Laptop repair tips

[velu samy]

WARNING! Running system restore utility will erase all personal data
on the hard drive and re-image it back to factory defaults. Make sure
all personal data is backed up before reinstalling the operating
system. Also, make sure the laptop is running on AC adapter power
during the recovery process.




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http://www.laptoprepair101.com/
click the link

 

[Robbie Hatley]

"velu samy" wrties:

WARNING! Running system restore utility will erase all personal data
on the hard drive and re-image it back to factory defaults.

[Is this on-topic for this group? Hmmm. Sort of. A computer repairman
could run into this issue. Ok, I'll bite.]

A "system restore utility" will not necessarily erase everything on a computer.
That depends very much on what "system restore utility" you're using.
(There are many, by hardware makers, OS makers, and third parties.)
It's important to research what the one you're about to use will do,
before using it.

Make sure all personal data is backed up before reinstalling the operating
system.

A good safety measure, provided that you have the time and disk space.

But really, as long as you don't repartition or format the disk during OS reinstall,
you'll loose no data (unless hardware severely malfunctions, and probably
not even then). Just remember that when the OS-install dialog asks you
"Erase existing file system?" (or words to that effect, depending on OS),
answer NO. Keep existing file system. That way, only the OS files get
overwritten. Your program files will still be there, but will no longer
work; you'll have to reinstall all OS updates first, then reinstall all
programs before any of them will actually work again. And your data
files (txt, doc, jpg, avi, etc) won't be touched.

Complete OS reinstall is actually rarely needed, even for severe problems.
About the only time I ever had to do that was when I got infected by a
really, really bad virus that embedded itself in every single exe file
on the entire computer, including OS files, program files, program
installation files, etc. I had to do the following:
1. remove all instances of virus (quite tricky)
2. back up all plain data files (doc, txt, mp3, flac, jpg, avi, etc)
3. erase all existing partitions
4. make new partitions
5. complete reformat (overwrite every byte with formatting character)
6. reinstall OS
7. DL & install all OS updates
8. reinstall all software
9. copy all data back to disk

A big bloody hassle, let me tell you. To be avoided at all costs, if possible.

Instead, it's usually better to trace problems to their roots and fix the roots.
The web, Usenet, and talks with computer-savvy friends are all useful for this.

Taking a software or OS or virus problem to a computer repairman is not a
very good idea, though; they tend to want to just repartition and reformat
your disk, and reinstall the OS. That leaves you a computer that technically
"works", but has no software and no data. So it's usually better to fix such
problems yourself.

click the link

I'll pass, for now. I might check those out later.

--
RH

 

[JeffM]

Robbie Hatley wrote:

Is this on-topic for this group?

The fact that you don't recognize 123maza as an extensive spammer

demonstrates that you are new to Usenet.

I'll bite.

Here's a real tip for you:

Instead, try READING Usenet for a while BEFORE posting.

 

[Robbie Hatley]

"JeffM" writes:

Robbie Hatley wrote:

Is this on-topic for this group?

The fact that you don't recognize 123maza as an extensive spammer
demonstrates that you are new to Usenet.

Illogical. Premise does not imply conclusion. Example: "The fact
that President Obama is a black man demonstrates that Tiger Woods
ate lasagna for lunch last thursday". No it doesn't. Even if the premise
and conclusion are both true, the implication is not valid. In the case
of your implication, your premise may be true, but your logic is
fallacious and your conclusion false.

Here's a real tip for you:
Instead, try READING Usenet for a while BEFORE posting.

No, I think that's a complex tip, not a real one,
3.45bogons @-54.5deg (cw) from positive real axis.

I've been "reading Usenet" since around 1996. However, I tend not to
memorize categorizations of people. I'm not an SJ type so concrete
categories are not my primary metal faculty. As an INTJ, my primary
mental function is introverted intuition. So I tend to reply to the
contents of what people say, rather that to their reputation. (I generally
neither know nor care much about people's reputations.)

By contrast, some people are much more interested in reputations than
content. For example, I note that your reply is actually a non-reply reply,
in that it does not agree-with, refute, or even mention any of the actual
contents of what I said, but instead lauches into a purely ad-hominem
line of reasoning, based on an attempt to assign "guilt by association
with persons of known bad reputation". This is SJ reasoning. That's
not my temperament. I'm NT, not SJ.

Research "MBTI" and "INTJ" for more on this. And read David Keirsey's
book "Please Understand Me". And check out chapter 10 of Carl Jung's
book "Psychological Types". These should give you some inkling as to why
people behave in ways you don't expect and don't like, and why attempting
to badger them into compliance with your expectations is generally futile
and serves only to give you ulcers.

--
RH

 

[Phil Hobbs]

Robbie Hatley wrote:

"JeffM" writes:

Robbie Hatley wrote:

Is this on-topic for this group?

The fact that you don't recognize 123maza as an extensive spammer
demonstrates that you are new to Usenet.

Illogical. Premise does not imply conclusion. Example: "The fact
that President Obama is a black man demonstrates that Tiger Woods
ate lasagna for lunch last thursday". No it doesn't. Even if the premise

*plonk*

 

[Jeff Urban]

Had PC Angel on one. It did pretty good because it backed up all the
files from the Documents and Settings directory. It was on a separate
partition though. It could concievably format and restore all files.

However, I had one case in which hal.dll was corrupt or missing. Even
formatting didn't work for whatever reason, I had to repartition the
drive which did lose everything. I keep as little as possible on the
boot drive now, and use the smallest drive for it. In fact it is just
about time to move somemore stuff that I DLed............

Also note that when I used the restore dink with the PC Angel
partition intact it worked fine until the last time, when that
partition is not there, you lose. It didn't even have the sound and
video drivers ! I got gypped. So I had to DL all that. What good was
the restore disk now ? All it did was install XP MCE SP2 and some
antivirus I didn't want. Trial offers of Office, Money and all that
junk I had to get rid of.

J

 

[josephkk]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:03:23 -0800, "Robbie Hatley"
<see.my.sig@for.my.contact.info> wrote:

"JeffM" writes:

Robbie Hatley wrote:

Is this on-topic for this group?

The fact that you don't recognize 123maza as an extensive spammer
demonstrates that you are new to Usenet.

Illogical. Premise does not imply conclusion. Example: "The fact
that President Obama is a black man demonstrates that Tiger Woods
ate lasagna for lunch last thursday". No it doesn't. Even if the premise
and conclusion are both true, the implication is not valid. In the case
of your implication, your premise may be true, but your logic is
fallacious and your conclusion false.

Here's a real tip for you:
Instead, try READING Usenet for a while BEFORE posting.

No, I think that's a complex tip, not a real one,
3.45bogons @-54.5deg (cw) from positive real axis.

I've been "reading Usenet" since around 1996. However, I tend not to
memorize categorizations of people. I'm not an SJ type so concrete
categories are not my primary metal faculty. As an INTJ, my primary
mental function is introverted intuition. So I tend to reply to the
contents of what people say, rather that to their reputation. (I generally
neither know nor care much about people's reputations.)

By contrast, some people are much more interested in reputations than
content. For example, I note that your reply is actually a non-reply reply,
in that it does not agree-with, refute, or even mention any of the actual
contents of what I said, but instead lauches into a purely ad-hominem
line of reasoning, based on an attempt to assign "guilt by association
with persons of known bad reputation". This is SJ reasoning. That's
not my temperament. I'm NT, not SJ.

Research "MBTI" and "INTJ" for more on this. And read David Keirsey's
book "Please Understand Me". And check out chapter 10 of Carl Jung's
book "Psychological Types". These should give you some inkling as to why
people behave in ways you don't expect and don't like, and why attempting
to badger them into compliance with your expectations is generally futile
and serves only to give you ulcers.

You are no INTJ. If you were even you would recognize the spammer by now.


BTW do you VARK?
?-)