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- Apr 12, 2004
My girl has been having problems with her computer. She has had the original install of ME on her computer since she got it new years ago. It is to the point where she could not scandisk or defrag. I have been telling her to reformat, but she has lost all her disks to the computer.
Long story short. She has been having problems with accessing her email and things of that nature. She decides to reboot and the computer comes up to a black screen saying system32 error....etc. She didn't copy down the message so I can't give it to you exactly. I told her it sounds like her OS has finally crapped out on her and she needs to reformat. Is this her only option? She has been told she can hook up the hard drive to another computer and recover her files and I told her if her OS is corrupt there is no chance in that. Can she save her data by doing this?
I told her I think it is time for a new computer in general...she will be starting to work on her PhD in the fall and this computer is way too old. She says she wants to get a laptop as her main rig so she can be mobile. I tell her to me that is not a good idea(she is kinda clumsy), they tend to be more tempermental than a desktop. They are much better as a secondary rig. What do you guys think? Would you trust your PhD data to a laptop that you are carrying aroud with you all the time?
Long story short. She has been having problems with accessing her email and things of that nature. She decides to reboot and the computer comes up to a black screen saying system32 error....etc. She didn't copy down the message so I can't give it to you exactly. I told her it sounds like her OS has finally crapped out on her and she needs to reformat. Is this her only option? She has been told she can hook up the hard drive to another computer and recover her files and I told her if her OS is corrupt there is no chance in that. Can she save her data by doing this?
I told her I think it is time for a new computer in general...she will be starting to work on her PhD in the fall and this computer is way too old. She says she wants to get a laptop as her main rig so she can be mobile. I tell her to me that is not a good idea(she is kinda clumsy), they tend to be more tempermental than a desktop. They are much better as a secondary rig. What do you guys think? Would you trust your PhD data to a laptop that you are carrying aroud with you all the time?