Three year old drive -
Experience says it's time to replace it,
unless you have adequate backup and recovery processes ready, and tested
There is a reason for most manufacturers to limit warrantees to 3 years.
And remember - if you have to pay more to have the warrantee on a drive
extended from 1 to 3 years, then
you are paying the extra for the probability of needing a replacement drive,
not for a drive that is liable to last longer
My backup plan -
1) I need an OS that works
backup copy of OS on an alternate ( old 10Gb ) drive, and as Ghost /
Acronis images on DVD
2) I do not want to have to type in all my stuff again
all those word docs, spreadsheets, database entries accounting package,
emails etc.
3) I can install any special hardware drivers again from CD
(update firewall, AV, system management utilities, etc. - Nero
included )
4) I can re-install the applications from their CD's
( and redo the patches )
5) I have notes (on disc, and paper) of what I installed,
where to, and what specialisation I did during, and after the installs
But if you backup everything - that's OK too!
But I was really annoyed to find that I had stuff that only installed under
win95,
(old scanner printer and plotter)
and win95 would only install as an upgrade to win3.1
and that was upgrade from 3.0
and that wanted Dos 6.2
and that was an upgrade from 6.0
which was an upgrade from 5
so - I ended up with a 500 Mb 'DOS' type partition with basic disk
management stuff on it as the boot partition,
booting to DOS, WIn95, Win98, Win2K, or WinXP
but that was a long, frustrating story for the previous PC
JimB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Dykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: Operating System Not Found Error
> When I opened the message, I found that James Button had written:
>
> > Back up your data
> >
> > Back up your data again
>
> > and then later - Back up your data again, again
>
> Back up data? What's that <smile>.
>
> Actually, I have a 2nd HD and a small usb drive.
>
> Usually, I backup EVERYTHING. How do you just back up the
> data? Do you just backup all files with certain extensions or
> what?
>
> > The problem may be a spurious error reading the drive,
> > or it may be the first indications of the drive, memory, PSU or
motherboard
> > failing
>
> All my system is probably three years old....got it back when 1.5
> Ghz was pretty much standard.
>
> Thanks for your help, Jim.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>
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