Barmy I am useless sorry I cant help you but will bump this thread hopefully someone can help you

thanks hun - I've been a bit 'not around' just lately - hopefully will be back - all guns blazing tomorrow night

do you mean a repair disc?

Yes you can, carry on using. Best bet is to invest in a external hard drive, I have everything on my computer back up on it, if every you crash you dont lose anything.

hi everyone, what I mean is - my computer was 'sort of' loading up (windows vista), I've only had it for about 10 weeks. I got the option of starting windows normally or doing a repair. I tried both options SEVERAL times throughout the day (changing boot-up, starting in safe mode, safe mode with networking, system restore, last known good config etc) - EVERYTHING I tried, seemed to keep 'hanging'. Like I said, I EVENTUALLY gave up, because it seemed that basically I needed a recovery disc (which I dont have). The PC was left running whilst I was watching something or other, I just left it and went about my business. EVENTUALLY I went to turn it off and use my daughters laptop (she was now in bed), and I notice the 'light' flickering on the PC, so I shoved the mouse to get out of standby - and lo and behold, the bloody thing is working!!!! First thing I did was attempt a backup disc (all three of them). I purposely used rewritables so that I can hopefully use them again)?????

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Originally posted by Hyjean:
Yes you can, carry on using. Best bet is to invest in a external hard drive, I have everything on my computer back up on it, if every you crash you dont lose anything.

hi there - thank you for your reply - how much do they cost then? What connection do they use, and can I back up more than one PC on them???
Thanx

External hard drives vary in price, anywhere from about £30 to several hundred (you will probably pay about £60 for a good one). They use USB connections generally, and what you can back up is only limited by the size of the hard drive. There are some good ones on www.ebuyer.com.

Least I think that is correct, feel free to listen to someone else.

You can re use rewritable disks..cos they are just that, rewritable. However you should really dump the data from the disks onto another computer. To do this create a folder on your desktop (or wherever you want to do this) and insert the rewritable disk and drag the contents into your new folder.

Create 1 folder for each of the disk and don't forget to label the disk correctly.

Finally delete the data from the rewritable disk and you can now reuse it.

thankyou puppydoodoo and queenshaks for the above. It is most useful!

one more question...
should I buy an externa hard drive and then 'dump' my back-ups onto IT??? Seems like the best solution to me?

That would be a good idea Barmie.

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Originally posted by Hyjean:
Yes you can, carry on using. Best bet is to invest in a external hard drive, I have everything on my computer back up on it, if every you crash you dont lose anything.

For the small price of £50-60 too.

i crashed an lost all my music (