Computer Joy!

rich17865 · 29th December 2012, 17:45

After nearly 2 weeks of being without a computer I have it back.

It is surprising how much you rely on the things when you are self employed and running two businesses from it! Good job it happened at a quiet period I suppose.

Plus while I am a Tapatalk fan, there is nothing like viewing the site in a webpage.

Jay160 · 29th December 2012, 18:01

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Originally Posted by rich17865

After nearly 2 weeks of being without a computer I have it back.

It is surprising how much you rely on the things when you are self employed and running two businesses from it! Good job it happened at a quiet period I suppose.

Plus while I am a Tapatalk fan, there is nothing like viewing the site in a webpage.

might be worth investing in a cheap back up laptop incase things go abit wonking

and regular back ups if you rely on it

Godfer · 29th December 2012, 18:05

So, what was the issue?

rich17865 · 29th December 2012, 18:06

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Originally Posted by Jay160

might be worth investing in a cheap back up laptop incase things go abit wonking

and regular back ups if you rely on it

Indeed!

We have two caddy based 1tb sata disks and perform twin backups every week, just this time we had done a lot of work and it crashed when we had finished. Our local computer guy couldn't fix it so it had to have the hard disk replaced so we could plug in the old disk to pull the data off it.

Computers eh? Don't you just love them!

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Originally Posted by Godfer

So, what was the issue?

Fubar, blame bill gates

mh007 · 29th December 2012, 22:13

I can't understand why that took 2 weeks !

Fitting a new hard drive & recovering/transferring data is pretty standard stuff.

I'm surprised it took that long to be honest.

Were there issues with getting your data off of the old drive perhaps ?

Dragrad · 30th December 2012, 00:47

Thread moved to appropriate forum. Re-direct left in old.

rich17865 · 30th December 2012, 07:40

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Originally Posted by mh007

I can't understand why that took 2 weeks !

Fitting a new hard drive & recovering/transferring data is pretty standard stuff.

I'm surprised it took that long to be honest.

Were there issues with getting your data off of the old drive perhaps ?

Yes, lame I agree, won't be using them again.

They were trying to fix the problem without formatting the original drive and couldn't.

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