On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:04:25 -0700, you wrote:
>Hugh suggested,
>> I suggest that you see the IT guys - they
>> should be able to restore your OS and Progs easily as for the
>> data then if using the network then it should all be on
>> the Councils servers.
>
>This is good advice - just a cuationary note: if you want to
>retain the data on the laptop, over even think you might,
>emphasize to the admins that you'd like them to recover
>the data. Otherwise, they may tend to do the easy thing
>and just reformat and reinstall and give you back pristine
>drive with no useful data. Seen it happen.
>
>Given that trashing the boot sector is rare, you need to
>assess whether your PC was attacked by a virus or whether
>the drive is failing. If it were my personal PC, I'd buy
>a new drive, reinstall the OS on it, then put the old
>drive into a USB external drive enclosure and then copy
>the data over to the new drive. It will cost you a couple
>hundred Euros to get things back in order, but if the
>data is valueable, it should be worth it.
Gary
In the UK we are still on old fashioned POUNDS and Pence only the sensible
foreigners use Euros but our treasury is waiting for the economic climate to be
right or in other words it isn't quite matching the Pound and Mr Brown cannot
make his pension fund out of the exchange rate just at the moment.
Sir Hugh of Bognor
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