@christino i haven't heard anything from you. what's going on @esquire men u just disappeared from nairaland like that. plz send me your no again

yo i need a big favour. i've been trying to download Win2k SP4 but it takes too long with my starcomms. could someone with a faster connection download it for me and burn it to CD, please?

http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/6/A/E6A04295-D2A8-40D0-A0C5-241BFECD095E/W2KSP4_EN.EXE

and how are u finding ur ubuntu don't forget visit gnome-look.org

guys help me. i used my pc yesterday and shut down properly only to want to use the pc now and it restarts once the windows logo comes up and start loading plz help me i have and exam this coming thursday on vb 6 and i need windows. could it be a virus? it won't even allow me to go to safe mode it keeps restarting

also yesterday i mounted the windows partition in linux but after that i wap still able to use windows i have un mounted it but still the same i don't have back up plz help me

wale that sounds like the same thing that happened when i had the brontok virus on xp. can u try accessing your windows partition thru linux?

yes i can even now am copying my files to linux

@rozilla& everyone plz its very important. i have an exam on thursday hw did u fix your pc

after copying my files my linux hard disk stopped responding and starts to make a lousy scratching noise am fed up

Sounds like the HDD is failing. Try to run a scan on it with the command

chkdsk /f

from another windows 2000/XP machine (u need to connect it as a slave disk)

my linux hard disk is back and am on it now. But windows keep showing me the same error telling me to choose those options and gives me a blue screen of death that last for barely a second

@ Adewale,

Download is almost done, issue is I need to get a pack of DVDs from Otigba tomorrow so I can distribute it.

i'm doing mimoh's concurrently too.

thnx my pc has become a night mare i just have to reinstall jare

Do you have a UPS, if you don't then you can't survive this. It's gonna come back!!!

i have a ups and it drives me crazy when it starts beeping in the middle of the night @mimoh i have a question about java does it have a gui like that of vb that allows u to draw the forms or do u have to code it out

It's like the port for IDM has been blocked by the ISP, i'm downloading on as little as 1kbps at times but on Opera, speed is fairly okay. THat's what's been delaying me, I waited thruout Wednesday so that I can complete one before starting another, but last night, I decided to take two downloads from the sun and now i'm scared I'll have to live with IDM this way. It's so sad.

Can anyone help on IDM?

Progress Report:

@christino have u tried changing the port settings of idm ? @mimoh have u fixed your ppp issue
@everyone is there a way of repairing windows without reinstalling ?

Haba, Christino, i have 5 free disks of dapper drake, i can snail-mail one to you. Have you heard of Ubuntu Shipit? they delivered tthe disks to my front door!

@adewale:
Yes. You should insert the windows CD and allow it to boot, like a normal installation but when it gets to "detecting previous installations of windows", it will tell you it found one instance of XP, do you want to repair? Just select yes and it will fix the troublesome thing, and preserve your files at the same time. Please try and do this with a UPS, or stable power supplty cos if it is interupted, the whole disk might be fsck'd up beyond all recognition.

@ Grid,

Where have you been all this while? It's not too late, but is yours the dvd version? I guess it is, how do we meet, which other cds do you have, meanwhile I need to conclude this download of a thing, i'll try changing the port address, but to what?

@ Adewale,

Grid just gave you the load down, please back up your hard drive, there's nothing as important as that, if possible, back it up on an Ipod.

hw can i back up when i cant get into windows i tried doing it with linux by modifying fstab and although i wap able to copy my files and that almost killed my linux hard drive. thanks guys i really appreciate this

@Christino:
I only oredered the CD version, because most of the people i intended to give don't have DVD drives. But its oK, I can send u one if you give me a postal address that NIPOST can locate. Wouldnt want to stress u in looking 4 my office.

@adewale:
If u have another windows [2000/XP] PC, connect the harddisk to it. Then you should be able to back up your stuff.

If your office is @ V.I. then gimme d no. If not gimme your phone num, i'm on YIM right now and hopefully will be fully online for the next 18 hours.

@ Adewale,

Do you hav a DVD drive?

no but i could get one sha mr do u have sumtin else in mind?

does anyone knows why the fonts look bold in openoffice? @mimoh have u been able to fix your connection issues?

@Christino:
I stay in dolphin estate, my office is there too.

how can we get 2 meet, so i can burn those on my laptop.

@ adewale

If i can get the cds from Grid, that'd be okay.

Thanks.does he have d dvd version cause i have enough of the normal version. so what happened 2d download?

See wot i'm going thru, diff speeds.

wow thanks i wonder why you have different speeds like what percentage is it now i can't see the image properly am on mobile