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Discussion Boards => Off-Topic => Topic started by: tashamjoy on November 07, 2013, 09:43:04 pm
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SO I have had all sorts of technology issues in the past but I just talked with my teacher today and she told me that she turned her computer on and it just gave her a code and nothing opened or worked and she went to several places to get it fixed and its beyond repair so she just lost the last 4 years of stuff on her laptop I COULD NOT IMAGINE the feeling has this happened to you? I am telling you this for you to back up your stuff always best to be safe then sorry !!!
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YES back your stuff up!!! Theres many ways to do this and many of us don't! Me included! I do have my important photos on a flash drive or I emailed them to myself. The fact is all computers break down eventually!
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I would notify my school of the problem since its still their computer. Hopefully the tech support will walk me through on fixing the problem.
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I don't keep a lot of stuff on my computer, but would still be lost without it. It is my entertainment because I am retired and it is my connection with the outside world.
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First I would try and fix it, then I would seek help from someone else, I may even go as far as to take it a shop to be repaired. If all of this fail, I would buy another computer.
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i would go crazy and actually felt like it..we moved and my computer was down a week..just got it going tonight...missed so much....so many days missed at fushion cash....and my emails..omg......
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Did you know if you buy a Western Digital hard drive the same size as you old one, you can clone it through the USB port. They let you download Acronis True Image free (saved me $50) that only works if one of your drives is a Western Digital That's the best backup I know of, just plug and play.
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Her comp might be shot but the data is NOT lost, it can be retrieved! There are a number of ways to do this and it need not be all that expensive. Likely there is someone she knows at the school that can lend her a hand with that.
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Did you know if you buy a Western Digital hard drive the same size as you old one, you can clone it through the USB port. They let you download Acronis True Image free (saved me $50) that only works if one of your drives is a Western Digital That's the best backup I know of, just plug and play.
I will have to try that. My computer is on its last leg.
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In todays technology driven environment there is absolutly no reason / excuse not to back up your important information. As for the technical issues realted to a 4 year old laptop it is time to replace the machine with a newer one since the life cycle of a typical computer system is about 3 years.
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Indeed this has happened to me. Not once but a couple of times and sadly I keep loosing things that are important to me more than anything which are pictures of my kids. Thankfully now with social media I've been able to keep pictures that are closest to my heart available all the time. Back up - save and repeat is now my motto.
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I purchased an off-site backup program. It backs up everything however often you tell them to. It worked for me.
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I had to take mine to the shop....it took about 3 days to get it running......
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Yeah, my internet provider offers a cloud backup program. Its great, never have to worry about
loosing anything. Everyone should back up their computers at least once or twice a week, depending
on how much info they input daily. Just saying......
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if my computer stopped working id call some one to fix it
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I would be mad especially since Christmas is right around the corner
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I would miss watching FushionCash videos even the $half-cent ones. :binkybaby: I would miss my computer it is my tool for the outside.
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Oh my! I would probably go int a very deep depression and have to be sedated!
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I've had my computer go bad on me unexpectedly a few times. Mostly as long as I can get it to boot in command mode, then it's hooking it up to a working laptop/computer and copy over all the files via line commands, then pop in the OS install disc to see if a fress OS installation fixes the issue. If not, then it's hardware and either try to replace it, or get a new machine. At least the data is preserved.
Of course, if you have your data backed up, or have taking full image backups of the entire machine - it would be much easier to reinstate. The reason I like the imaging option is it saves all installed programs and other configurations which saves me lots of setup time if the issue was a bad hard drive.
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That is why I back my stuff up weekly. Quite a few people do not do this and then when they have a problem, they have lost everything! If your not tech savvy, you can always just buy a service for about $60 a year and they will store your backup for you. It is well worth the $60 dollars to do this. I do mine locally and have a removable drive that I store all my backup's on. This way even if my machine blows up. I have my software and files that I need to restore, even on another machine if it takes that.
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I have had not 1 but 2 computers die. Fortunately I had backed it up so it was just a matter of transferring the data from my external hard drive to the new computer.
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omg I would have to run out to the store and get a new one I would be lost without it special now I need to do my fushion cash and everything else I would get prob 2 if I had to for a back up as I can afford but right now I have 4 in my home :thumbsup:
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If mine stopped working; I would just have to go out and buy a new one. Can't live without it! :dontknow:
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I have important photos/documents in a cloud on the internet so I don't necessarily feel the need to back up my computer. I always make sure I have
2 laptops at all times so I can access the internet on one if I'm unable to use the other one.
Basically, my back up is a separate laptop. :heart:
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if my computer would just quit working i would be upset scared to lose fusioncash cause i dont have the money to just go out and buy another one or i would try and get mine fixed at a cheap rate. :'(
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I have been there before! Several years ago my computer did basically the same thing....locked up and then ...FRIED...I lost everything that I had on there! Now, I back up everything...I don't want to ever experience that again.
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I use fix my comper and there back up stame so i don't lose every thing . and they keep it runing all for the same price.
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Run over it with my truck numerous times until its just smudge on the driveway. I have a lot of inner hostility towards technology.
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At work we have all sorts of imaging software to create clones of computers, so I have always kept a base image from the beginning of each year. I also put easily recovered on a network drive or USB drives.
For my personal computer at home, I put my personal things (mostly pictures and music) on an external hard-drive. I actually have a 3TB external drive that is my main backup, and I also have a couple of 1TB external drives for my music where ones is what I use all the time and the 2nd is just a backup. However a lot of the stuff that I do on my personal computer is not really necessary for me to store as a backup... I don't bother backing up saved game files, for example. If my computer crashes and I lose that game's data, so be it... I can always re-install the game and start over. Plus more and more the data is actually stored in the cloud, so it isn't necessary to make backups as long as you retain the install disk. I'd probably say the same with my MP3s were it not for the fact that some of those files I obtained on-line (eg e-music, Amazon, etc.) rather than ripping from off of CDs (although I do have an extensive CD collection too, so I could always re-rip if need be).
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I don't really have anything importiant on my computer like family photos, documents and such but I would be mad because this laptops price tag is 3k
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After having just commented under this post last week I couldn't believe what happened to me last night. This Dell laptop I bought refurbished off Amazon seems to overheat . . . and it's inconsistent as to when it wants to shut down. Sometimes I can have it on for 20 min. and it shuts down. Others 3-4 hours at a time. I've had to Jimmy rig a little lap table with the corner of the laptop hanging off so the fan can blow - very awkward. So last night it over heated...I did some dishes...let it cool off and started it up - - - - but couldn't get online. We had to do a system restore so I have no clue what happened but as time lapsed and me and my husband were trying to figure it all out I was faced with the inconvenience of possibly having to share one laptop again. Thanks to his smarts he got this portable electric blanket of mine to get back on the web.
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Save all into your USB, it is much convenient now than in the past. I remember we use to save all information to a thick disk and years passed, we use CD to save the information but now we can save into USB ;)
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I would get in touch with my computer tech but I seemed to have that problem anyway not that it has just stopped but it gives me trouble with my internet connection all the time and boy do I get upset. So I could just imagine if it just stopped working I would be livid.
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:D :D I do that :D :D
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I have everything on my computer backed up on flesh drives. I take my computer to Best Buy for software repairs about every six months. In fact I have to take it back down there now in a week or so because my PC was attacked by malwares the other day. :(
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I'd restart it in safemode if at all possible. You can fix most problems that way. If more than that I would see if it is still under warranty and if all else fails I go get a new one.
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Probably a little late, but your teacher should be able to take the hard drive and get a hard drive enclousure and just plug it into another computer like you would an external hard drive and just pull her information off of it that way. Granted, if it's a hard drive issue like it got fried or corrupted, then it won't be able to recover anything, but it's worth a shot.
Personally, I've already had that happen and really I never lost anything all that important. Mostly what I lost was my school work from long ago, so that's not a big issue in the grand scheme of things. It is really sad when it happens. With the price of storage going down I'd highly recommend buying a terabyte hard drive and back things up to that unless you need more. I have my laptop, my parents, and the family computer backed up to one and there is plenty of room still left so we keep two version of each computer on it. Losing a month or two of work is sad but way worse than losing everything.
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NOT SURE GET IT FIXED
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I bought my laptop and ordered a second laptop just in the event I had problems. My laptop works fine. It is funny that you asked about this, but my backup laptop died on me. I awakened one morning, turned on my backup laptop, and got a black screen. I had problems with my original laptop, but my husband paid $155 to get it fixed. I am thankful for the fact that I have a laptop. I would go to the wi-fi hot spot, but my husband put a stop to that when he had me order internet service through HughesNet. He is paying for it, so I am not squawking. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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I would be lost. Im not a computer person so i have no clue what to do. Probably make my husband fix it actually
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I telecommute from home but have company back-up computers. If my own PC died, I'd head to the shop immediately if I couldn't fix it myself.
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This actually happened to me this morning. I tried rebooting several times, unsuccessfully, then I turned off the circuit breaker at the back of the pc and tried again--nothing. I flipped the breaker off again and left it off over an hour; this time the computer came back on. I immediately backed up all my documents and will leave the external back-up drive connected until the pc can be checked out (or crashes--whichever happens first). I was really sweating it because my last manual back-up was in October.
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I have gotten so dependent on my comp.I am on it all day practically.I am not much for tv but i still enjoy the radio too.
FIX IT FAST!!!
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If my computer stopped working I would take my computer right to the Apple store, see if they can fix it and if not buy a new one. I cannot live without my Mac.
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>:( i do not know what i am going to do i have become so dependant on the computor but in 3 or 4 months i will lose it so i guess i will find out
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I have crashed and burned several computers ... so I have learned that any of my important stuff is stored on memory sticks ... not going to lose any more info.
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Yes, its foolish not to back up.
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Get it fixed if it is economical. If not, buy a new one.
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That's easy you get it repaired if you can't do it yourself. At least that it what I do.
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Get it repaired immediately!
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Just stop working...seems kind of vague but if it did happen like that it wouldn't be the end of the world. I keep my stuff backed up and I would take it into best buy to see what was wrong.
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I can't go a day without a computer. I had an eighteen month old laptop that crashed forty five days ago. I had oto go out and buy a new one that evening because I had a big project that I was working on. One night's wages wasted on buying a new computer but I still had another eight days worth of project that were salvaged. I do not keep anything on my computer that I need so it isn't quite as traumatic for me. My crashed computer needs a new hard drive which will cost me one hundred and seventy five dollars to get but I may do it just in case this one crashes.
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I simply cannot be without my desktop. I would try to fix it myself. If I can't fix it time for a new computer.
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I can't imagine not having my computer, one time my dog chewed through the laptop charger and I freaked out and went without two days, which was miserable and my husband found one for $60 and we didn't have the money so he worked out a deal with his cousin and we paid him back as much we could and he worked off the rest.
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Fix it with the spare parts that I bought already ahahaha All prepared if something happens already.
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i would probably think it was the end of the world because i gotta have my computer
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Something like that has happened to me before. It's very traumatic. I felt like I had just lost my purse or something with all the anxiety that comes with that.
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Just had that problem and had to replace computer, fortunately most of our old files were still able to be transferred from the hard drive; but best to back up!
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other than for fusion cash, it really wouldnt bother me. seems lately i've become mostly bored with things online.
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Yeah i know what you mean. One of my daughters went to My Space and after that my computer went bonkers I lost everything. I had to take it in and they had to do a total erasing everything. I was so upset. I told my daughter they were banned from going on My Space again