---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment NBrian Trout wrote: >> Hi list, Any of you computer types out there care to offer an >> opinion? I'm typing this on a new laptop computer. I love it. It's >> 3 times the computer my old one (only 1 1/2 years old) is/was. I'd >> really like to retrieve some of the old information from my old >> computer, but I'm not sure I can. Basically, it has begun hard >> drive failure, and most of the information that I would like to >> access is there on the hard drive. It will boot up, but it will not >> run Windows, even in the 'safe' mode. I've tried running the >> Scandisk program that was onboard, but it keeps finding errors it >> can't fix. When it gets to the disk scan, it keeps finding sections >> of the hard drive that are "about to fail" and moves the info to >> another part of the disk. And talk about slow... the Scandisk >> program files tell me that it 'should' take about 10 minutes for a >> disk scan... it took 4 hours to go through 10% and then quit because >> it couldn't handle the job. Anybody have any suggestions? Do you >> think a program like Norton utilities or another similar program >> would be able to help me? or is it too late? I've been a bad boy >> for not backing up my work earlier. I'm thinking of replacing the >> hard drive on the old computer, and perhaps looking into a zip drive >> for a little more secure backup. I'm also in the market for a >> program like Norton utilities, or a similar product. But I sure >> would like to have some of that old info... The upside is, now I >> have a portable computer and can play with the Tunelab program I >> downloaded!! Anyway, if you have an idea, thought, suggestion, or >> note of sympathy, I'm receiving them all with open ears. :-) >> Thanks, Brian TroutQuarryville, PAbtrout@desupernet.net > Brian.... Dont assume its a hard drive problem unless you have a puter expert look at it and tell you it is. There are several situations that can look just like a hard disk failure and turn out to be something completely different. Sometimes the processer can actually be screwed up in such a fashion that the condition you describe above exists. Take the thing into a puter shop and have it looked at Richard Brekne I.C.P.T.G. N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/be/84/e4/ea/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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