wtwjgc (Joe) wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 19 May 2013 10:05:30 +0100, Flyi�ソスg �ソスu�ソス 2�ソス13 + on desktop
>>>>> croaked:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Mornin' from a dry, warmer, overcast but bright South Yorkshire.
>>>>>> Looks like BYT might peek out soon but not here yet with air
>>>>>> temperature at
>>>>>> 11.8�ソスC (53.2�ソスF). barometric pressure on the up at 1013 mB and
>>>>>> relative humidity again at 80%. WW reckons it's 12.8�ソスC, 1012.9
>>>>>> mB and 73%. Forecast is for partly cloudy with a 10% chance of
>>>>>> falling wet stuff all day with temperature to rise to 17.2�ソスC
>>>>>> (63.0�ソスF) by early afternoon and to remain steady until tea time..
>>>>>
>>>>> Good morning FN,
>>>>> Any news on Nettie?
>>>>>
>>>>>> Have a good day one and all.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, you too.
>>>>>
>>>> No change, I'm afraid. I'll get my acquaintance at the pooter
>>>> shop to examine it for me tomorrow. Perhaps a new HD is required.
>>>> If so he can do that and then hopefully I can fire it ip and use
>>>> the backup Macrium mirror of the hard drive to put everything back
>>>> on the new drive including the 2GB recovery partitionv. If not I
>>>> could get one from ebay ( there were a few on there yesterday).
>>>> Then I could do a recovery on that, and hopefully transfer
>>>> everything onto that.
>>>
>>> Just a thought - have you tried holding down F10 while booting and
>>> going into disk check?
>>> It might allow you to reformat drive.
>>>
>> All that does is absolutely nowt. It just spends several minutes
>> with the flashing cursor then the same error message as before,
>> unfortunately.
>
> Is your BIOS up to date?
>
>
http://knowhow.com/article.dhtml?articleReference=1322&country=uk
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It should be Joe, but who knows. Now Nettie is the hands of the
professional who reckons that it is the HD that is defunct. As he has
quite a few other jobs in hand then it's going to take 5 days or so to
get round to it. So I'm only got a desktop to use atm. How restricting
that is now I've got used to having Nettie around the place.