HELP - SQL Server 2000 Install Files needed urgently

Hi!

I have a large project that is due to complete this week. In order to
complete it I need SQL Server 2000 installed on a remote server. My
disk is corrupt and to order another media disk would damage my
deadline. I have the licence and serial key, but now need good install
files. I am even ready to buy another retail box, if I can find a
supplier that would give me a download site for the media, while I wait
for the shipment!

Please PLEASE help!

Regards,

BarryHi,

Sorry if i'm stating the obvious - but it wasn't commented on in your
post.. If you have the licence and serial key shouldn't you be
contacting Microsoft?

Greg|||Hi Greg. They will send me another media disk, but that doesnt help me
getting it installed for tomorrow.

Thanks for your reply.

Barry|||"TheFoot" <workshop@.carib-sys.com> wrote in message
news:1112918510.565481.327210@.g14g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> Hi Greg. They will send me another media disk, but that doesnt help me
> getting it installed for tomorrow.

Unfortuantely I doubt most anyone here would be comfortable putting binaries
out there to be copied. Even if you're totally legit, MS would have a field
day if they found out.

Sorry.

> Thanks for your reply.
> Barry|||"TheFoot" <workshop@.carib-sys.com> wrote in message
news:1112918510.565481.327210@.g14g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> Hi Greg. They will send me another media disk, but that doesnt help me
> getting it installed for tomorrow.
> Thanks for your reply.

Oh, one other thought.. may be too late by an hour or two, but a couple of
places like PC Connection on the East coast used to have a "order by
midnight and get it the next day" policy. MIGHT have luck with them.

> Barry|||I agree with Greg, nobody's going to "lend" you the SQL Server binaries
based on the premise that you're entitled to them - too much personal
risk.

I see two options:

1. Delay the project and wait for the shipment
2. Incur the extra cost for the "retail box" and hopefully charge it
back to the business|||Download the eval and then upgrade later.

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/evalua...ial/default.asp

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David Portas
SQL Server MVP
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