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My laptop wouldn't restart, just took like 15 minutes before it loaded up, I was even trying safe start and it wouldn't work. Finally it worked, I have so much stuff on here for my business....can't even express how much that would have sucked:eek:. I need to get a backup drive to store copy of everything, fricken-a that scared me. Luckily my main stuff for biz is stored on a data server I can access anytime but would have been screwed on all the stuff on my laptop. Whoo, need a beer after today, was like 1 thing after another.

Somethings wrong though b/c it doesn't seem as smooth/quick as it was, like on Youtube videos load choppily now, never did that before. Even on widows media player seems choppy, nothing else, just videos....not sure whats wrong, didn't find a virus?
 
Have a beer, then order a backup online!
 
Yah? That happened to me. My husband bought me a new computer; all my documents for work are on the other one's hard drive it has been two months and he still has not emptied the stuff off the old hard drive to the new one. I sure can't. Dead as a doornail. But I am not the computer geek - he is. so it can be saved. But laptops only last 2-3 years - so back it all up or take it in and they will retreive it for you.
If you are having issues now, it is a matter of time.
 
Backup, backup and then backup.

Meghan will be checking next week to make sure you buy some kind of backup.
 
Sounds like you need to backup NOW!! I had to reformat my PC last week and I lost a TON of family pictures, documents, etc., etc.. I couldn't imagine if my biz info was on there! Dude, back it up now while you can. Then take it to a reputable computer repair shop. Sounds like your video driver might be corrupt? Who knows....
 
Sorry to hear that your laptop is acting up but yea I agree with everyone here back it up. I purchased an external hard drive and I've dumped all information from the PC and the laptop so at least important documents I have saved but there is always the minor information.

Hope it works out for you, keep us posted.
 
Nica said:
Sorry to hear that your laptop is acting up but yea I agree with everyone here back it up. I purchased an external hard drive and I've dumped all information from the PC and the laptop so at least important documents I have saved but there is always the minor information.

Hope it works out for you, keep us posted.
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Any reccomendations on seperate drives? I remember those Zippy thingamabobers back in the day.
 
zip drive?? Nah, get you an external hard drive! Actually, I don't know what the best backup device would be. Do you have a DVD burner on your laptop? If so, you can store over 4 gigs on a single sided DVD! If the info is simply text then you would probably never fill it!!
 
dengood1 said:
zip drive?? Nah, get you an external hard drive! Actually, I don't know what the best backup device would be. Do you have a DVD burner on your laptop? If so, you can store over 4 gigs on a single sided DVD! If the info is simply text then you would probably never fill it!!
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Mix of everything, videos, text, tons of PDF files etc.
 
DVD should still work fine. Use as many as needed.....they're cheap too.
 
Buy another laptop for home!:D
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Surfer said:
Mix of everything, videos, text, tons of PDF files etc.
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You might wanna clean up your videos. They use a lot of space and slow down computer a lot. Also if you can, recheck you PC for viruses with at least two different softwares.
 
Surfer,
My husband is just going to use a usb hard drive shell holder- he is going to pull the hard drive, put it in the shell, then plug the usb port into my new laptop and copy the data off.
Take an hour to two. The key is having the USB hard driver holder - he had to go buy it, hence the daily. He said it was cheap.
Just fyi, Surfer!
lauren
 
Surfer said:
Any reccomendations on seperate drives? I remember those Zippy thingamabobers back in the day.
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Well the reason I went with an external hard drive is because I used some CD's/DVD's and the draw back is that over time the information gets corrupted and eventually you won't be able to retreave the information stored on the CD's or DVD's. I found this out with pictures. That's why I ended up purchasing an external hard drive.

I remember the those Zipp drives, they were okay but didnt really work okay. Technology has advised where you can just connect an additional hard drive via USB...it's wicked you just plug and transfer information, great back up if you ask me.

I purchased this one: Comstar Platinum 500GB External Hard Drive With One-Touch Backup

I've re-searched lots of them and found this one to be friendly user and the price was right.
 
sparkie said:
Buy another laptop for home!:D
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Nice Sparki, I just love having a laptop. Makes things easy around the house, very versatile :D take AG where ever you go lol
 
Nica said:
Well the reason I went with an external hard drive is because I used some CD's/DVD's and the draw back is that over time the information gets corrupted and eventually you won't be able to retreave the information stored on the CD's or DVD's. I found this out with pictures. That's why I ended up purchasing an external hard drive.

I remember the those Zipp drives, they were okay but didnt really work okay. Technology has advised where you can just connect an additional hard drive via USB...it's wicked you just plug and transfer information, great back up if you ask me.

I purchased this one: Comstar Platinum 500GB External Hard Drive With One-Touch Backup

I've re-searched lots of them and found this one to be friendly user and the price was right.
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Yah Nica, it will work, but for a mobile computer? You don't want to have to hook it up everytime you use the dang computer.
Laurenn
my three cents!
 
ltoman said:
Yah Nica, it will work, but for a mobile computer? You don't want to have to hook it up everytime you use the dang computer.
Laurenn
my three cents!
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No Lauren, you only use it when you want to back up any information. You don't need it every time you turn on the computer. You still use the hard drive on the lap top but any critical information you want to store you pull out the external hard drive and save a copy there.

It works really nice.
 
I can't stress enough how important it is to back up your hard drive. Most people and a lot of businesses finally realize how important it is when it's too late.
 
I use a virus-free Mac... none of my Apple products have done any weird stuff.. I'm always fixing the Windows computers around here.. never fixing mine though...

It's like buying a car that never needs to be maintained. :awesome:
 
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