Text 15681, 100 rader
Skriven 2006-02-21 07:40:00 av George Vandervort (1:382/8)
  Kommentar till text 15675 av Jean Parrot (1:123/140)
Ärende: ZA ?
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Hello Jean!


Hmmm.. All's well that end's well  ??  :-))

Tuesday February 21 2006 08:21, JEAN PARROT wrote to GEORGE VANDERVORT:

 JP>     Hello George, nice talking to you !
 JP>
 GV>> Restoring from a Backup Image sounds like a good plan to me..
 JP>
 JP>         It could have been, it should have been but was not. I could
 JP>    not get the image to work. It got back on the Thinkpad and was
 JP>    working but in a funny way. I had lost all my icons save three, the
 JP>    Office shortcut bar was nowhere to be seen or restored. If I
 JP>    changed a parameter somewhere, on restart, it was gone. Strange !


this is where Multiple Backup Images may have come in handy??

Unless the Computer was already grunged up before the Images were made?


 JP>
 JP>         I then tried the IBM hidden Restore and Recovery from the
 JP>    hidden partition on the HD. That also failed of all things. Ok,
 JP>    says I, I installed XP Pro by itself but the drivers for the
 JP>    ethernet or the modem were in that hidden partition and proprietary
 JP>    to IBM. I then could not communicate at all. Sad case.

This option has save my butt before..


 JP>
 JP>         After these many hours of sweat, I slid the Thinkpad under
 JP> the
 JP>    bed and called my daughter in Montreal. She will post to me, the
 JP>    Restore CDs for this TP. I can see no other solution out of this
 JP>    mire. Then it will be a story of getting all the updates again.
 JP>    Wise and cautious me had saved all the pertinent data on the HD
 JP>    before attempting any of these drastic procedures.



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                          But on the brite side
                          Junk in Your Registry
                          is cleaned out an your
                          Laptop should run faster?


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 JP>
 JP>         I am on a spare Thinkpad, I now have four of these going
 JP> here,
 JP>    one belongs to the Lady of the place but I can use any other at
 JP>    will. Two of them are rebuilt ones from eBay. Correction...I have
 JP>    three of them going...for the time being.
 JP>
 JP>         Oh !  ZA is running on all three.
 JP>
 JP>
 JP>    Big sweat is over. I am back on.
 JP>              But the G41 is asleep for a while.
 JP>
 JP>
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 JP>  + Origin: Try Our Web Based QWK: DOCSPLACE.ORG (1:123/140)


Regards,
George Vandervort
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