OT: Windows Backups [was: OT: Dell support]

[Bob Stockler]

Top post . . .

I have two Windows XP Pro computers, an IBM ThinkPad and an IBM
NetVista.  They both have ThinkVantage "Rescue and Recovery",
which is so simple and easy to use that it's almost impossible
to avoid using it.  It's saved my butt a couple of times (not
because of crashes, but some stupid things I'd done).

I think enough of the ThinkVantage technologies stuff that if I
ever buy another Windows computer it will probably be one from
Lenovo (and probably one of the refurbished ones that are great
bargains).

Bob

Richard Kreiss wrote (on Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 10:44:49AM -0400):

| One of my neighbors called me after spending an hour with Dell tech support.
| 
| Her computer appeared not to be booting passed the post.  All that would
| come up was the Dell Logo thing. 
| 
| The tech support person had her unplug her flat panel monitor from her UPS
| and plug it directly into the wall outlet.  After plugging and plugging the
| monitor and doing other things, he concluded that either the processor was
| bad or she had bad memory.
| 
| Oh, by the way, she did tell them at the start that the monitor was smoking
| before she turned it off and shut her system down.
| 
| I had her bring the computer to me.  I plugged in one of my monitors and low
| and behold, like magic, it came up.  
| 
| This is her work computer and she was thankful for only having to replace
| the monitor.  Since she wanted to get a larger monitor then the 17" one she
| had, I advised her to get a video card rather then using the onboard shared
| memory video along with the new monitor.
| 
| Installed everything yesterday and she couldn't be happier.
| 
| However, it looks like there are gremlins in the community, another
| neighbors computer crashed Wed. night.  I need to see if I can get the data
| off the hard drive which was not backed up.  This is one of our board
| members and there are 3 years worth of documents on that drive.  If can't,
| I'll probably have to scan all of these or at least the most recent onto my
| system and then burn them to a Cd or DVD.
| 
| I think I need to set up a community training course on how to backup ones
| computer.  Granted most people won't do it anyway.
| 
| Richard Kreiss
| GCC Consulting
|     
| 
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