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From: carman
Date: 02-10-2005, 07:19 PM (1 of 5)
well i do not wish a hard drive failure on anyone, i have just experianced my first, and i hope my last. at least next time i will have an EXTERNAL BACKUP  in place. i have a Dell computer that thank goodness is under warranty and i must say, i called them monday morning and by tuesday morning they had sent someone here and installed a new and even upgraded ( 160g to a 250g) hard drive. the formatting started i thought i was ready to do the installing of ALL the programs again when i all you know what broke out, needless to say i went to bed that night vibrating i was so upset. when i was on intalling the drives with a tech on the phone two things happend that caused that chaos, one the internet was still connected(my fault) and the fact that they were telling me to install the wrong drives, grrr. i am runnning Media center xp professional , which now i know that we have no canadian support for and they transfer me to Tennesse, which does media center support for the States and not really for the canadians, THANK GOODNESS they helped me on wednesday morning, and we started from scratch AGAIN an this time it was smoooooooooooooth sailing  so now i am taking my old drive in to a tech retrival specialist to see if i can get any of my old files off the old hard drive  i thought i went through headaches when we got this computer in tranfering all my files from the old one to the new, but it least i HAD files it is a good thing i have good drugs for my knee and ankle ordeal, because i think i would have gone off my rocker in frustration  ahhhhhhhhhhhh thanks for the vent and do what i had not done yet and will have hooked up tomorrow INSTALL A BACK UP HARD DRIVE
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User: carman
Member since: 04-17-2000 Total posts: 692 
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 02-10-2005, 10:04 PM (2 of 5)
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I know how you feel...my husband (the geek) calls me the 'blue screen of death queen'. I can sit down at the computer, turn it on and it'll croak/die/weird out, whatever...it never fails....today it was the UPS (said the battery was dead) but of course when my husband got home, nothing was wrong with it....(me...everytime I turned the darn thing on it beeped, it's red light flashed and it wouldn't work) I've learned (in the past 20 yrs of being a computer owner, online freak) that the computer is NOT my friend, it hates me and I cannot do anything on it, except simple posts, e-mail and read...I figure I'm lucky I haven't put my fist through the screen....( not that I wasn't tempted....more than a few times..) I know my sewing/embroidery machines like me...so I guess the computer can just hate me... 
Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
Member since: 09-06-2002 Total posts: 2414 
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From: Hogmami
Date: 02-10-2005, 11:15 PM (3 of 5)
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I had a car that didn't like me. My exhusband bought a Ford. I could stand next to it and the tire would go flat. Or I would get in and it wouldn't start but it did for him. So guess what he got when we got divorced.
Carolyn
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User: Hogmami
Member since: 09-30-2004 Total posts: 800 
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From: Onehunga2002
Date: 02-11-2005, 02:39 PM (4 of 5)
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My DS said that with me computers are like an 8 year old boy, we are always fighting. Guess what we did when he was 8. Keep getting told to back up. Well I finally backed up the business program and the zip drive ate it. I can see it but it won't let me have it. I have almost finished re entering everything, should be done today but it have taken some serious hours away from sewing, quilting and knitting. Anne in Dunedin NZ Anne
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User: Onehunga2002
Member since: 02-01-2002 Total posts: 6 |
From: stitchmaniac
Date: 02-12-2005, 02:01 AM (5 of 5)
| My Dell laptop tanked last month. It is 16 months old. Some things...important things...like my embroidery files were backed up. Other things weren't. I pulled the harddrive and put it in the freezer over night and then back in the computer. It took a while, but it did boot up and I was able to download to CDs. In fact, I left it running for three days. Applications ran slower and slower and some stopped working at all, but it limped along until they delivered my new drive. I also double backed up my designs to a jump drive...love them, but you cannot trust them to be totally stable. Always use an external or CD...point is use SOMETHING. |
User: stitchmaniac
Member since: 11-05-2002 Total posts: 43 |
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