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Posted: 31 Jan 2007, 16:56
by ianhind
The famous "Windows Recovery disc" is intended to put you back where you started when you first bought the PC. Avoids the need for the supplier to let you have a full copy of Windows :think: I wonder how many naive punters realise that?
But it usually does this by restoring a partition image so all of Drive C is effectively wiped.
A rather extreme measure since all that additional software for Windows (eg FS2004) is going to need to be reinstalled. Hopefully the data was on Drive D.
Posted: 31 Jan 2007, 18:18
by DaveB
Unfortunately Ian, I realised this all too late. It effectively destroyed 2years worth of trading on our business pc. They're more trouble than they're worth and no mistakin' :axe:
ATB
DaveB :tab:
Posted: 31 Jan 2007, 23:51
by Myles
I suppose it's too much to hope for that the manufacturers will ever realise that people don't like losing all their data just because Windows goes belly up?
It's just too easy for them to make one big partition for everything, rather than split the drive in two - one partition for the OS and apps and the other for user data, with the 'My Documents' folder already ported over.
Sorry to hear about your problems with the Mesh, Tony. My main machine is also a Mesh, and has given me very little trouble over the last four years. I've even managed to maintain a truce between the Radeon 9700 graphics card and the Asus P4G8X motherboard, which have compatibility issues! Mind you, I had nothing but trouble with the Evesham that preceded it.
Maybe every company occasionally suffers fron 'Fridayafternoonitis'!
Best,
Myles
Posted: 01 Feb 2007, 08:26
by tonymadge
Yes I agree I think these things are great until they go wrong! I found their telephone help line a bit useful but when he suggested reloading windows to cure a problem with device manager, I thought that was excessive. I fixed it myself without reloading..I had two somputers listed under computer in device manager. I disabled "standard pc" and updated the driver for ACPI comoputer then enabled it. It powers down fine now.
The only other snag was on boot up it shows windows XP twice and windows set up. But I have made the first one default and disabled the option to choose which one you want. So now it should boot up and down nice and quick!
Took a long time to get this sorted but the one good thing is I have been into the settings a lot and learned a lot
So at the moment I have my PC running quicker than I have ever had it!!!
a silver lining to the cloud I guess
