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| Thread ID: 113921 | 2010-11-09 21:54:00 | Not a good day yesterday | Thomas01 (317) | PC World Chat |
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| 1151741 | 2010-11-09 21:54:00 | First my desktop refused to boot up. I found my email situation bad - nothing and no computer would allow me to get any. OK now I know it was Telstra Clear at fault not me. A database file I had worked on for ages has vanished into thin air and I must do the work again. Still puzzled over this one. My Password Agent folder refused to open and let me get my passwords. PC World Forums came to the rescue here thankfully. I tried to go into the local shopping centre but suffered a bad angina on the way - probably brought on by the above and had to go home. Today things are better. But it was the first problem that gave me most worry - my computer refusing to start. Took me nearly an hour to find the fault - but ten years ago I would have found it in seconds. Simple really. I had discovered an old 3.5 floppy and looked at it (shows how old my desktop is!). It was a good program about the solar system and well worth keeping - glad I had found it and I copied it onto a CD. You have probably guessed what I did. Yep - left the floppy in the computer so when I tried booting up the next day the computer looked at the "a" drive first and found a disk there but no instructions about booting up so just sat there. I had forgotten about this possible snag, and I bet lots of you out there have also. Which is why I decided to write this little lot to remind us all that this can and still does happen. Removing the disk cured the problem. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 1151742 | 2010-11-09 22:00:00 | Hahaha thanks for that Thomas These things happen |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1151743 | 2010-11-09 22:45:00 | Happened to one of my caving buddies, after he completely re installed his OS and it still didn't boot form the hard drive he found the problem Doh! | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1151744 | 2010-11-09 23:00:00 | I've done the same thing too. Completely forgot there was a floppy in there and for some stupid reason jumped to the conclusion that my hard drive had died. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1151745 | 2010-11-09 23:33:00 | I just knew there was a reason why I didn't put a floppy drive in my current PC Possibly to ensure I didn't have problems like that. My story and I'm sticking to it. :) |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1151746 | 2010-11-09 23:55:00 | We have users here who leave their usb drives in and they wont boot they look sheepish once you remove it and reboot LOL |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1151747 | 2010-11-10 03:18:00 | We have users here who leave their usb drives in and they wont boot they look sheepish once you remove it and reboot LOL Been caught out with that one myself DOH !! Esp if I'm using one of the Imation Atom Drives (www.dove.co.nz) - they are real tiny, and if plugged into the rear USB ports, very easy to forget. (and yes they are that small in physical size) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1151748 | 2010-11-10 03:28:00 | Been caught out with that one myself DOH !! Esp if I'm using one of the Imation Atom Drives (www.dove.co.nz) - they are real tiny, and if plugged into the rear USB ports, very easy to forget. (and yes they are that small in physical size) Hmm, I like the look of those - does the exposed USB port seem to hold together OK? |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1151749 | 2010-11-10 03:57:00 | What a small USB flash drive you have! All the better to lose it somewhere! :lol: |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1151750 | 2010-11-10 04:45:00 | Been caught out with that one myself DOH !! Esp if I'm using one of the Imation Atom Drives (www.dove.co.nz) - they are real tiny, and if plugged into the rear USB ports, very easy to forget. (and yes they are that small in physical size) I've had one similar to that for the last year. 8GB A-Data one. The looks I get from people when I hand it to them are astonishing! |
xyz823 (13649) | ||
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