Hello All --
It's been like 5 years, and I am guessing that everyone of you have gone through this at least once a few years! You get up to drink your coffee, eat your toast, and turn on the PC to find a beautiful bluesky screen telling you that you're screw! LOL --- Your eyes popping out, and you're wondering, why me? LOL ... That universal question. :'(
So HD crashed -- granted, HD has treated me great, performed great for many years! But it's days where number... And to make a long story short had to replace battery on the motherboard too since this pc is 4 years old! But there is life at the end of the tunnel ...
Found the three-recovery disks that I made of this pc from 5 years ago; So, I got a new-faster HD, and used the recovery disks to re-installed windows 7, and all of the features that the acer pc came from, so pc is now as if I bought 5 years ago ... completely fresh and new!
As for the tons of trainz files, good news in that front!
This is what I did -- I have an external hard drive port, and I plugged that crashed hard drive in that, and then plugged that to the recently brand new computer!, etc ... Lucky for me all of the files, I mean everything is still there ... I got access to those files, and now able to transfer those files to my external back up drives! Usually I would have done this before any crash, but I am not into trainz these days, so I get lazy ... you guys know how that feels!
Anyhow, yes, back-up is essential; However, if your hard drives crash get yourself one of these external hard drive ports, and plug it in to see what happens ... Although the OS is damaged there's still that change to get your files out before discarding the hard drive!
Well, that's my pc trainz story guys!
Have a great day all!!
Ish
BTW -- Anyone has any interesting stories like this .... etc
It's been like 5 years, and I am guessing that everyone of you have gone through this at least once a few years! You get up to drink your coffee, eat your toast, and turn on the PC to find a beautiful bluesky screen telling you that you're screw! LOL --- Your eyes popping out, and you're wondering, why me? LOL ... That universal question. :'(
So HD crashed -- granted, HD has treated me great, performed great for many years! But it's days where number... And to make a long story short had to replace battery on the motherboard too since this pc is 4 years old! But there is life at the end of the tunnel ...
Found the three-recovery disks that I made of this pc from 5 years ago; So, I got a new-faster HD, and used the recovery disks to re-installed windows 7, and all of the features that the acer pc came from, so pc is now as if I bought 5 years ago ... completely fresh and new!
As for the tons of trainz files, good news in that front!
This is what I did -- I have an external hard drive port, and I plugged that crashed hard drive in that, and then plugged that to the recently brand new computer!, etc ... Lucky for me all of the files, I mean everything is still there ... I got access to those files, and now able to transfer those files to my external back up drives! Usually I would have done this before any crash, but I am not into trainz these days, so I get lazy ... you guys know how that feels!
Anyhow, yes, back-up is essential; However, if your hard drives crash get yourself one of these external hard drive ports, and plug it in to see what happens ... Although the OS is damaged there's still that change to get your files out before discarding the hard drive!
Well, that's my pc trainz story guys!
Have a great day all!!
Ish
BTW -- Anyone has any interesting stories like this .... etc