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Offline The Moan Ranger

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Re: Ooops
« Reply #15 on: December 17, 2007, 10:26:47 AM »
Quote from: Barman on December 17, 2007, 09:41:19 AM
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on December 17, 2007, 09:39:28 AM
Quote from: Grumpmeister on December 14, 2007, 10:20:14 AM
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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Re: Ooops
« Reply #16 on: December 17, 2007, 10:28:59 AM »
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on December 17, 2007, 10:26:47 AM
Quote from: Barman on December 17, 2007, 09:41:19 AM
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on December 17, 2007, 09:39:28 AM
Quote from: Grumpmeister on December 14, 2007, 10:20:14 AM
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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Offline tel

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Re: Ooops
« Reply #17 on: December 17, 2007, 10:29:31 AM »
Quote from: Barman on December 17, 2007, 10:28:59 AM
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on December 17, 2007, 10:26:47 AM
Quote from: Barman on December 17, 2007, 09:41:19 AM
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on December 17, 2007, 09:39:28 AM
Quote from: Grumpmeister on December 14, 2007, 10:20:14 AM
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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Re: Ooops
« Reply #18 on: December 17, 2007, 04:37:57 PM »
Stand by your phone/PC tomorrow Tel. My redundancy check may depend on it  scared2:
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Re: Ooops
« Reply #19 on: December 17, 2007, 04:38:37 PM »
 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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Re: Ooops
« Reply #20 on: December 17, 2007, 04:43:34 PM »
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on December 17, 2007, 04:37:57 PM
Stand by your phone/PC tomorrow Tel. My redundancy check may depend on it  scared2:

Off tomorrow, hopefully.
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Re: Ooops
« Reply #21 on: December 17, 2007, 04:43:54 PM »
 point:
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Re: Ooops
« Reply #22 on: December 17, 2007, 04:52:14 PM »
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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Re: Ooops
« Reply #23 on: December 17, 2007, 05:01:44 PM »
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At least as long as the drive itself hasnt been totally buggered
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Re: Ooops
« Reply #24 on: December 17, 2007, 05:03:13 PM »
Well as there (hopefully) hasnt been exposure to Nick-o-rays there should be some hope for it.  whistle:
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Re: Ooops
« Reply #25 on: December 17, 2007, 05:13:31 PM »
No Young's for you tonight then, Yoda :-(
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Re: Ooops
« Reply #26 on: December 18, 2007, 10:10:01 AM »
UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME   cussing:
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Re: Ooops
« Reply #27 on: December 18, 2007, 10:11:09 AM »
Is that bad? rubschin:
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Re: Ooops
« Reply #28 on: December 18, 2007, 10:15:56 AM »
Sounds very nasty  whistle:
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Re: Ooops
« Reply #29 on: December 18, 2007, 10:17:17 AM »
Quote from: Nick on December 18, 2007, 10:11:09 AM
Is that bad? rubschin:

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