boo hoo :(

[Nick Minall]

Its not just the data its installing all the software again that’s a pain 😕

hope you sort it out mate.

[Shane Drew]

quote Nick Minall:

Its not just the data its installing all the software again that’s a pain 😕

hope you sort it out mate.

so true, so true… think I better have another drink….

[David Rowland]

argh… it anoying considering you was helping Michael out the other day Shane.

[Colin Waite]

Has the hard drive failed completely?
Sometimes you can get a temp fix by putting the HD in the freezer for 20 minutes, never guaranteed but does work.
Recommend getting a NAS server or hard drive and double save all your work.

[Shane Drew]

quote COLIN WAITE:

Has the hard drive failed completely?
Sometimes you can get a temp fix by putting the HD in the freezer for 20 minutes, never guaranteed but does work.
Recommend getting a NAS server or hard drive and double save all your work.

:lol1:

I actually run a backup machine on the network and I wasn’t too worried in truth, but for the life of me, I can get every other machine to talk to mine now, except the damned backup server 👿

Oh well, tomorrows another day, and only a phone call away from an IT guy I know. 🙄 What is a service call anyway… its only money 😕 🙁

[David Rogers]

I had a ‘zero’ down time approach for a year or so. A second machine sitting under the bench / in a cupboard ready to roll with all the software & drivers pre-installed. As all of my work is stored on a server so it really is just plug in a few cables & a dongle and go….

pretty handy when your’ve been ‘tweaking’ and it goes "’orribly ‘orribly wrong" – and that rush job is needed it half an hour. 😳

Dave

[ccheater]

You should get a copy of ghost, look it up on google. when your PC is built ghost an image and keep it safe, back up your data regularly,If your Pc goes belly up just reghost it and put your databack and away you go, (I’m a network Engineer)

[Shane Drew]

quote ccheater:

You should get a copy of ghost, look it up on google. when your PC is built ghost an image and keep it safe, back up your data regularly,If your Pc goes belly up just reghost it and put your databack and away you go, (I’m a network Engineer)

Thanks for the tip…. got ghost yesterday after being advised by my IT guy.

Cheers

[David Rowland]

ghost is all very well but each PC with XP on takes all the details of like CPU, Harddrive, Motherboard and so forth so if you ghost an image and then move it to another bit of hardware, Windows XP ‘should’ complain about being moved as your windows XP license is normally OEM (comes with the computer and for the life of the computer).

Ghost is a great tool and I use Acronis, but it really only works well if your installing back on the same pc with limited change in hardware.

[David Rogers]

quote Dave Rowland:

ghost is all very well but each PC with XP on takes all the details of like CPU, Harddrive, Motherboard and so forth so if you ghost an image and then move it to another bit of hardware, Windows XP ‘should’ complain about being moved ……..

Make that "XP WILL complain bitterly about being shoved into another machine / having significant hardware changes.

’98 & ME were great for just dropping any old HDD into any machine & after 10 minutes of re-configuring itself – away it went!! XP – nightmare, might not actually let you in to do anything (it did this to me a couple of weeks ago)…. Well done Bill G., another giant leap forward…. 🙄

[ccheater]

I did mean on the same PC

[Shane Drew]

quote ccheater:

I did mean on the same PC

all my PC’s are very similar anyway, but I know what you mean about Windows.