07-27-2009, 08:04 PM
I'm still putting this box back together from it's meltdown last week. We dragged it's carcass up to Falcon computers in Waimea and in twenty minutes it had a new power supply and new memory chip. I then took it home to reload the operating system but once the hardware was working again, that was easy enough. Of course, now it has forgotten a lot of things so I've been reloading all sorts of stuff again. Falcon would have loaded the system, but we were there a half hour before closing on a Saturday so I would have had to have come back the next Monday so we finished it at home.
Just in case anyone needs to know, when you reload the Windoze operating system, it will wipe out everything on your desktop as well as in "My Documents" file. All the emails and address book data from Outlook is also toast. So, storing things in files on your desktop is not a good place to stash stuff. Storing things in a file directly off the hard drive is a safe place for stuff to be when re-installing a windows operating system. Fortunately, the hard drive had been backed up two weeks before the meltdown so the losses were not anywhere near as bad as they could have been.
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Kurt Wilson
Just in case anyone needs to know, when you reload the Windoze operating system, it will wipe out everything on your desktop as well as in "My Documents" file. All the emails and address book data from Outlook is also toast. So, storing things in files on your desktop is not a good place to stash stuff. Storing things in a file directly off the hard drive is a safe place for stuff to be when re-installing a windows operating system. Fortunately, the hard drive had been backed up two weeks before the meltdown so the losses were not anywhere near as bad as they could have been.
Kurt Wilson
Kurt Wilson