Topic: Hard drive woes

[Clive]

Oh I have the discs.  But it will only give a very limited installation if you have used up all your lives.  TBH I'm better off loading Office 2000 which does not have any restrictions on the number of times it can be  downloaded. 

[Rik]

You can usually overcome the restrictions with a phone call, Clive.

[Clive]

OK, I'll give it a try. 

[Clive]

Things are going fine so far and I've now reinstalled all my drivers and a lot of software.  Some things that didn't get backed up were my e-mail addresses and bookmarks.     It's going to be a long haul. 

[Simon]

Ouch!  Those are what I'd miss most.    How come the Acronis software didn't save them?

[sam]

Things are going fine so far and I've now reinstalled all my drivers and a lot of software.  Some things that didn't get backed up were my e-mail addresses and bookmarks.     It's going to be a long haul.

you should use chrome and save it too your google cloud.

[Clive]

Acronis  leaves a lot to be desired so don't count on it. It didn't save my contacts nor my bookmarks which I have to find all over again.     I rescued some of my contacts from a backup onto a CD. 

[Clive]

I have a GMail address Sam and save some stuff onto that. 

[Rik]

What drive letters were you using, Clive?

[Clive]

I think the back-up drive was F.

[Rik]

Contents and bookmarks are stored on C, so unless you backed that up, those files would be missing.

[Clive]

Sorry Rik, I thought you were asking for the letter of the external drive which contained the C drive image.   

[Rik]

Windows would normally assign the next available drive letter to the external HD, what drives were allocated to D & E?

[Clive]

CD Rom and memory stick. The memory stick was of more value than Acronis and had backed up stuff without me even knowing about it.   

[Rik]

If Acronis imaged the C drive, the files should be there, Clive. They certainly are on my backups.