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finno 
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 Topic: HELPPosted: 30-May-2008 at 09:12 |
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Tried turning on pc at home this morning, and it wouldn't work. The black screen comes up which says it cant start and offers a number of options. windows normal, safe mode, last configuration.... No matter which option I select it just keeps restarting and goes to this screen. Any suggestions? |
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Black Russian
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Posted: 30-May-2008 at 09:21 |
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Hmmmmm Finno You may have to reinstall that. Do you have anything on that you need to backup i.e. photos music files etc etc??.. Had a laptop with the same problem in work and thats what I ended up doing with it.
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Posted: 30-May-2008 at 11:17 |
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I've had that but safe mode normally works for me!! A friend yesterday was in a terrible state as when she went to hers which she works from home on all her icons were different (like old icons) and he wow link for the internet was gone! Pete any suggestions on that one? I tried to have her do a system restore but no dates highlighted for her. |
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finno
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Posted: 30-May-2008 at 11:33 |
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Have my photos and music on external hard drive. so hopefully they will be fine.
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Black Russian
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Posted: 30-May-2008 at 11:46 |
Finno If you have a back up done of your files there is a couple of things to try.... 1. If you have XP Emergency Recovery Disks you could try that.(I think you can create these during an installation. 2. Try Recovery Console/Repair from the XP cd. I have never really used that tool and sometimes its easier and quicker to reisntall from scratch 3. or do a full reinstallation of XP, During the installation it will ask you do you want to format the partition or leave it intact. If you leave it intact you should hold on to your drivers and software. It may give you the option to install it into a new location ie C:WINDOWS.000 if it gives you the option to install it in Particular folder just in stall in C:\WINDOWS Any problems you can give me a buzz... Just doing up my invoice for you now  Hope you have a big walletP could do is reinstall XP |
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Black Russian
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Posted: 30-May-2008 at 11:47 |
Teresa It sounds like her Login Profile might have got corrupted. If its her work PC I wouldn't like to suggest to try anythinng other than ring teh IT Helpdesk... They won't be as nice as me though |
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finno
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Posted: 30-May-2008 at 16:14 |
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Thanks Pete will try that
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Posted: 30-May-2008 at 20:37 |
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Pete,
Many thanks for your assistance. Had to use recovery disk. but now in process of reinstalling a lot of software (or maybe nows the time to reconsider what I want and dont want). Got firefox and now here - will pop back later |
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Black Russian
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Posted: 31-May-2008 at 11:52 |
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No probs Finno, you jinked me my pc is on the blink and I might have to do the same too
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Posted: 01-June-2008 at 13:30 |
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Advice to all
Big lesson learned make sure you do a regular back up. Luckily I had music and photos on an external hard drive but not documents and hadnt backed them up in a while. Sorry Pete will buy you a coffee/pint next see you. |
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Posted: 02-June-2008 at 13:07 |
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thanks for that advice Finno. Just one thing - how do you do a back up (regular or otherwise) for us not so computer literate as all of youse |
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Black Russian
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Posted: 02-June-2008 at 13:47 |
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Best and Easiest way to back up is , Photos, Documents, music files, movies, etc etc. is too either 1. Copy them to CD or DVDs, all the above can be copied 2. Get an external drive and copy them on to it. What I do with my music is I have a folder for new music I get and I put the new music in there and also put it on to the backup and then copy it alphbethically 3. Memory sticks are great There are other ways to back up your whoe pc and programs. |
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Posted: 02-June-2008 at 13:47 |
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Finno do you know the name of the files yo have lost ??? |
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Posted: 02-June-2008 at 15:02 |
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Finno, Thats really annoying - It happened me a few years ago - lost everything. I now back up everything every few weeks. how I lost it we were hit by lightening and while I had the computer through a surge protector I didn't have the phone line - All the phones in the house were fried along with the computer so an expensive lesson. Hope you got all your files back. Les, if you have something like "nero" on your computer it is very straighforward you can save all to DVD, CD or Zip which ever suits you.
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Posted: 02-June-2008 at 22:00 |
Lesley, Theres also a "back-up" option for your files with the Norton 360 antivirus software package, just in case of a worst case scenario. Just click the button, and it stores your stuff in a secure location. Does take a good while though, maybe leave it to work overnight. |
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Posted: 02-June-2008 at 22:38 |
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There are also versions of linux which can run from CD or a USB stick. These are ideal for starting up a machine and copying files across in situations like this.
See http://www.knoppix.org/ |
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finno
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Posted: 03-June-2008 at 00:03 |
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Have the name of a couple of the files. found a few since that I had included on the external drive so have recovered some that need updating but not others
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Posted: 03-June-2008 at 20:39 |
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Finno - Do you still have your old Cannon ??? If so, you are more than welcome to the one I found - the bits might fit in and there are quite a few lens with it - let me know ok ?
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finno
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Posted: 03-June-2008 at 20:44 |
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Yes still have it. Would be delighted to take the canon off your hands to cannibalise if you don't want them.
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Posted: 14-June-2008 at 20:53 |
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Delighted Finno - will send on a pm now - have been away so just see the thread now.
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