Re: recovery

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	aus.computers
Subject	Re: recovery
Date	2015-10-29 12:05 +1100
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"felix_unger" <me@nothere.biz> wrote in message 
news:d9d0kkFu80aU6@mid.individual.net...
> On 29-October-2015 5:41 AM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>
>>
>> "felix_unger" <me@nothere.biz> wrote in message 
>> news:d9bgt3Fi0mfU2@mid.individual.net...
>>> On 28-October-2015 1:50 PM, F Murtz, Rod's biggest fan, wrote:
>>>> felix_unger wrote:
>>>>> On 28/10/2015 12:12 AM, Max wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Computer Nerd Kev" <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:n0nb4v$46k$2@speranza.aioe.org...
>>>>>>> Max <max@val.morgan> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "Max" <max@val.morgan> wrote in message
>>>>>>>> news:n0n1pj$k04$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>>>>>>>>> If someone says their computer has stopped working and they want 
>>>>>>>>> me to
>>>>>>>>> recover their Outlook Express address book, photos & documents,
>>>>>>>>> what is
>>>>>>>>> the best course of action to take?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> How do access a recovery console on an XP system?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> With Win 7 you can boot from a repair disc, but what about XP?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Boot from the installation disc.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You're best off making an image of the HDD first using a live CD
>>>>>>> Linux distro, or another computer with the HDD in a USB adapter.
>>>>>>> Then you can try to fix the OS or recover the data without risk
>>>>>>> of making a mess if you or a recovery program does something
>>>>>>> wrong.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ideally you should perform any recovery operations on a copy of
>>>>>>> the image of the HDD instead of the drive itself, then write
>>>>>>> the fixed image to the HDD when you've checked that everything
>>>>>>> is working.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Of course you haven't given enough information about the problem
>>>>>>> to allow me to judge the relevance of the above suggestions. I'm
>>>>>>> assuming either data corruption, or some OS issue (which might
>>>>>>> be fixed by restoring one of XP's restore points). In both cases,
>>>>>>> making a HDD image would be a good idea.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You cannot run System Restore by booting from an XP disc. It is not
>>>>>> available.
>>>>>
>>>>> just connect the hard drive to another computer to see what you can 
>>>>> see.
>>>>> the hard drive might be ok and you could just transfer what you want 
>>>>> off it
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> What did rod say earlier? put the drive in a usb dock as a first try !!
>>>
>>> so what if he doesn't have one?
>>
>> Get one, fuckwit. They don’t cost much.
>
> I was talking about him not me.

Duh. I made that comment about him, fuckwit.

> I do have one anyway.

You have always been, and always will be completely and
utterly irrelevant. What you may or may not have in spades.

> and he may not need one, so why would he spend the money?

Because they cost peanuts and are
the best thing to use for that problem.

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