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HELP! HELP! BIG PROBLEMS AFTER REPAIR !
sallyb:
Thank you for replying, Shane. I haven't picked up my machine yet..it's not ready but should be this morning! I have never had to take my computer to a shop in the 30 + years I have been nutty over them. I'm not a tech, but I can usually fix my own problems! I have had techs come to me occasionally, though, over the years to help with a glitch or so....the worst time was around 2000 when I had been on vacation for a couple of weeks and my son had ruined my hard drive by turning it into a recording studio using Napster...( he was forbidden to use my machine as I needed it for my business, but you probably know how teenagers are...if you don't yet. YOU WILL..I promise :cheesy:)
Anyway a tech helped me install a new hard drive and get back running. Other than that, no serious problems as I am careful.
Shane:
Good to hear it is getting fixed, a new hard drive was a good idea. :cheesy:
If you had a normal Windows install disk you could have done this yourself, but Microsoft wnet and made that a pain in the butt to get because of their goal to have 1 billion machines on Windows 10 by 2020.
A happy note for myself, my old house I could only get a 15 mb internet connection, my new house I am now on a 100 mb connection. Ohhhh yeah :artist:
Shane
sallyb:
Do you mean a new format and install? The others Boggin and Jraju said it should have been a repair install?
Shane:
If you had the disk you could have tried a repair install first, this lets you keep all the files and programs. If it didnt do the trick then a fresh install would be needed, which you could have done if you had the install disk :-)
Shane
sallyb:
I did not have the install disks, but Windows is being reloaded with the repair tech's OEM disks? Could he have done a repair/install?
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