System Recovery

Hi, I will probably do several system recoveries in the next couple of
months for a Vista problem that is too lengthy to explain. A friend told me
that causes wear on a hard drive and can shorten its life. Is that true?
Larry

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"Larry" <> wrote in message
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> Hi, I will probably do several system recoveries in the next couple of months for
> a Vista problem that is too lengthy to explain. A friend told me that causes wear
> on a hard drive and can shorten its life. Is that true?
> Larry
>

On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:10:13 -0700, "Larry" <> wrote:

> Hi, I will probably do several system recoveries in the next couple of
> months for a Vista problem that is too lengthy to explain. A friend told me
> that causes wear on a hard drive and can shorten its life. Is that true?



No. Your friend is wrong.

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No, but I think it's more worrisome that you're doing "several" system
recoveries. On the same hard drive? "Why" is a good question to ask....

If you could, if you haven't already, describe your lengthy Vista problem,
we may be able to help you from doing "several" system recoveries? That's
what we're here for.

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Patrick P.
www.boydcomputersvcs.com

"Larry" <> wrote in message
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> Hi, I will probably do several system recoveries in the next couple of
> months for a Vista problem that is too lengthy to explain. A friend told
> me that causes wear on a hard drive and can shorten its life. Is that
> true?
> Larry
>

Thanks everybody, and here is the lengthy explanation you asked for,
Patrick. I bought this Compac/Vista laptop 2 1/2 years ago and gave up
trying to fix it 7 or 8 months later, after dozens of hours talking to folks
in India and a return of the machine for repair, upon which it was returned
to me system recovered, but with nothing saying what they had done or what
they thought had been wrong and nothing in Compac/HP's computer system that
anyone could find to tell me anything. Since then I haven't used the pile of
junk much except for reading ebooks and such, and don't remember what all
the error messages were or what prompted the crashes.

Now I am taking a Word 2007 class and plan to use, for the class, the trial
version of Office 2007 that is on the laptop until I can afford the $60 for
a student version of Office 2007. Until that time I will probably have to do
a few system recoveries to bring Office back to life because I am only
allowed to use the program 25 times and then have to buy the program. That
is the reason for my post. A local guy who analyzed the computer for free
said the hardware is okay, and that my machine probably just doesn't get
along with Vista. In a few weeks I will probably have some facts to give you
techies. Maybe you can then help me to fix the machine. But I can get a
student version of Windows 7 for $65 and fix it that way too.
Larry

From: "Patrick Palczewski" <>
Subject: Re: System Recovery
Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010 11:01 AM

No, but I think it's more worrisome that you're doing "several" system
recoveries. On the same hard drive? "Why" is a good question to ask....

If you could, if you haven't already, describe your lengthy Vista problem,
we may be able to help you from doing "several" system recoveries? That's
what we're here for.

--
Patrick P.
www.boydcomputersvcs.com

"Larry" <> wrote in message
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> Hi, I will probably do several system recoveries in the next couple of
> months for a Vista problem that is too lengthy to explain. A friend told
> me that causes wear on a hard drive and can shorten its life. Is that
> true?
> Larry
>

System recovery is harder on your hair than your hard drive.
You can replace the hard drive after you pull it out when you find that
system restore does not work.

"igotsaurus" <> wrote in message
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> System recovery is harder on your hair than your hard drive.
> You can replace the hard drive after you pull it out when you find that
> system restore does not work.

but you can't replace your hair !

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