my laptop is fucked

[Ian Cashman]

i know you can do it. its called partitioning. (HELP ANYONE??)

 

good idea just to store all your files on the non program partition. then if owt fucks up it, itll just be the program files that are fucked.

 

you need to check ya internet pc for viruses tho by the sound of it

[Aaron]

You can split the drive in two after windows is on it using Partition Magic. I've done exactly the same. i've got 30 gig for C, with windows and apps, and 80 gig for all my other media, like AVI's MP3s, Installation media etc etc

Edited June 30, 2004 by Aaron

[Tony P]

sounds cool, think i might try this, so what would you split a 60 gig harddrive into, if i am mainly gonna use it for music production

 

 

the pc at home is totally fucked now, same as the laptop.

not looking good

[Aaron]

I think maybe a 20 gig C drive for Windows as apps and a 40 gig D drive for storage should be more than sufficient.

 

Would also recommend that once you've got your PC/laptop setup to how you want it, you use Norton Ghost to make an image of your C drive and dump it to CD (2 or 3 CD's roughly) that way if it all goes FUBAR for any reason you can restore it back in about 10 minutes, without loosing any of your hard work that stored on D

Edited July 1, 2004 by Aaron

[Guest]

QUOTE (Tony.P @ Jul 1 2004, 08:51)

sounds cool, think i might try this, so what would you split a 60 gig harddrive into, if i am mainly gonna use it for music production the pc at home is totally fucked now, same as the laptop. not looking good

I just rang Lisa to boot it up in safe mode and make a restore point / set the settings back to the last good configuration, but it aint having it !

 

Your system 32 file is corrupted matey - best take it to the PC shop and get it fixed, although she has set up the other tower, so you only have a basic drive now with the basics on !

 

Partitions are the way forward !

[Tony P]

QUOTE (Maria @ Jul 1 2004, 10:47)

I just rang Lisa to boot it up in safe mode and make a restore point / set the settings back to the last good configuration, but it aint having it !

thats is exactly the same thing that happened to the laptop, defo something strange going on.

 

[Guest]

It has to be something you have installed to corrupt the file.

 

You wana be carefull what you download / accept and make sure it's bug free etc

[Guest]

Update on yer PC Tony - the PC is dead. Lisa is taking it to hospital

[Tony P]

just spoke to lisa

 

hard drive needs to be replaced, gonna cost £80 and will lose most of the stuff on it.

 

bloke don't recon it's a virus, just thinks it's knackered...... i still think it's odd that the laptop and the pc both went in a matter of 2 days....................

[Tony P]

well they didn't have any more of my laptop in stock, so i got a refund.

 

i'm now on the look out for a new one, any suggestions guys

[Ian Cashman]

QUOTE (Tony.P @ Jul 2 2004, 10:51)

well they didn't have any more of my laptop in stock, so i got a refund. i'm now on the look out for a new one, any suggestions guys

well youve bought the soundcard so youre sorted there.

 

just get a similar spec laptop to the one you had tony.

 

as much memory as it can hold 512 should be a good starting point.

 

theres no hard and fast rules of what to suggest to you to be honest.

[Lisa]

I had to get a new fooking hardrive for mine Bloody thing went excatly over all my docs too, so lost the lot

 

But pc is well again now

[Guest]

i dont know how my computer copes with what i ask it to do

 

its only a 500MHz celeron with 256MB of RAM. yet it runs fruity and reason like a dream

 

must be the second processor (i wasnt aware fruity or reason suported dual processors but there you go)

Edited July 3, 2004 by Mr_Happy

[Tony P]

QUOTE (Ian Cashman @ Jul 3 2004, 11:20)

QUOTE (Tony.P @ Jul 2 2004, 10:51) well they didn't have any more of my laptop in stock, so i got a refund. i'm now on the look out for a new one, any suggestions guys well youve bought the soundcard so youre sorted there.   just get a similar spec laptop to the one you had tony.   as much memory as it can hold 512 should be a good starting point.   theres no hard and fast rules of what to suggest to you to be honest. cheers Ian, i'm gonna look today, see if i can get a good price for a toshiba, as i've been told they are very good machines, still gonna get the same specs i had in other laptop thou

[Chris Hawkes]

i'll sort you out with the same stuff as before matey, got soem sample cd's for you too.