Am experiencing major problems with the computer after a massive crash a couple of days ago so I'll be out of action for a while till it is sorted. Managed to salvage most of my pics and work but have had to go back to Vista on my older computer and am having problems with internet and skpe, as well as the fact that Vista only supports IE9 and although I have the latest Firefox it still gives me problems. Hope to get it all sorted soon.
Hi Bittern On your Vista PC do you have a working DVD recorder and some blank DVD's. If so try and download and burn to disk Linux Mint Live DVD. On your crashed PC, just boot from the Live disc (don't install the OS), and connect an external drive, providing you haven't encrypted the drive then there is a reasonable chance you can read and copy the files from your PC's hard disc to the external drive. Any live disk will do but Linux Mint will feel more like Windows. Paul
Hi Paul. I did manage to get all my important stuff off of the drive. It wasn't so much as a drive crash but a general failure somewhere in the system. I have now managed to get it going again on XP but I need to get in and fdisk the drive. Several partitions have somehow managed to get onto it and I want to get the drive back to just one partition. I used to use a win98 start up disc but as the machine hasn't got a floppy drive I will have to copy it onto a cd and try that. In the interim I managed to get hold of an Acer Aspire laptop with Win 7 intalled so I'm using that until I can get the others sorted out. At £70 it was a lot cheaper that taking the pc to a repair shop.
What's the spec of the PC ? and what software are you needing to use ? If you have over 1GB of ram, and preferrably dual core then you could try here for Win 7 licences https://ukpcworld.co.uk/?gclid=CjwKEAiAr4vBBRCG36e415-_l1wSJAAatjJZlZP_kpr7bdG2IqYN8xFYi6oD7PxcYVT3lauSTtxtzBoCQcfw_wcB But for older hardware may be worth looking at one of the Linux options, I'm using Linux Mint - debian version 32bit on my IBM thinkpad T42p manufactured in June 2004, and a pair of eeePC 701's, takes a bit of getting used to but runs all the apps I need for my model railway - JMRI. Paul
Hi Paul The PC in question is an Advent (the mini one). 350GB drive, 2x 2500 chips and 4 gb ram, It orignally came with win7 on but that was taken over my microsoft and upped to win10. It had been really slow for a while so I should have guessed all was not well with it. can't seem to find a way into it to change the drive but I'm working on it At the moment I'm back on line and so I should be posting again soon
