I'm back!

[Bob Denman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut0XTC33TEQ

After suffering a complete system meltdown last week: the new box just got delivered!
:2thumbs:

[Deanna777]

Where did you go??? :roflblack::roflblack::roflblack:


What new box did you get?



Deanna

[Bob Denman]

I'm not sure yet... but it's running Windows 10. :shocked:
The old 'puter seemed to get slow & lazy... Then it couldn't get Windows (7) to even start.
Without that: I couldn't even get help from remote diagnostics... :banghead:
Rather than continue the hatchet-fight: we just broke down, and bought a new one. :dontknow:

[Cavman]

Photos?

[ARtraveler]

Glad your back. It was getting a bit quiet around here. :yes:

[Grandpot]

That leave of absence must have put you at least 3,000 posts behind.:roflblack::roflblack::roflblack:

[Sarge707]

Windows 10 will try to rule your world unless you resist with determination.nojoke

[hypurone]

Rather than continue the hatchet-fight: we just broke down, and bought a new one. :dontknow: You can slave the old hard drive in the new system so you can attempt to recover files, docs, pics etc......:thumbup: I would recommend putting the old drive in the frig overnight before slaving it in... it can give you a few mins longer if the drive is indeed failing....

[Chupaca]

Wow you were gone two days....but it was getting slack here....:lecturef_smilie:next time give us a heads up....:roflblack:

[oldguyinTX]

Oh no, you lost all of your Avatars???154517 No worries, I can loan you some. BTW, hate windows 10, still getting along with 7. Still runs well and until it dies, I'm 'stickin with it.

[d.o.spyder-rts]

That leave of absence must have put you at least 3,000 posts behind.:roflblack::roflblack::roflblack:
:agree:, welcome back, missed your posts. Dale

[Bob Denman]

Oh no, you lost all of your Avatars???154517 No worries, I can loan you some. BTW, hate windows 10, still getting along with 7. Still runs well and until it dies, I'm 'stickin with it.
Worse than that: I lost ALL of my pictures, jokes, links to funny movies, and the list of sites that I frequent! :yikes:

[wyliec]

Worse than that: I lost ALL of my pictures, jokes, links to funny movies, and the list of sites that I frequent! :yikes:

It's water over the dam now; but, have you thought of backing up your data to an external hard drive?

My iMac crashed and burned a few months ago; luckily I had all data backed up to my external hard drive. I had panicked for a minute before I remembered I had it.

[oldguyinTX]

Worse than that: I lost ALL of my pictures, jokes, links to funny movies, and the list of sites that I frequent! :yikes:

Man, that bites. That's why you ALWAYS backup. I have a 1 TB external hard drive & I back up once a week. Or, you could backup in the Cloud.

[Spyder_Cowgirl]

Worse than that: I lost ALL of my pictures, jokes, links to funny movies, and the list of sites that I frequent! :yikes:

Bob ... I believe someone has suggested this already. If you have a local computer shop, you can buy a cheap USB case for your old drive and then plug it into a port on the new machine. Since you are just going to read data from the drive, this should work .... that is unless the drive itself is bad.

I am limping a 12 year old computer through Windows 10 and having some interesting challenges -- either my second monitor is not available or my antivirus doesn't start on first boot up (always have to do a restart to get both). I actually have an old drive from a previous computer hooked up as described above and it works well for keeping backups. Additionally, I find I occasionally need a file from that drive that I neglected to migrate years ago .... has paid off to keep it active.

Hope it is the guts of the computer (CPU, or mother board) that is bad and not the drive ... then you will be able to at least access the data.

Good luck .... Ann

[Pirate looks at --]

Worse than that: I lost ALL of my pictures, jokes, links to funny movies, and the list of sites that I frequent! :yikes:
Hmmmmmmm.........maybe it was those sites that you frequent that cost you your hard drive!:clap:

[UtahPete]

Man, that bites. That's why you ALWAYS backup. I have a 1 TB external hard drive & I back up once a week. Or, you could backup in the Cloud.

Me too. But, I recently discovered it died some time ago and there's no way to access the backup files. Need a cloud backup solution soon before my main hard drive fails and I lose everything.

[Pirate looks at --]

How bout a pic of that new puter?:clap:

[Machinegunner]

They switched me to windows 10 without my consent. I hate it, seems to be harder to do what ever I did before.

[Bob Denman]

Bob ... I believe someone has suggested this already. If you have a local computer shop, you can buy a cheap USB case for your old drive and then plug it into a port on the new machine. Since you are just going to read data from the drive, this should work .... that is unless the drive itself is bad.

I am limping a 12 year old computer through Windows 10 and having some interesting challenges -- either my second monitor is not available or my antivirus doesn't start on first boot up (always have to do a restart to get both). I actually have an old drive from a previous computer hooked up as described above and it works well for keeping backups. Additionally, I find I occasionally need a file from that drive that I neglected to migrate years ago .... has paid off to keep it active.

Hope it is the guts of the computer (CPU, or mother board) that is bad and not the drive ... then you will be able to at least access the data.

Good luck .... Ann
Thanks for the tip! :thumbup:
The corpse is still down in the basement; I'll pull the hard drive out of it before disposal...

[IdahoMtnSpyder]

Me too. But, I recently discovered it died some time ago and there's no way to access the backup files. Need a cloud backup solution soon before my main hard drive fails and I lose everything.
That's why I've decided not to take anyone up on a super deal for a 2 or 4 Tb drive. As someone said there are two kinds of hard drives, those that have failed and those that will fail. The bigger the hard drive the more you lose when it craps out! We need to go back to the practice 30 years ago in the early days of PC with 5" floppy disks, grandfather, father, son. Three backup media and rotate them each time you make a backup. Do I do it? No. Someday I'll be sorry too, probably! :banghead:

[Bob Denman]

Mine was a 2 TB; was... :banghead:

[wyliec]

That's why I've decided not to take anyone up on a super deal for a 2 or 4 Tb drive. As someone said there are two kinds of hard drives, those that have failed and those that will fail. The bigger the hard drive the more you lose when it craps out! We need to go back to the practice 30 years ago in the early days of PC with 5" floppy disks, grandfather, father, son. Three backup media and rotate them each time you make a backup. Do I do it? No. Someday I'll be sorry too, probably! :banghead:

What do you think the chances of your computer's hard drive, and an external hard drive crapping out at the same time? I'd say it was pretty slim.

[hypurone]

That's why I've decided not to take anyone up on a super deal for a 2 or 4 Tb drive. As someone said there are two kinds of hard drives, those that have failed and those that will fail. The bigger the hard drive the more you lose when it craps out! We need to go back to the practice 30 years ago in the early days of PC with 5" floppy disks, grandfather, father, son. Three backup media and rotate them each time you make a backup. Do I do it? No. Someday I'll be sorry too, probably! :banghead:

SSD is the way to go if that is what worries you. Even if you manage to reach the max number of writes per sector, it still remains viable as a read only device. Can't remember the last time I saw one fail due to a bad controller. ....

[DGoebel]

You guys bust me up. I remember external hard drives for backing up, and folks who couldn't recover their data from them....

One Word Carbonite, never lost any files since, no pictures, no favorites, no bookmarks, no docs lost ever, Its all there waiting for you when you trust Carbonite to always backup your data without ever forgetting.

It's kinda like guys quibbling over saving $20 on their $15,000 - $30,000 Spyders

[Bob Denman]

Carbonite? Can you tell us all a little bit more about this service? It sounds... interesting! :thumbup:

[wyliec]

Bob D. must be going thru a learning curve on his new computer. He's still not posting much.:)

I've thought about Carbonite in the past. I just don't like the idea of a third party on my computer.

[Bob Denman]

:shocked: I liked Windows 7 Pro much better... nojoke