[senco-forum] contact details

Ruth
Here are some other things to try before giving up on it starting up (if
you haven't tried them already). There is a chance that it is a bad
connection as well as that it's a dying disk.

Leave it turned on and in the warm for a while before restarting it;
If it's a desktop:
	open it up (disconnect from the mains first) and press firmly on
all the connectors and all chips that are in sockets
	vacuum (carefully) out the dust
If it's a laptop get a technician to do the same!

If that doesn't work try lifting it a couple of inches off the desk and
dropping it. (A gentle kick serves the same purpose -- at your own risk
of course!). 

If that doesn't work there are professional data recovery firms that
will charge an arm and a leg on a no-fix, no-fee basis to recover
practically anything. 

Or there are companies like us who have tools which will usually recover
most files from a dying drive, although it is not our specialism. But it
does tend to be time consuming to sort the data out afterwards, unless
you are lucky that the directory structure is intact and you can copy it
all normally like Philip suggests.

Good luck and Happy New Year!
Ian Litterick
Executive Chairman
www.iansyst.co.uk
www.dyslexic.com
01223 420101

-----Original Message-----
From: senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Philip
MacMillan
Sent: 27 December 2006 13:47
To: Ruth Newbury; senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk
Subject: Re: [senco-forum] contact details

Youmight be able to fit your old hard disk into your new machine and
retrieve your data that way.

Philip EP
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ruth Newbury" <rmnewbury at ntlworld.com>
To: <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 12:32 PM
Subject: [senco-forum] contact details

Dear All

My old computer finally died on Christmas Eve - why does that kind of
thing
always happen at a time when everything closes down - and everyone is
busy
doing something else?

Now I would love to be able to tell you all that of course I have backed
up
everything - but I didn't!

Every address - phone number - email address whatever is stored away in
my
old computer - which will now do nothing but a loop trying - and failing
to
start up.

So I would be very grateful for the senco forum people who have sent me
contact details before to send them to me again - so that I can begin to
get
myself organised.

I now have a nice new Phillips machine - beware of this - it comes with
NO
SPEAKERS - and I have spent sometime with the handbook thinking that I
was
loosing what marbles I have left not being abke to get any sound!

PC World are about to give me a set of something free - because I spelt
out
VERY CLEARLY what I regularly did - and what I wanted to be able to do
that
my old computer would not do very well or not at all.  I've also seen
enough
at the BETT judging process to know that bigger, better, newer, smarter
will generally be advisable is you do not want to spend all day looking
at
your machine thinking very slowly.

So I am assured that I have the zippiest speeds - the largest memory and
best operating systems - and they had better be right!

So I am now hoping that my emails get through - and that I can now
resolve
to be a virtuous computer user who will back up everything - and make
paper
copies of things like peoples addresses and phone numbers!

And I am also wondering just how much it will cost me to recover my lost
files - all my work everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway - I know know that I can wsh you all the compliments of the
season -
even though it is  BIT LATE. I have had a spell of not being too well -
the
progress in moving has now slowed down a bit (my consultant doesn't want
see me again until April which means I think, that speedy progress is
not on
the cards) but I have bought myself an electronic scooter thingy that
means
that once I have got myself insured I shall be able to mow pedestrians
down
with impunity!

A good - and healthy New Year and 2007 to you all.

Regards

Ruth - and if anyone tells me how I can set up a template for the way I
like
my emails to look - I shall be very pleased/

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