Re: vista won't boot- restarts

Oh Man I am sorry to hear that I had an Issue last dec where I restarted the
laptop and I got an error saying Vista could not boot and I had to do a
Restore/ recovery or basically a factory reboot bringing it back to what it
was when I bought it the July before.
I used another computer and looked up all the info on being able to do this
function and save all my 1000's of music files ,pics,doc, I do a lot of
music playing,etc so I had about 200 gigs on it. I found out that there is a
bug and if you try to take all your files and folders like you should save
them to a DVD or a few and then reinstall all items once the
restore/recovery is done. The computer gets confused and 99% of the files a
vaporized.
I was so mad as I took about 6 hrs making the discs to save all the
expensive files,programs,recording software etc.
SO I would suggest if you have valuable non-replaceable items on your drive
to figure a way to get it off without using the Microsoft recommended way.
That was about 8 months ago so they may have fixed it but who wants to
destroy all their info to find out.
Good luck
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On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:40:40 -0700, Spudnick wrote:

> Oh Man I am sorry to hear that I had an Issue last dec where I restarted the
> laptop and I got an error saying Vista could not boot and I had to do a
> Restore/ recovery or basically a factory reboot bringing it back to what it
> was when I bought it the July before.
> I used another computer and looked up all the info on being able to do this
> function and save all my 1000's of music files ,pics,doc, I do a lot of
> music playing,etc so I had about 200 gigs on it. I found out that there is a
> bug and if you try to take all your files and folders like you should save
> them to a DVD or a few and then reinstall all items once the
> restore/recovery is done. The computer gets confused and 99% of the files a
> vaporized.
> I was so mad as I took about 6 hrs making the discs to save all the
> expensive files,programs,recording software etc.
> SO I would suggest if you have valuable non-replaceable items on your drive
> to figure a way to get it off without using the Microsoft recommended way.
> That was about 8 months ago so they may have fixed it but who wants to
> destroy all their info to find out.
> Good luck
> -

Most of us have figured out that an external hard drive is far easier to
use to back up large amounts of data...

Safer, too.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)