Windows XP Professional.
Check the Url for more details:
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/evaluation/sysreqs/2000/default.asp|||Yes, it can run on XP Pro. I have done it before.|||Thanks, I have downloaded evaluation edition on XP. To Pjmcb: do you mean you run the full version on XP Pro?I can get free software from my college but they would not give it to me without Server OS(which they are out of + I would need to change OS)|||I have ran the Standard Edition of SQL Server 2000 on XP Pro and 2000 Pro, no problem.