OK M back on line on my old laptop, my new VISTA machine that has run flawlessly until now had a "Unrecoverable windows error".
The good news I have made a backup set late October, bad news is I lost all of my vacation photos from Knob Creek, so now I keep a 2gig thumbnail for photo backup.
I have been told that the data may still be recoverable despite a full re install of the OS. Thoughts, ideas or who can on this please...
Why did it do this??? at this point I do not know, it took me close to 18 hours to get the thing running again, but i could not get the restore files to install, n have a geek friend working on that, I suspect failed memory, or a virus e mail that kept showing up in my on line e mail account, (their spam filter was not working) and may have downloaded despite my 2 firewalls, and full download scanning.
This is just a word of advice to all out there, keep current backups, full restore sets, the DVD format can hold a heap more data, and all critical data on a separate and easily usable media, such as a USB drive. One that is quick and easy to use, Yes I have a huge USB drive that is a pain to get to, not so the thumb nail types. Had I used the thumb nail I would still have all my photos, and not just the ones I dumped on Photo bucket.
The good news I have made a backup set late October, bad news is I lost all of my vacation photos from Knob Creek, so now I keep a 2gig thumbnail for photo backup.
I have been told that the data may still be recoverable despite a full re install of the OS. Thoughts, ideas or who can on this please...
Why did it do this??? at this point I do not know, it took me close to 18 hours to get the thing running again, but i could not get the restore files to install, n have a geek friend working on that, I suspect failed memory, or a virus e mail that kept showing up in my on line e mail account, (their spam filter was not working) and may have downloaded despite my 2 firewalls, and full download scanning.
This is just a word of advice to all out there, keep current backups, full restore sets, the DVD format can hold a heap more data, and all critical data on a separate and easily usable media, such as a USB drive. One that is quick and easy to use, Yes I have a huge USB drive that is a pain to get to, not so the thumb nail types. Had I used the thumb nail I would still have all my photos, and not just the ones I dumped on Photo bucket.