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Come Inside... => The Computer Room => Topic started by: The Moan Ranger on December 14, 2007, 09:59:49 AM
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Following a regular monthly profile refresh, it appears I have killed the MD's laptop. Redundancy may come sooner than anticipated. scared2:
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Give it to a technician to sort out.............
evil:
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Computers are the work of the devil... evil:
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Did you make a backup of the drive or does the MD have all the important stuff on a network drive.
If all else fails how old is tha laptop, you could always claim catastrophic hardware failure... whistle:
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Did you make a backup of the drive or does the MD have all the important stuff on a network drive.
If all else fails how old is tha laptop, you could always claim catastrophic hardware failure... whistle:
Or tell him you found some kiddy porn on the hard drive... whistle:
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Dont forget the effect of Karma Wenchy, when your next computer problem occurs TMR is probably going to be laughing himself hoarse point:
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redface: eeek: redface:
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Did you make a backup of the drive or does the MD have all the important stuff on a network drive.
If all else fails how old is tha laptop, you could always claim catastrophic hardware failure... whistle:
It's a Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook E series - gotta be over five yeard old. I did not make a backup as the profile refresh very, very rarely causes any problems. I hope most of his stuff is on the network, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if there's "stuff" on the hard drive too. I have warned all laptop users of the risks associated with this. He's bringing it in on Tuesday, so I have a few days to think of some excuses!
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Did you make a backup of the drive or does the MD have all the important stuff on a network drive.
If all else fails how old is tha laptop, you could always claim catastrophic hardware failure... whistle:
It's a Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook E series - gotta be over five yeard old. I did not make a backup as the profile refresh very, very rarely causes any problems. I hope most of his stuff is on the network, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if there's "stuff" on the hard drive too. I have warned all laptop users of the risks associated with this. He's bringing it in on Tuesday, so I have a few days to think of some excuses!
Or write a polite letter of resignation. ;)
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Did you make a backup of the drive or does the MD have all the important stuff on a network drive.
If all else fails how old is tha laptop, you could always claim catastrophic hardware failure... whistle:
It's a Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook E series - gotta be over five yeard old. I did not make a backup as the profile refresh very, very rarely causes any problems. I hope most of his stuff is on the network, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if there's "stuff" on the hard drive too. I have warned all laptop users of the risks associated with this. He's bringing it in on Tuesday, so I have a few days to think of some excuses!
Or write a polite letter of resignation. ;)
Nah! He's going before I am and I'm sure in this season of goodwill, he will accept that it's "just one of those things". Probably.
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Did you make a backup of the drive or does the MD have all the important stuff on a network drive.
If all else fails how old is tha laptop, you could always claim catastrophic hardware failure... whistle:
The MD has just sent me an e-mail, detailing the problem...
"We apologise….Windows did not start successfully.A recent hardware or software change may have caused this. If your…..
Options – open in safe mode
Last known configuration etc
Etc."
I'll get my coat...
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Did you make a backup of the drive or does the MD have all the important stuff on a network drive.
If all else fails how old is tha laptop, you could always claim catastrophic hardware failure... whistle:
The MD has just sent me an e-mail, detailing the problem...
"We apologise….Windows did not start successfully.A recent hardware or software change may have caused this. If your…..
Options – open in safe mode
Last known configuration etc
Etc."
I'll get my coat...
Tell him he's lucky that his e-mail works... whistle:
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This is getting interesting. I wonder when we will get the next instalment?
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Did you make a backup of the drive or does the MD have all the important stuff on a network drive.
If all else fails how old is tha laptop, you could always claim catastrophic hardware failure... whistle:
The MD has just sent me an e-mail, detailing the problem...
"We apologise….Windows did not start successfully.A recent hardware or software change may have caused this. If your…..
Options – open in safe mode
Last known configuration etc
Etc."
I'll get my coat...
Tell him he's lucky that his e-mail works... whistle:
He has a laptop and a desktop you ridiculous baldy Barman. He is the MD after all
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Did you make a backup of the drive or does the MD have all the important stuff on a network drive.
If all else fails how old is tha laptop, you could always claim catastrophic hardware failure... whistle:
The MD has just sent me an e-mail, detailing the problem...
"We apologise….Windows did not start successfully.A recent hardware or software change may have caused this. If your…..
Options – open in safe mode
Last known configuration etc
Etc."
I'll get my coat...
Tell him he's lucky that his e-mail works... whistle:
He has a laptop and a desktop you ridiculous baldy Barman. He is the MD after all
No problemo then... whistle:
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Did you make a backup of the drive or does the MD have all the important stuff on a network drive.
If all else fails how old is tha laptop, you could always claim catastrophic hardware failure... whistle:
The MD has just sent me an e-mail, detailing the problem...
"We apologise….Windows did not start successfully.A recent hardware or software change may have caused this. If your…..
Options – open in safe mode
Last known configuration etc
Etc."
I'll get my coat...
Tell him he's lucky that his e-mail works... whistle:
He has a laptop and a desktop you ridiculous baldy Barman. He is the MD after all
No problemo then... whistle:
Famous last words!
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Stand by your phone/PC tomorrow Tel. My redundancy check may depend on it scared2:
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scared2:
Vindictive type, is he. My last one was too. I enjoyed e mailing her to congratulate her on her enforced "early retirement." eveilgrin:
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Stand by your phone/PC tomorrow Tel. My redundancy check may depend on it scared2:
Off tomorrow, hopefully.
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Claim it is down to a virus and take credit for patching the network so that a minimum of computers were affected. eyes:
Just a thought but you should in theory be able to retrieve the data on the disk by attaching it as an extra drive on another computer. At least as long as the drive itself hasnt been totally buggered
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At least as long as the drive itself hasnt been totally buggered
rubschin:
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Well as there (hopefully) hasnt been exposure to Nick-o-rays there should be some hope for it. whistle:
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No Young's for you tonight then, Yoda :-(
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UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME cussing:
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Is that bad? rubschin:
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Sounds very nasty whistle:
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Is that bad? rubschin:
Does Wenchy like chocolate, is Nick a magnet for cataclysmic events.
The answer would be yes Nick.
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So the laptop is knackered then.
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No ~ the lap-top isn't knackered .... but it will need some new parts to replace the non-functioning ones and then it will be fine. As my man with the bag of virtual spanners told me only yesterday. "Anything can be fixed ~ why replace the whole thing when all you need is a new hard drive?" Difference in cost using his philosophy ...... 'bout £500 whistle:
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Erm... scared2:
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Whaddya care .... you or he ? ~ the company is paying ~ buy a new one. You both know he plans to nick it when he gets the push anyway.
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Erm... scared2:
That bad, eh?
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Grumpmeister comes to the rescue:
http://www.data-recovery.net/ (http://www.data-recovery.net/)
Tell him that its a total failure of something within the hard disk and that the data can hopefully be retrieved but it will need to be sent away.
As long as you make it look like you are being proactive you can probably blag it from there.
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...... 'bout £500 whistle:
Which way?
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...... 'bout £500 whistle:
Which way?
In my favour in the case of my PC
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UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME cussing:
No problemo... whistle:
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You need to see if it needs windows re-loading - leaves data intact on re-install - this assumes you do not have a bootable cd to hand.
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You need to see if it needs windows re-loading - leaves data intact on re-install - this assumes you do not have a bootable cd to hand.
That's what I had to do ~ reload XP (which process automatically erases the old version) ..... but it lost all the saved data, address books, favourites etc etc. We thought we had saved them to a "stick" during the process but when we came to put them back in all it held were the headings/file names etc. Contents all gone.
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External hard drive that mirrors the pc and is backed up every weekend!
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When re-loading windows there is an option to create a new version leaving old version and all other folders intact.
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External hard drive that mirrors the pc and is backed up every weekend!
Do you use Ghost or such similar software?
Have you ever tested it - that's when the fun really begins.
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shrugs:
Brother Wench told me what buttons to press and that is what I do. cloud9:
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Just out of interest Wenchy, does brother Wench have an evil sense of humour........ whistle:
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shrugs:
Brother Wench told me what buttons to press and that is what I do. cloud9:
Not sure that answers the question.
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It does! It says I dunno I does as I is told.
Brother Wench is an evil bastard! scared2:
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He's a monk? rubschin:
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happy001
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It does! It says I dunno I does as I is told.
Brother Wench is an evil bastard! scared2:
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So you havent tried to restore a backup yet then happy001
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Initial reports from his secretary are that there are NO files stored on the local drive - all on the network.
And it just so happens that I've sourced a replacement laptop - identical - which he is currently testing. I may yet get out of this pickle...
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You do realise that if his old laptop is junked you could always replace the hard drive and ebay it whistle:
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Brother Wench told me what buttons to press and that is what I do. cloud9:
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shrugs:
Brother Wench told me what buttons to press and that is what I do. cloud9:
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Works for me BM works for me.
Vice may be nice but they do say incest is best.
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Wench - you do need to test your backup, otherwise you are wasting your time, and effort.
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angry041:
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It's like having a spare wheel. Comforting until you have an emergency and you find it is either flat, perished or the wrong size.
You will find yourself stranded in hell.
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Bro is dropping by on his way to the airport Saturday.
I am in trouble for not checking it was working sooner. redface:
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Just received an e-mail from the MD saying that Outlook doesn't work on the replacement laptop I gave him. Banghead!
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Just received an e-mail from the MD saying that Outlook doesn't work on the replacement laptop I gave him. Banghead!
How did he send the e-mail if Outlook isn't working?
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It's not working on the laptop - he had to drive to the office today to send an Outlook via his desktop PC...
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It's not working on the laptop - he had to drive to the office today to send an Outlook via his desktop PC...
Oops. cry: surrender:
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It's not working on the laptop - he had to drive to the office today to send an Outlook via his desktop PC...
Oops. cry: surrender:
Indeed. He lives near Reading and had to drive to Sutton to do it. Still, it might have been an excuse to avoid the last minute shopping ;D
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It's not working on the laptop - he had to drive to the office today to send an Outlook via his desktop PC...
Oops. cry: surrender:
Indeed. He lives near Reading and had to drive to Sutton to do it. Still, it might have been an excuse to avoid the last minute shopping ;D
And this idiot is the boss? ::)
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It's not working on the laptop - he had to drive to the office today to send an Outlook via his desktop PC...
Oops. cry: surrender:
Indeed. He lives near Reading and had to drive to Sutton to do it. Still, it might have been an excuse to avoid the last minute shopping ;D
And this idiot is the boss? ::)
Boss, chairman, mayor, landlord.
All tarred with the silly brush in my experience. whistle:
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It's not working on the laptop - he had to drive to the office today to send an Outlook via his desktop PC...
Oops. cry: surrender:
Indeed. He lives near Reading and had to drive to Sutton to do it. Still, it might have been an excuse to avoid the last minute shopping ;D
And this idiot is the boss? ::)
Boss, chairman, mayor, landlord.
All tarred with the silly brush in my experience. whistle:
lol: ... evil:
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His replacement laptop arrived today - a lovely IBM ThinkPad. I fired it up - "Hard Drive Initialisation Error". Banghead Banghead Banghead
Re-seated the hard drive and it works, no doubt the Couriers treated it like a football. So far so good. Only one minor problem (!) though, he will also need a new router configured to the MAC address on the new laptop and they didn't provide one Banghead Banghead Banghead
Laptop will now be sent back so that the MD can pick both the new laptop and the new router up from Swindon on Friday
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Re-seated the hard drive
confused2: confused2:
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Re-seated the hard drive
confused2: confused2:
He's happy ~ let him play
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Re-seated the hard drive
confused2: confused2:
He's happy ~ let him play
But I love jargon.
"Good evening Mr Hard Drive, perhaps you would prefer to sit over here, with a better view of the keyboard and screen?"
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Snoopy and DS. Kindly do me a favour...
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Off Piste I think DS
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Well. there are hardly any users in today, so lovely and peaceful.
Have been told to bugger orf at 12:30.
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1 o'clock for me.
I may be tempted to partake of some Young's.
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Well. there are hardly any users in today, so lovely and peaceful.
Have been told to bugger orf at 12:30.
System will crash at about 12:25 then? whistle:
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Off Piste I think DS
Sounds like it. sad24:
All the youngsters will be getting legless shortly anyway.
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Well. there are hardly any users in today, so lovely and peaceful.
Have been told to bugger orf at 12:30.
System will crash at about 12:25 then? whistle:
There probably won't be anyone here to notice, people have started exiting already.
So I shal whizz off and find a freindly pint of Youngs. ;D
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Well. there are hardly any users in today, so lovely and peaceful.
Have been told to bugger orf at 12:30.
System will crash at about 12:25 then? whistle:
There probably won't be anyone here to notice, people have started exiting already.
So I shal whizz off and find a freindly pint of Youngs. ;D
Judging by the errors in that post, you've already started!
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Too true!
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The MD's laptop has just been returned to my office, despite instructions to send it to Swindon! I may have to take the damn thing up personally tomorrow...grr!
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Only an hour's run and such a lovely place to visit at this time of the year. Say hello to the Oxford Hotel from me.
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Only an hour's run and such a lovely place to visit at this time of the year. Say hello to the Oxford Hotel from me.
An hour?! From Sutton?! Possibly on the motorbike, but my best ever was one hour to Membury Services and that was with some pretty regular 140+ stints. The best I've managed by car was 1 hour 27 minutes and even that was 95 all the way. Anyway, not necessary, the laptop was there first thing this morning.
I have just spoken to one of the carrot crunching IT guys up there and the MD has already collected the laptop. They are still working on the router. Fingers crossed scared2:
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I had assumed that you had easy (ie direct access to the M4)
Sorry but I hadn't realised you lived AND worked so far out of town.
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It's 35 minutes to the office in SwineTown, once you've joined the M4 at Bracknell (A329M) at a steady 85(ish). Last time I went there were lots of point-to-point cameras near Reading, keeping you to 50mph. Although, obviously as they take the picture from the front, you can still hoon along like a mad thing on a motorbike whistle:
Getting the A329(M) / M4 junction takes about an hour from Sutton, as long as the traffic is kind.