Rebuilding a machine is a pain no matter how you approach it (although some people have offered some good advice here that will make things easier). There is a delicate balance between backing up as many files as possible to make the restoration as easy as possible, but also making sure you avoid any of the files that you suspect might be corrupt and the cause of the problems you are having. I recently had a hard drive failure with my Mac, and after spending an entire weekend getting up and running again, I bought a 100GB firewire drive, which will make life much easier should this ever occur again.
Christian On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 09:10 AM, Michael Kear wrote: > Yes, thanks Dave, and the others who are giving me the benefit of their > experience in these things. Dave I did see your advice about > rebuilding the system. I took so long to build it the first time - > only > a couple of months ago, that I really want to exhaust all the other > possibilities first. That's a BIG job for me - not really up to speed > on XPPro things. However I'm fast running out of other things to try. > > This machine isn't just used for my web development. I have a really > tiny business - just me - this machine does a multitude of jobs for me, > my business, my family etc. Rebuilding it isn't a trivial task, but as > I said, there aren't many other possibilities left to try. > > > Thanks for your suggestions, and thanks for giving a damn. > > > Cheers, > Michael Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > AFP Webworks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
