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Hey Koishi…I’m gonna let my husband Zack type here,he’s a computer genius….so here…
There our two options
1. Get a SATA/USB IDE/USB connector depending on your hard drive and hook it up to another computer to get your pictures off. It is something like this
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2020-OTB&cpc=SCH
2. If you have your Vista CD you should be able to reinstall without formating. It has been a while since I did a Vista install but when you get to the drive selection you should be able to select the drive and then click next. Formating should only happen if you click on the format button.
http://www.theeldergeekvista.com/images/Vista%20Clean%20Installation/Vista%20Final%20-0032.jpg
The installer will rename the old windows directory to something else but all your other files should be intact. Then after you get your photos backed up I would go back and reinstall Vista and this time format the drive.
Hope this helps!!And this is why I never install updates. Ever. Last time I did, my entire computer crashed and I lost everything, including the stuff on the harddrive (I took it in). And my mother’s computer did the same thing, only she didn’t lose everything, just about 400 photos she’d taken over the last 2 months (400 out of probably 15000 she had on there), but all her older stuff (the important stuff) she still had. She was swearing when she told me this, hours after it had happened. I’ve never heard her swear before! 😯
I say listen to the computer guru’s advice (meaning people that aren’t me).
thank you guys so much! and Dragon Mistress, thank your husband for me! that will save me quite a bit of money!
nothing has worked so far, so i am going to get one of those cables.
I never would have thought of these options on my own! thanx again every one!I highly recommend Spinrite…saved mine twice in as many weeks.
We’re gonna get a back up harddrive and back up all the computers with it…so that when the computer crashes, we can just reformat and not have to worry about losing our stuff.
Kyrin
Spinrite is fantastic.
And my family uses the off-site backup system Carbonite. So far it’s been great. My dad had to restore his computer and it was no problem at all.
Kyrin wrote:I highly recommend Spinrite…saved mine twice in as many weeks.
We’re gonna get a back up harddrive and back up all the computers with it…so that when the computer crashes, we can just reformat and not have to worry about losing our stuff.
Kyrin
The only caveat I would mention with an external hard drive is research before you invest. The LaCies used to have a problem of heating up very fast and literally frying themselves! Very bad if you had a big drive like 120GB! 😯 Some hard drives are advertised as being the best and come with an expensive price tag to back up that claim, and they can end up being the worst!
purpledragonclaw wrote:Kyrin wrote:I highly recommend Spinrite…saved mine twice in as many weeks.
We’re gonna get a back up harddrive and back up all the computers with it…so that when the computer crashes, we can just reformat and not have to worry about losing our stuff.
Kyrin
The only caveat I would mention with an external hard drive is research before you invest. The LaCies used to have a problem of heating up very fast and literally frying themselves! Very bad if you had a big drive like 120GB! 😯 Some hard drives are advertised as being the best and come with an expensive price tag to back up that claim, and they can end up being the worst!
Our plan is to get the 300GB hard drive,
transfer all of our photos, artwork, music and stories to it, then shut it down and shelve it. So heating up shouldn’t be an issue…it will only be used for storage.Biggest thing we’ve been freaking out about when my computer crashes is the fact that all of our photographs are on it, along with Bill’s stories, my artwork and a lot of music.
So So if we have them backed up and somewhere safe, then we won’t have to worry about losing those files.
Kyrin
My laptop is back up and running~!! and i got all my info saved! thank your husband for me Dragon Mistriss! that was a very big help and saved me a lot! I am very great full!
KoishiiKitty wrote:My laptop is back up and running~!! and i got all my info saved! thank your husband for me Dragon Mistriss! that was a very big help and saved me a lot! I am very great full!
I’m so glad that you got all your info!! I will tell him, he loves it when he can help!
Congrats! I didn’t understand a thing in this thread. Oh, I’m soo far behind. I used to fix computers before Windows came out….. 😳
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