Good to be back.......

[BLAHMAN]

My computer crashed.....YIKES!! Haven't been able to access this site or a while and it's good to be back online! :thumbsup:

 

[Huntinfool]

Don't ya hate it when that happens! Glad you made it back.

Chuck

 

[BLAHMAN]

Yup! Feels good to!

 

[musketman]

My computer crashed.....YIKES!! Haven't been able to access this site or a while and it's good to be back online! :thumbsup:

Poor Blahman, I've been there before as well...

Did you go through forum withdraws? :crackup:

 

[GobblerKnob]

That happened to me a year or so ago and I lost everything I'd ever stored on it. I lost 3 years worth of shop notes, correspondence, pictures of guns and calls, and family photos.
What was the most painful was losing pics of my kids growing up. They can never be replaced. :cry:
For those who have never experienced a computer crash, it's more aggrevating than the neighbor's barking dog. :curse:
Do yourself a favor and back up your system or save things to disks. If you don't know how, find out. It's well worth the trouble to do so. :m2c:
Rick

 

[2172]

after it happened on my first computer, I got smart and backed all of my stuff up on floppy disks...when I got my 3rd computer, a new Dell, I found it didn't accept floppies...lots of fun re-creating stuff..Hank

 

[roundball]

after it happened on my first computer, I got smart and backed all of my stuff up on floppy disks...when I got my 3rd computer, a new Dell, I found it didn't accept floppies...lots of fun re-creating stuff..Hank

Seeing this post, I realized I had not backed up since Thanksgiving and just did so...thanks !!...need to figure out how to set up an automatic backup job or at least an automatic reminder

 

I back my file up on a CD's .
I put a Cd Burner in my puter to do this with and one thing for sure, your puter will never be short of memory and it eliminates the need for all the floppy discs to copy all the files on.
Another word of reminder to do is also make an emergency boot disc. This can be done on a floppy and it sure saves alot of BS when trying to rebot if it takes the preverbial wrong track on ya.

Woody

 

[Rebel]

How do you go about making that Boot disc? Think i should have one of those. Thanks for any help.

 

[BLAHMAN]

My computer crashed.....YIKES!! Haven't been able to access this site or a while and it's good to be back online! :thumbsup:

Poor Blahman, I've been there before as well...

Did you go through forum withdraws? :crackup:

Dang MM! You come up with some pretty good stuff. I'll be laughing at that one for a week! :haha: :haha: :haha:

 

[BLAHMAN]

Oh I forgott.......I did go through withdrawls...boy is that tuff!

 

It's good to have you back BLAHMAN!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I'm sorry it takes so long fer'a blind man to know when anyone's "miss'n"!! :cry: :haha:

YMHS
rollingb

 

How do you go about making that Boot disc? Think i should have one of those. Thanks for any help.

Grab a floopy disc that's blank or doesn't have information on it.\Label it Emergency Boot Disc with a felt tip pen

Dubble-Click on the Control Pannel's Add /Rewmove Programs
you can laod the control pannel by clicking Settings in the Start menu

Click on Windows Startup Disk tab
it is usuallly all the way on the right at the top

Click the create button
after a few wierd noises it will tell you to insert a disk into drive A

Insert the disk and then click the OK button

Windows will format the disc and copy special files onto the disc

When finished the disc will allow you to start your computer in the worst situations.

Put The Disc Away In A Safe Place For Keeping And NEVER use the disc for any thing else again except for when you need it in an EMERGENCY
Pray you will never need it

In an emergency put the disc in drive A and push your computers reset button...... that last resort button.... thats one step shy of turning the power on/off

The computer boots off the floopy disc:... That is it comes alive even if your hard drive isn't working

When loaded from the flopy the computer will comes up in DOS prompt mode
It won't llok anything like windows
BUT!!!!!
Your friendly computer guru will now have a lot better chance by useing the DOS prompt as an avenue to fix what ever went hair wire on it.

Woody

 

[Rebel]

Thanks Woody,i tried to do it but when i click on the start tab, there is no settings tab. I double clicked on control panel and got into add/remove programs, but there is no create disc tab or the other tab you spoke of. I am running Window XP Pro. Does that make a difference? Is it different than the version of Windows your are running, and if so, will things be different do you suppose? Appreciate any help from you or anyone else. Thanks.

 

Yes it will be different for Win XP and I am not sure where it is to do it for XP wish I could help.
Maybe on a disc that came with the system I don't know for sure.

Woody

 

[Rebel]

Woody, we didn't get a disc with the computer since we had a friend of ours build it for us. Thanks anyway. Take care.

 

[vradin]

Woody, we didn't get a disc with the computer since we had a friend of ours build it for us. Thanks anyway. Take care.

Hey Rebel... Check this link for WinXP... Startup Disk info

Quoted article segment:
WinXP. If you're running Windows XP, the installation CD doubles as your emergency boot disk. Most systems capable of running WinXP are also capable of booting from the CD-ROM drive, so it's much easier to use the CD than to create and use a separate boot disk. If you purchased a WinXP system, however, you may not have received a WinXP CD. Many vendors opt to ship a recovery CD that restores your computer to its factory default settings (and trashes your personal data as well) in place of an actual WinXP CD. Needless to say, this greatly complicates recovery.

There is, however, a solution. Microsoft offers WinXP boot diskettes for systems that aren't capable of booting from a CD-ROM. You can use these diskettes as an emergency boot disk rather than relying on a WinXP CD-ROM. To download the setup diskettes, visit Microsoft's Support page (http://support.microsoft.com ) and search for Q310994. Click the Obtain Windows XP Setup Boot Disks link. Follow the directions on the Web page to create the setup boot disks. (You'll need six blank floppy disks.)

Hope this helps. Maybe we need a blackpowder conmputer forum too when they don't behave we can shoot the darn things.

vic

 

[Rebel]

Thanks for the info Vic. Will check into it.