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Hmmmm.
If you get a matching CD to your current install you can do a repair like I said above.
If you can't get a CD you will have to use your recovery CD which will wipe everything....
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Hmmmm.
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If you get a matching CD to your current install you can do a repair like I said above. If you can't get a CD you will have to use your recovery CD which will wipe everything. My System: Hybr!d
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Ok cheers for that. So incase I have to wipe the lot. What's the best backup software and is there any good free or open source available?
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Just copy all your stuff to another drive and then copy it back once reformatted. No need for backup software really.
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I've been putting it off for a while but I'm going to have to get a new hard drive. Out of the 35gig I started with I'm now down to 2 and a bit which probably doesn't help the poor machine, otherwise it's a lot of cds.
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A hard drive is nothing, fit that, do the recovery and setup the old drive as a slave.
Cheapest HD on ebuyer is £30, to boot it is an Westen Digital and 80GB. http://www.ebuyer.com/product/23275 Another thing is to make sure you have drivers for the hardware inside the machine before you start. |
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80gig will be about the limit this poor old girl could probably handle. PC world do EIDE drives with humungus gigs for around £79 but I think that's wishful thinking for this old timer.
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PCW are very overpriced mate.
Get it online from ebuyer, dabs or such like. You will find 40GB drives are getting rare and as a result are more than 80GB drives. |
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