Woe is me. My Windows XP PC appears to be totally borked. Advice?
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cesare
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Glad you've sorted it - it's so time consuming and stressful.
I've had 3 HDs fail in the last year, and as I keep being reminded by those in the know, it's not a question of 'if' - it's a question of 'when'.
Some useful info on this thread for other people when it happens to them (whether it be HD, driver, video card or whatever).
I've had 3 HDs fail in the last year, and as I keep being reminded by those in the know, it's not a question of 'if' - it's a question of 'when'.
Some useful info on this thread for other people when it happens to them (whether it be HD, driver, video card or whatever).
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
my pleasure. don't worry, i don't want any money or anything, this one is one da house.......|
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
oh lighten up man. it. was. a. joke. ffs. 
do you have a sense of humour in wales like.....
do you have a sense of humour in wales like.....
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hiraethified
Nurse! My sides!
With jokes like that you oughta be on the stage.
It leaves in ten minutes
joke © Bob Hope 1947
Bob_the_lost
Elsewhere
Odd, what Vid card you using?
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hiraethified
ATI Radeon X800 Pro. It's more than a couple of years old and it had been disagreeing with Roxio DVD Premier for some time.
Thing is, I work as a reviewer so my machine has had no end of crap thrown at it for years and seeing it's on for around 17 hours a day, I can't complain if it starts to show a few wobbles after so much faithful service.
It's been a right pain in the arse though and now that it's all up and running, Windows Update is demanding a fucking restart - and I'm fearful of trying to reboot after last night's antics.
*gulp
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
Do remember the non-destructive re-install. Always worth doing if your machine has software issues
http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=189400897&pgno=1
http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=189400897&pgno=1
Piers Gibbon
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v glad you got it sorted..horrors. Have just been through a crash (human error?) at my webdesigners that meant 3 whole years of my blog entries were deleted. The problem was that nobody spotted that they had been deleted for a couple of weeks..by which time the stupid back-up system had deleted the useful back up (pre crash) and overwritten it with a stupendously useless recent backup of the now-much-smaller blog. Thank the lord the designer who did my site two years ago had kept a backup...(and I have just sent him a cheque)
I've also just spent a large amount of money on a one terabyte Time Capsule which backs up cumulatively, wirelessly and non-destructively...and I'm really really really hoping that means my backups are kosher now. I suppose I should also buy a one terabyte extra hard drive to back up the Time Capsule and keep that at my Mum's in case London gets nuked but my paranoia budget is all spent this month.
I've also just spent a large amount of money on a one terabyte Time Capsule which backs up cumulatively, wirelessly and non-destructively...and I'm really really really hoping that means my backups are kosher now. I suppose I should also buy a one terabyte extra hard drive to back up the Time Capsule and keep that at my Mum's in case London gets nuked but my paranoia budget is all spent this month.
Piers Gibbon
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oh yeah Time Machine..that's the one...if you say it is awesome then I guess it's doing what I'm hoping it's doing...I can certainly use the TM wireless network with a Vista machine but have no idea whether it can back itself up on it. As you say there must be a PC equivalent as it's not like it's doing anything especially voodoo. I spent the whole of yesterday in a frothing cursing rage because of the backup horror so I'm really hoping to avoid that in the future.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I got a 500gb external which mirrors everything, most important stuff on DVD and most uber important in my hotmail.
The main problem is remembering to do it.
The main problem is remembering to do it.
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
I got a 500gb external which mirrors everything, most important stuff on DVD and most uber important in my hotmail.
The main problem is remembering to do it.
That's the great thing about time machine. as long as the drive is plugged in, your complete computer backup is never more than an hour old.
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hiraethified
Windows programs like Shadow Copy have been around for years.
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
revol68
what, fucking what?
To think my housemate thought I was an overeacting hysterical loon for swearing everytime quicktime loaded itself up in the middle of playing Total War. I knew that programme was an evil.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Don't use it then. There are alternatives
if you are constantly testing stuff on your computer try using Virtual PC. Microsoft have been making downloadable images of XP and Vista available for some time for free. Get them here.
Not sure it would work with internal hardware tests but it should be clever enough to handle USB peripherals that need drivers and what not.
Its great to be able to try and deliberately trash/experiment with windows then just delete the disk image and copy the original back from a DVD. A quick experimental search on Bitorrent will also get you Virtual Disks for pretty much every version of Windows since the steam engine.
Not sure it would work with internal hardware tests but it should be clever enough to handle USB peripherals that need drivers and what not.
Its great to be able to try and deliberately trash/experiment with windows then just delete the disk image and copy the original back from a DVD. A quick experimental search on Bitorrent will also get you Virtual Disks for pretty much every version of Windows since the steam engine.
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