On 09/01/11 10:14, Peter Merchant wrote:
On another front, A friend using XP had his computer fail. It was in
perennial reboot mode. It had 40G hard disk that was full, and I think
they had unplugged it to stop it when it ceased to work for them. Thanks
to Ubuntu disk I was able to boot the live disk, copy 18 GB of data onto
a backup disk of mine, repartition so that there was a data partition,
and then once I had sorted out XP, get them back working again. But not
for long I fear. Unless they do some data maintenance It will occur
again.
Can anyone recommend a PC support person/organisation who I can
recommend to my friend? Since his retirement on Medical grounds about 18
months ago he has been using friends and his ex-employers IT department
to keep things up and running.
As a friend I don't want to charge, but also do not want to spend lots
of my time sorting him out. His main problem is basically that they do
not do any maintenance on the PC's, and his son has stuffed it full of
programs like Autocad.
Perhaps not appropriate here as it's XP. ( But in my sorting out of his
computer it nearly became Ubuntu!)
Peter,
Shame you didn't suggest buying a bigger hard drive (500GB SATA £35,
PATA £70) and also put Ubuntu on for future fixing. I suppose you could
still add a second drive and show them how to save all their files there.
As far as support, there must be someone local to you and getting them
to add a second drive and give advice would be a good test to see how
good they are.
John.
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