Help again

[jafacakes]

My computer is back , more or less as it should, much to my relief. Still don't understand what happened,but thank god for tech heads. I've been tediously putting all my stuff into the external hard drive to give it a little more life but basically it is on it's last legs, not surprising since it's at least 7 years old. So far I haven't found a way

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[gunhilda]

Sorry, I'm not going to much help with computer issues, I'm afraid. But it's good to see a post from you!

[jafacakes]

Aww,thank you, it made my day that you noticed :-) Access to the net has been very patchy,I have so much to catch up but I saw you have a new fic and just had to read it! Loved it!

[uhsir]

Sorry I'm so far behind on my flist. Just now seeing this.

Did you try this on your start menu:
Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and then click Backup.

You might have to be logged into the Administrator account to see that.

[jafacakes]

No, don't apologize, it's so kind of you to help. As it happens I hadn't found this, had tried all the help menus and none gave this advice :-) I have done it, took almost a day but it's all backed up on the extrnal drive now, thank you. Only a mistake, at the end it told me to insert a floppy disk on drive A to download something,maybe start up? and as I didn't have one tried to do it to a cd and not only didn't it work the window closed down ... something to sort out tomorrow :-)

[uhsir]

In case you didn't get to it yet, (click here) for how you can create that floppy without having to go through the backup process again.

Another thing I was thinking is whether that external drive has backup software? Even if it did but you lost the disks, you might find the software on their website.

Or there is free software. I use Macrium Reflect Free. (click here for info) It makes a complete "image" of the entire disk. You also make a "Linux Rescue CD" that you use to boot and restore. It's what I do when my computer starts acting wonky.