where it came from, except what he said before he died. I do know it isn't being used on the computer it was on.
This is a description of what I have, the disk says Win2K Pro OEM for one or two processors. It's obviously a MS CD, since it's got all the holograms that it should. The thing that leaves a question in my mind is that it came in a plain paper sleave with only a sticker type label on the back of it that has the COA or VLK.
Does this sound right? I've never dealt with a MS OS that only had a sticker label like that. I this common for Win2K Pro OEM or should I be concerned with the validity of this?
Thanks, Rick