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RossTO
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 | | Subject: Re: The steam valve Wed May 30, 2012 9:47 pm | |
| Grrr... got a nasty blue screen on my notebook just now and won't reboot  Was able to get into the bios and am running a check on the system. I HATE it when this happens. The nasty thing is, all my work on my stamp collection is on there  _________________ Ignorance isn't bliss... it is just ignorance.
Current collections; Canada, GB, Australia, & New Zealand (all years). France & Switzerland (to 1970)
Embryonic collections; British Empire, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and the following up to 1970 Germany & Austria. |
| | | | youpiao
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| | Subject: Re: The steam valve Wed May 30, 2012 10:32 pm | |
| I've got to say, since my first computer in 1986, a TRS-80 Model IV, I've never had a hard drive crash, never had a blue screen of death, never a catastrophic data loss. The worst thing I've encountered, so far, is with my last computer before this current one, I think the power supply was going south. In the middle of a session it would spontaneously combust reboot. I got a new system and transferred everything, and then deep-6'd it before anything major happened. From what I've read, it is inevitable; it WILL happen one day. So far, though, I've been lucky.  Tedski |
| | | | RossTO
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| | Subject: Re: The steam valve Wed May 30, 2012 11:21 pm | |
| Well it is still not rebooting and it appears the hard drive has some corruption. NOT a happy camper right now _________________ Ignorance isn't bliss... it is just ignorance.
Current collections; Canada, GB, Australia, & New Zealand (all years). France & Switzerland (to 1970)
Embryonic collections; British Empire, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and the following up to 1970 Germany & Austria. |
| | | | Bear
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| | Subject: Re: The steam valve Wed May 30, 2012 11:24 pm | |
| aww man.... that sux!! _________________ Happy Stamping!!
Bear |
| | | | RossTO
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| | Subject: Re: The steam valve Wed May 30, 2012 11:30 pm | |
| Thank god I still have the PC as well as my back-up notebook. Guess I am going to have to take it into the shop and see what they can do with it.
Funny, I was considering a new one in the fall. _________________ Ignorance isn't bliss... it is just ignorance.
Current collections; Canada, GB, Australia, & New Zealand (all years). France & Switzerland (to 1970)
Embryonic collections; British Empire, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and the following up to 1970 Germany & Austria. |
| | | | RossTO
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| | Subject: Re: The steam valve Thu May 31, 2012 5:32 pm | |
| Well, it is pretty much official. I have a new large paperweight. Will be taking it in to Best Buy in the next few days and will see if they can recover the data from the hard drive. All I can do no  _________________ Ignorance isn't bliss... it is just ignorance.
Current collections; Canada, GB, Australia, & New Zealand (all years). France & Switzerland (to 1970)
Embryonic collections; British Empire, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and the following up to 1970 Germany & Austria. |
| | | | skilo54
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| | Subject: Re: The steam valve Thu May 31, 2012 6:10 pm | |
| That is a huge drag man, I feel for ya. That happened to me about 7 years ago and I wasn`t able to recover anything. I really hope you have better luck than I did.
I use a Dell Laptop, it has had a few weird moments, but overall it is a good laptop. I have had the typical issues with installing other hardware and software, but that is to be expected a bit with a PC. I am used to these little hang-ups at this point, and don`t waste too much time working them out usually.
I got Little Red a Mac this past Christmas, and I must say that I am a bit envious, and sneak on it between the hours of 4-5am with my morning coffee. I am still getting used to it, so it seems unfamiliar, but I really like that thing, everything just works, straight away, no hassles.
Fingers crossed for ya, 
Skilo54 |
| | | | RossTO
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| | Subject: Re: The steam valve Thu May 31, 2012 6:28 pm | |
| Well as of right now I am recreating some of what I had on the notebook to the PC and will be going from there. Look at it this way... I get to start over with my Stamp Inventory program set up and customization  One thing this has forced me to do is kickstart my butt into gear getting MS office reinstalled onto the PC _________________ Ignorance isn't bliss... it is just ignorance.
Current collections; Canada, GB, Australia, & New Zealand (all years). France & Switzerland (to 1970)
Embryonic collections; British Empire, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and the following up to 1970 Germany & Austria. |
| | | | Bear
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| | Subject: Re: The steam valve Thu May 31, 2012 9:24 pm | |
| no not MS!!! get open office its free and works WAY better has more options and did i mention its free open source? just go to http://www.openoffice.org _________________ Happy Stamping!!
Bear |
| | | | youpiao
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| | Subject: Re: The steam valve Fri Jun 01, 2012 4:18 pm | |
| Okay, where's that steam valve . . .  It must be behind this wall. Man, I've been on an austerity program the last couple of paydays, saving my mad money, holding back on stamp purchases, so I could buy a nice large country lot, or splurge on an expensive stamp (like that Algeria 1+9 we saw in another thread). So what happens? I go out this morning and find my driver's door window has fallen down into the door; I need a new window regulator. All it will cost is $263. $263. I don't have to tell any of you what I could have made better use of with $263. Bear, how's your plumbing, now? Tedski |
| | | | Bear
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| | Subject: Re: The steam valve Fri Jun 01, 2012 4:27 pm | |
| plumbing fixed at this point but we are keeping the floor of the basement open to replace the rest of the line as funds become available...
sorry about your window man... _________________ Happy Stamping!!
Bear |
| | | | RossTO
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| | Subject: Re: The steam valve Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:17 am | |
| Well, handed the notebook over to the other half on the weekend and was able to switch out a drive so now have an older drive on there that works. The locked up drive was only corrupted and was able to recover most of the data on there including the stamp collection data  Breathing a little easier right now. _________________ Ignorance isn't bliss... it is just ignorance.
Current collections; Canada, GB, Australia, & New Zealand (all years). France & Switzerland (to 1970)
Embryonic collections; British Empire, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and the following up to 1970 Germany & Austria. |
| | | | Bear
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| | Subject: Re: The steam valve Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:20 am | |
| ok that is wonderful!!! glad it all seems to be working out for you mister!! _________________ Happy Stamping!!
Bear |
| | | | clintd
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| | Subject: Re: The steam valve Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:27 pm | |
| Don't mean to sound like a pain in the butt, Doesn't anyone back their data up anymore? |
| | | | RossTO
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| | Subject: Re: The steam valve Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:47 pm | |
| I am supposed to, but never seem to get around to it _________________ Ignorance isn't bliss... it is just ignorance.
Current collections; Canada, GB, Australia, & New Zealand (all years). France & Switzerland (to 1970)
Embryonic collections; British Empire, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and the following up to 1970 Germany & Austria. |
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