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peter915:
changed the boot options,
made cd draw first option
then installed original Win8 install disc and re booted
after much delay and going around the blue refresh/repair screen - I took the refresh option.
Of it went, refreshed the PC
much later I have a working desktop - less a lot of programs I had installed - but my files are accessible
wireless card appears to be an issue ?
 guess this can be replaced?
will do a back up asap
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Boggin:
The wireless NIC could very well be on the way out with a 701 error, but now that your machine is working, go into Device Manager/View/Show hidden devices and look for any yellow alerts or red crosses.

Expand Network adapters, right click on the wireless one and select Properties where under the General tab will show its status.

Sometimes right clicking the adapter and selecting Uninstall without checking the box to include software and a reboot will reinstate it - but don't check the box to include software as you will have to reinstall the driver from scratch.

peter915:
OK I did that = checked wireless - seems OK for now ?
whats a good backup program which is easy to use ?
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Boggin:
I've always used Windows own to create my system images, initially onto DVDs until I bought an external HDD for the job.

The only downside to that is that it overwrites the previous image, so you need to ensure everything is just right before creating the next one.

As well as doing that, I bought another external HDD where I store an earlier image and alternate which HDD I use for the images which recently resolved a problem for me, as the newer image included a problem I wasn't aware of when I made it.

I don't use the Windows Back up schedule as it's only once a month when things really change with the various updates other than a Notepad doc, which I back up onto a Flash stick.

Others use Macrium Reflect but have had problems with that when they've needed it - another 3rd party one is Acronis True Image but I believe that is a paid for program.

The only problem I've ever had with Windows own system image was when I was using DVDs and wanting to restore with the one before last, it didn't want to know for some reason, but since using external HDDs, never had a problem - and it's free.

To restore from an external HDD in Win 7 you need to boot up either into the advanced boot options or with a system repair disk to navigate to the Recovery Environment to select restore from an image I made earlier, but not sure how that is done in Win 8/8.1.

peter915:
Tried the WIN7 back up 3x times
Fails each time
Gets about half way and crashes
HHD is a USB - brand new Toshiba unit - Terabyte
How should I stand ?
Do I need to change my socks ?
Is it a religious thing ?
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