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PCDaddy
Win 9x/ME could cope with bad sectors.. XP is not so forgiving.. more bad
sectors will appear eventually, and the system will become more unstable.. I
can't see the point in waiting for the inevitable, regardless of backup
policy..
Time Computers do offer a three year extended warranty with new purchases,
but I doubt very much that it covers old recovery CDs and certainly will NOT
include free calls to Technical Support.. I suggested to John that he calls
into one of their salesrooms for confirmation..
Re replacing drives.. you go to a store and buy one according to your needs
and means.. if the store can supply an OEM XP CD with the purchase of
hardware, that gets over the problem of trying to move the contents of a
hidden partition to a similar partition on a new drive.. if means will
stretch to a full retail XP, all the better as it would be easily
transferable from one computer to another in the future..
As far as I know, Serif's policy of allowing older versions to be downloaded
freely is a marketing ploy to get the user to upgrade to latest versions
once having seen how good the product is.. that does not take anything away
from the free programs.. I have not received e-mail from any company as a
result of downloading free programs from Serif.. I have never had need to
download OpenOffice, but have never heard of any unsolicited mail arriving
due to downloading it..
--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User
"If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept
it all to themselves." - Lane Kirkland
"PCDaddy" <PCDaddy.1qr48y@> wrote in message
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>
> John
>
> Replace the hdd asap.. re-installing Windows will not fix bad sectors..
> it
> just avoids them.. save all important data to CD or some other
> medium..
>
> No it won't actually repair them, but a lot of times, you may not get
> bad sectors for a long period of time and the hd is usable and the
> basic problem is patched\fixed\ignored. I have a 6 year old maxtor 80
> gig that had this problem twice and it still runs like a charm. I
> simply back my data , which should be done anyway.
>
> The chances of Time Computers having recovery CDs for your computer is
> zero,
> most likely.. if you can, go to one of their stores, as calling the
> technical support is expensive.. if you can, find a supplier who will
> sell
> you a new hard drive and OEM Windows XP SP2 CD..
>
>
>
> There is a three year extended warranty and you get charged according
> to your policy when you bought the pc. If the op has his, he might
> still be under warranty and might get free calls.
>
> Disconnect the present drive, and fit the new one.. install Windows..
> once
> up and running, reconnect the old drive as a slave and recover anything
> you
> might have missed when you saved stuff.. email and address book for
> instance.. before connecting to the internet, ensure that the XP
> firewall is
> running, then connect and do the updates to Windows and your preferred
> ant-virus and firewall programs..
>
> Fit the new one? That might be jumping the gun a bit, the op doesn't
> even know what to get yet. The op doesn't know if he can install
> windows..eg, hidden windows files, try to copy to another hard drive.
>
> Unless Time supplied bundled software on CD, you will lose that.. to
> make up
> for it, Serif offer some great free downloads at
> http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/ .. they may not be the latest
> versions,
> but they are all good solid programs.. Open Office is a free office
> suite..
> it is not exactly MS Office 2003, but gets good enough reviews from
> some..
> http://www.openoffice.org/product/
>
> Good solid programs as long as you agree for them to send your info to
> other places and send you junk mail. If you don't mind that then yes.
>
> Good luck..
>
>
> --
> Mike Hall
>
>
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