atw: Re: More tips
- From: Nigel Dawes <NigelD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 07:59:59 +1100
I too have encountered a number of problems similar to those you discuss.
The number of times I've reinstalled Windows is a joke!!
I must say though, that I've never lost any info because I constantly
backup.
Plus, I use three physical hard drives with a logical part on C:\
C:\ Windows only
D:\ Applications (logical)
E:\ My files
F:\ Backups
One problem I always encounter though, is restoring the registry.
And, it's not much fun reinstalling Visual Studio .NET every time something
nasty happens!
I thought a rescue disk with the registry option would fix this, but not so!
Rgds
Nigel
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Lewis [mailto:mlewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, 15 March 2004 5:32 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: More tips
Ilana Cohney:
> This is not really a tip but may be a good reminder to all of you
> (un)lucky
people like me who use windows xp. For the third time (I repeat), third
time in
the past two months, I have had to reformat my hard drive, due to a
corruption
of some sort, (each time it has been of a different kind).
I don't want to get into a "mine is bigger than yours" fight :-), but there
can be
extra layers on top of a corrupted hard drive. I've had a disaster with a
notebook PC running WinXP. Fortunately, I have a separate desktop machine
that I use most of the time, and I have good backups for that. BUT:
When my notebook hard drive developed a fault, it was in one of the driver
files
that WinXP needs to load at the very start. So I couldn't boot into any
state at all.
Sad, because that meant I couldn't retrieve the system image on another
partition. Still, not too bad; the machine came with a "Quick Restore" set
of CDs.
Huh.
A full reinstall from the QR set has left me with a very slow machine and
several problems that I've so far failed to overcome. I think the slowness
is
largely due to an incorrect driver for the screen; redrawing takes a long
time.
But I'm also suspicious of the disk speed, and I seem to have lost 8MB of
RAM.
Installation of InDesign 2 hangs, as does installation of the driver for a
digital
camera. I can't find the right driver for the screen, the touchpad, or the
add-on
wheel-mouse (which installed perfectly through Plug-n-Play under the
original
setup).
The hard drive corruption happened at least a month ago. Because I've had to
devote some time to students and clients, I've not been able to put enough
time
into fixing it, but I've still put in a lot of hours. I still don't have a
usable notebook.
Is there a lesson to be learned from this? Apart from making sure that you
have
another computer somewhere, I'm not sure. But I'm thinking very hard about
how to protect myself against a further problem -- always assuming I can fix
it
this time. . .
Michael Lewis
--------------------------------------
Brandle Pty Limited, Sydney, Australia
www.brandle.com.au
--------------------------------------
**************************************************
To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to
austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to
austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field.
To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with
"unsubscribe" in the Subject field.
To search the austechwriter archives, go to
www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter
To contact the list administrator, send a message to
austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
**************************************************
--
Message protected by MailGuard: e-mail anti-virus, anti-spam and content
filtering. http://www.mailguard.com.au/mg
**************************************************
To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to
austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to
austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field.
To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with
"unsubscribe" in the Subject field.
To search the austechwriter archives, go to
www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter
To contact the list administrator, send a message to
austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
**************************************************
Other related posts:
