wtwjgc (Joe) wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 20 May 2013 11:36:01 +0100, Flyi�ソスg �ソスu�ソス 2�ソス13 + on desktop
>>>>> croaked:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Mornin' from a warm, dry, dull, overcast and muggy feeling
>>>>>> Monday. No sign of Walter or BYT yet today with air temperature
>>>>>> at 14.0�ソスC (57.2�ソスF), barometric pressure steady at 1013 mB and
>>>>>> relative humidity registering as 83%. WW reckons it's 13.9�ソスC,
>>>>>> 1013.2 mB and 92% in Sheffield. Forecast is for mostly cloudy
>>>>>> with a 20% chance of wet stuff this morning and showers (30%
>>>>>> chance thereof) from 15:00 with temperature to peak at 18.3�ソスC
>>>>>> (64.9�ソスF) late afternoon around tea time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Good morning FN,
>>>>> We are up to a sweltering (;-)) 60�ソスF already :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Will Nettie be going to the doctor today? if so I hope it's
>>>>> something or nothing.
>>>>>
>>>> She's there now. He reckons it is the HD that's defunct but won't
>>>> be able to get round to it for a few days yet though. So I'm
>>>> right hand less still. He doesn't hold out much hope for my
>>>> Macrium mirror being able to be restored on the new drive as, in
>>>> his experience, if doesn't work well that often. He wasn't
>>>> talking specifically Macrium but that method of backup in general.
>>>> That's a comment that surprised me.
>>>
>>> Last August after having problems with my laptop, I got discs sent
>>> out and after installing did a recovery disc. I used it last week to
>>> 'restore' a brand new drive. No problems, other than having to
>>> reinstall updates, etc.
>>>
>> Perhaps when I get it back and try it then you might sent me an
>> idiot's guide prodedure email, to help me if I have a problem, Joe.
>> I find all the techie gobble-de-gook undecipherable these days. I
>> reckon that I suffer from techie dyslexia. :(
>
> I was surprised how easy it was both to create and reinstall.
> I just followed screen instruction (to create recovery disc),
> Reinstalling involved just booting up with disc in drive and pressing
> enter once when requested.
>
Was that booting up with the new HD and no OS installed then, or did
you install an OS first? Trouble with mine is that it just wouldn't
boot up at all, woith or without the recovery USB in place. Perhaps
with a new HD it will. The Macrium backup mirror is on a portable usb
500GB HD, but I also have the backup mirror for my desktop pooter on
that as well so presumably I then plug that in, but without an OS how
will I be able to select the correct mirror file to use?
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flyi...@tiscali.co.uk FN 2�ソス13+. Mungo Brandybuck of Buckland