Computer Know How

[vicco27]

I remember recently reading threads that talked about computers crashing and people losing all kinds of stored info pictures, files, folders, etc. We had our computer crash on the Th to the point it wouldn't even restart, all we were getting was a blue screen.

We had knowledge of a small computer shop locally (Practical Computers Inc.) a husband & wife with a couple of employees, anyway they have been around for a long time. We took seven years of our life to them in a dead tin can on Monday the Th and and got it back on the RD with a like new hard drive, double the memory and all of our stuff we thought was lost is still there, and we have the old hard drive if they missed anything (they said bring in the old hard drive and they would find it). Yes it cost $150,00 to have it fixed. If I would have installed the new $45.00 CD writer two weeks before the computer crashed (it crashed while putting the CD writer in) we would have had the capability to save things to disc so we wouldn't have been taking a chance on losing them later. Live and learn. Put a disc writer in your computer so you can download your memory's.

 

I hope this will give some of you a reason to smile as I'm sure there is a computer repair shop that can save your memory's too.

[bongobobny]

Yes indeed rule 1 is back up EVERYTHING! I strongly advise the use of external hard drives. They are getting cheaper and cheaper. As a matter of fact, Target just had a 500G unit for around $90 this weekend...

[BOO]

Thats cheap. I had quotes of 1,000 plus dollars a few years back to recover information from my hard drive. I have never had it done and someone here on the forum sent me a recover disc but this thing just stopped spinning.

I now run two hard drives and one on software called ghost. Of course I have had no problems since doing that.

My business was on the drive that quit so I have lost a lot of records but of course the pictures were more important to me then anything else.

Like the man said "BACK IT UP"

Jerry

[rod]

I bought a cheap program a few years back after a crash. It is called Handy Recovery and I got 90% of my files back. It was slow but it did the job. I have used it to retrive pics off the camera media that was corrupt too. It cost around $25. I bought an external HD and now back up my drives. Rod

[SilvrT]

I remember recently reading threads that talked about computers crashing and people losing all kinds of stored info pictures, files, folders, etc. We had our computer crash on the Th to the point it wouldn't even restart, all we were getting was a blue screen.

We had knowledge of a small computer shop locally (Practical Computers Inc.) a husband & wife with a couple of employees, anyway they have been around for a long time. We took seven years of our life to them in a dead tin can on Monday the Th and and got it back on the RD with a like new hard drive, double the memory and all of our stuff we thought was lost is still there, and we have the old hard drive if they missed anything (they said bring in the old hard drive and they would find it). Yes it cost $150,00 to have it fixed. If I would have installed the new $45.00 CD writer two weeks before the computer crashed (it crashed while putting the CD writer in) we would have had the capability to save things to disc so we wouldn't have been taking a chance on losing them later. Live and learn. Put a disc writer in your computer so you can download your memory's.

 

I hope this will give some of you a reason to smile as I'm sure there is a computer repair shop that can save your memory's too.

 

Backing up is extremely important...it's like having insurance.

 

As for the cost you mention above and the "blue screen", I would suggest there wasn't a lot wrong with the hard drive but rather, the Operating system files became corrupted. A "blue screen" will not appear if the hard drive is not working at all. If it is spinning, then it's accessible. It's when it's not spinning and not accessible when it costs a lot of money to recover stuff from it.

 

You're lucky you have this shop and they are honest & reasonable...some places would con you into a new PC, printer, the works! .... you got a good deal!