[nunners]

I've got myself into a right old pickle with my laptop.

A few weeks ago i updated win 2000 pro to service pack 4. During this it appears i had lost a few essential files in the process so i could not reboot. After agonising i decided to just reinstall the OS as did not have loads saved on it.

Well i have done this but now don't seem to have much left. Its installed win 2000 pro but i cannot get connected to the net. It does not detect the internal modem. Also i seem to of lost most of the MS office software - word, excel from the desktop but i can open them from the C:\ drive.

I do not have any toshiba disks as it was secondhand

Stuck !

Can anyone help/suggest what i have done.

[office politics]

it doesn't detect at all? check the device manager and see if you have any unknown devices or devices with a yellow exclaimation point icon. If you don't then run add/find hardware in the control panel and run a search for new componets. If it still doesn't find it, then there's a problem with the hardware. Take it out and reseat it, double check any jumpers, and loo at the contacts to see if they're still good.

If the device is there you're gonna have to download a new driver from the manufacturer's website. If its small enough you can copy it to a floppy, otherwise you'll have to find someone with a cdburner and copy it to cd

about office. right click the exe's, mouseover send to and click desktop (create shortcut)