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| Thread ID: 50174 | 2004-10-12 22:43:00 | WinXP-home+SP2 unregistered rebel | swan (2648) | Press F1 |
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| 280728 | 2004-10-14 09:35:00 | Dear POTUS, Thx 4 yr contining interest. As u can see fr my entry question (and "things I've already tried"), I have already tried making floppy then subsequently the CD into1st boot priority (entering the BIOS each time to do so - which Bill has not *yet* managed to stop me doing), in order to try out various CD Win installs and Norton's package as well as my Rescue Boot disks (the one u have to download from Bill). Nothing worked. I ALWAYS use my Maxtor 255G external to work from, "backing up" incrementally to whichever computer I am currently working from - so nothing of value rests on my desktop HDD - except hours of installing programs (the ext HDD is a bit slow for everything except email using Pegasus - which does reside on the Maxtor. So I am quite happy to FDisk the HDD if I have to. I will try a raw boot floppy and use my mostly forgotten DOS skills to explore if the dir files have not been shut down. |
swan (2648) | ||
| 280729 | 2004-10-14 10:53:00 | Boot up using a live distro like Knoppix or Mepis, mount the drive/partition and fiddle with the files from there as per the Snakefoot site or other suggestions. If you can access the CD from another machine copy whatever replacement files you need to make it work. If that doesn't do it, I think you have a BIOS or hardware issue. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 280730 | 2004-10-14 22:31:00 | Thx Muray P, Am just about to try finding Fdisk on the Win install CD |
swan (2648) | ||
| 280731 | 2004-10-14 22:48:00 | If you are paranoid about activation and privacy - do it over the phone - if you are REALLY paranoid drive to another city and use a payphone there, even put on a false nose and glasses, and call yourself Ira Goldstein - complete with the accent (as long as no one sees/hears you ... lol). Anyway, my point is that you can activate on the phone. All you need is your CD key and it's done. No questions about who you are and where you live and how many pets you have. J :D |
Jester (13) | ||
| 280732 | 2004-10-14 23:15:00 | > As u can see fr my entry question (and "things I've > already tried"), I have already tried making floppy > then subsequently the CD into1st boot priority > (entering the BIOS each time to do so - which Bill > has not *yet* managed to stop me doing). It sounds a little like anti-Bill paranoia has obscured commonsense. Logically XP Home would not prevent boot access via CD or Floppy, if it did (or could) there would have been an outcry here at PF1 long before now. You are not the first person to allow a 30 days period to expire, and MS would lay themselves open to massive class action lawsuits in the US if they permanently disabled every computer that had an unactivated installation of XP. If you remove the HDD completely from your computer you should still be able to boot from a floppy or CD so it sounds like time to go back to first principles. I assume you have checked both your CD and your floppy to see if they will boot in another computer? That seems an obvious first step. If they are proven OK, unplug your HDD (for no other reason than to satisfy yourself that it is not getting in on the act) the go to bios and set it to boot from the floppy. If that doesn't work you might have to consider the possibility of a fault in your bios or MB, assuming that your floppy drive is actually ok as well. Seemingly insurmountable problems usually get solved by surmounting the overlooked or the taken for granted. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 280733 | 2004-10-14 23:52:00 | Thx Billy T, I take yr suggestions re my problem, and will let u & the forum know the results of my surmounting. |
swan (2648) | ||
| 280734 | 2004-10-14 23:57:00 | Dear Jester, I AM Ira Goldstein - how did u know! Now I'm really freaked out! ...lol yeah - guess I'm being a little too paranoid - I'll give it a try |
swan (2648) | ||
| 280735 | 2004-10-15 00:40:00 | > Dear Jester, > I AM Ira Goldstein - how did u know! > Now I'm really freaked out! > ...lol > yeah - guess I'm being a little too paranoid - I'll > give it a try Oh well, call yourself "Chad .... Chad Valiant" :D |
Jester (13) | ||
| 280736 | 2004-10-15 00:49:00 | Oh Geez guys, c'mon now..... You've not heard of Voice Recognition? I know there's a phone number in the states run by a radio station, you ring it then hold your phone up to the speakers for 10 - 15 seconds then hang up. It'll then txt you the song artist/name within a few seconds. Now if they can use a technology like that...... Think people, its not anonymous! Call me paranoid, but the technology is out there to do that sorta thing, and you're one of the richest men in the world so why wouldnt you have it????? Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 280737 | 2004-10-15 01:28:00 | Why would Bill want to txt Chad Valiant Chill? You are getting a bit obscure there, or are you suggesting that Bill disables computers long distance? (With a nail gun???) As for the phone-back thing on the song, if the caller's number is displayed it can be decoded from the line signal as well, then it is but a moments work to recognise incoming audio instead of voice, compare to the outgoing audio, consult the computerised playlist and text back the details . Piece of piss and not even hi tech . Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
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