Posted on 02/03/2015 6:27:08 AM PST by MasterMason
I just re-joined FR and I would like to post to my local NC state board but I am not able to. How do I get the ability to do that?
If I understood what you were saying, you advised to get another hard drive to put the new OS on and save the old one to put back if necessary.
Not to hard to do on a desktop box. You toss the new drive in an unused slot, unplug the connector and power from the old drive and connect to the new and load up your OpSystem. You can even leave the original drive in place and all you need do to reverse the procedure is swap the connector and power plugs back. The original drive will never know you put it in stasis. Well - other than a bazillion WinUpdates to catch up on but..
Face has a laptop.
To follow your advice she would need to find/purchase a second laptop drive, remove the original, install the new, and then load in the OS of choice while placing the original drive in a safe place for protection against creeks rising and such. While I agree that is an almost failsafe way to do it (preserves your files and gives you a emergency rescue route should things go awry) it is an added layer of expense. It is the additional expense of that laptop drive that will probably make that a no-go for her.
Setting up dual boot is also not something that you would want a non-experienced person to attempt on her own. Or at least, I would never ask someone to attempt it because I would be the one that would need to ‘fix’ it afterwards.
And there’s a minor problem of at least 3/4 of the continent between Face and I so I wouldn’t be able to fix it.
If there wasn’t that bunch of acreage between us I would already have headed to Searchlight (you know - to sell HorribleHarry a new exercise machine - I’d name it Larry for old time’s sake) and taken a minor detour past Face’s Place to help beat that thing into submission. Or resurrect it from the dead. Or something.
;-)
lol
My paternal grandmother was tied in with Weight Watchers when I was growing up. She never changed much, so I’m pretty sure Weight Watchers would have had more success building around a name like Weight Whackers, or some such.
Anywhoo — watching grandma I learned that cottage cheese helps you keep the pounds you’ve already got. I don’t know how many slices of perfectly good cantaloupe she desecrated with it, but her own advancing age worked more rapidly to trim her figure. It’s not a concern, but if I ever feared wasting away, I’d be into cottage cheese bigtime. I’d just have to serve it with something to mask the flavor.
I’m thinkin’ lasagna.
Cottage cheese is a very poor choice, dairy-products wise.
Cat is still upset with all that vacuuming yesterday. Be wary, it’s plotting a counterstrike involving a shattering.
That will only make it worse.
OH yes I do!
I called yesterday but the person I wanted to speak with was off, but I was told by an “office worker” that there were no recovery CDs. That doesn’t make sense because they need to restore the hard drives on the rentals that come back.
So I will call today and if they have them, I will take this monstrosity over and have them erase the hard drive so I can start over.
I need to be able to print and I also need access to my documents.
Birman...Just like the late, great PV. :o]
Classy!
Restoring back to factory settings isn’t date related. You’re looking at restore points, which are different.
Very nice!
I can’t restore it farther back that May 21. I need to go back further or I run the risk of restoring the anti-virus that caused all this mess in the first place.
Or...I need to know how to find a restore point that isn’t listed...like create one?
Restore points aren’t right. You need the factory install disks which should be in a special partition accessible by that application.
I’ve never had luck with restore points either.
How do I find that?
The problem will be that if you do a factory restore it will return everything to the original condition that was there when you first fired it up. The operative word here is EVERYTHING. Including that antiviriwhatever that HP loaded on there to start with.
That said, since it is an HP, probably buried in some menu that starts with ‘HP’ is the restore stuff. (I don’t have an intact HP in original configuration or I could tell you where they hide it.) Maybe HP has a ‘help’ thingie that may have the answer and tell you how to do it. It will nag you constantly about ‘if you do this you’ll lose everything’ but it will get you back to the beginning.
I have an intact Acer (meaning I haven’t finished playing with it yet so all the factory stuff is there still) and they hide the recovery thing in a folder called ‘Acer’ and then under ‘Acer Recovery Management’ and then under ‘Recovery option’, and then restore factory settings... In other words they make it so you cannot do it accidentally because you need to click through so many steps.
Look for folders that are labeled with HP’s name and see if any one of then has the recovery thingie in it. And as I said, if they have a ‘help’ function try searching that for ‘recovery’ or ‘restore’..
And then after you do restore it, you will need to figure out how to get their viral unsolution off of it again..
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