[AT] OT Computer help

[charlie hill]

HEHEHE HEEHHEE HAW HAW ROFLMAO.

Phil, no offense but I AM the company.  President, Vice Pres. Sec.
CEO and maintenance man AND IT man.  It's a one man shop.  There is about a 
50/50 chance that this problem is a hard drive/memory problem or a software 
problem.  The appraisal software that I use is a very complex integrated 
system that is constantly going online to pull down maps and data and back 
up files to an off site vendor.  It uses huge amounts of resources.  They 
recently came out  with this new version and have had tons of problems with 
it to the point that they have had to hire dozens if not hundreds of 
additional tech people.  Many users have gotten mad and moved to another 
vendor.

Luckily for me I had saved the old version to the external drive when I 
installed the new one.  Also, so many folks have raised cane with the vendor 
that they are continuing to support the old version.
I was able, by luck, to figure out how run the software on the old drive and 
I'm back to work without any further problems so far.
I also moved a bunch of photo files, etc. from the main drive to the 
external to give the main drive some breathing room.

Only problem is that I just  missed the deadline for getting a file in for 
the second time in two days.  We get scored for that kind of thing and it 
effects future assignments but I can't help it.  I did the best I could.

My business files are backed up on an off site location provided (for a fee) 
by the software vendor.  The operating system is copied to the external 
drive but is not bootable.

Thanks for your help and to some others who contacted me off list.

Charlie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <pga2 at hot1.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT Computer help


> Charlie,
> Does your company have an IT department or a "go to guy" that handles this
> type of situation? that's where I'd start. If not, you're going to need
> some diagnostic tools for the hard drive and memory. I find lots of
> problems that look like hard drive problems but turn out to be bad memory.
> Copy what files you can to the external drive. Save at least that much.
> The problem sounds to me like your system has some memory or possibly hard
> drive or mainboard problems. I doubt if there is a quick fix. Sure hope
> you practice the 11th commandment: Thou shalt make backups!
>
> Phil
>
>> I need some help quick!
>>
>> I'm having a problem with the hard drive on my notebook.  I suspect from 
>> a
>> bad lightning storm the other night.  Anyway I have a new external drive
>> and
>> I need to transfer the operating system and some critical work software
>> from
>> the on-board drive in the laptop to the external drive.  I need to do it
>> in
>> such a way that I can boot from the external drive and run the work
>> software.  I've got work to get out today and I don't know any other way
>> to
>> fix the problem or how to transfer the files.   Right now the computer is
>> up
>> and running but I've lost about half of my desktop Icons,  the computer 
>> is
>> crashing and I occasionally get a message saying I have low virtual 
>> memory
>> although there is a good bit of room left on the drive.
>>
>> Thanks for the help.
>>
>> Charlie
>
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