Memory Loss
Bloody computers!
I've just changed from an old work PC which has had to be returned, to another laptop.
Like a good lad, I've backed up all my old files onto an external drive for security.
And will the new laptop read the old data?Will it buggery !
I've spent hours wrestling with the damned things, but the drive remains resolutely blank.
I've tried it on a friend's PC and on a seven-year old machine running extinct software, and both of them can see everything, but this brand-new Windows machine thinks that my 100GB of photos and files doesn't exist. AAGH !
I've just changed from an old work PC which has had to be returned, to another laptop.
Like a good lad, I've backed up all my old files onto an external drive for security.
And will the new laptop read the old data?Will it buggery !
I've spent hours wrestling with the damned things, but the drive remains resolutely blank.
I've tried it on a friend's PC and on a seven-year old machine running extinct software, and both of them can see everything, but this brand-new Windows machine thinks that my 100GB of photos and files doesn't exist. AAGH !
posted by Moses at
12:37 pm
3 Comments:
talk to the ones you got it from..
By
neek, at 1/3/07 12:45
Blame Windows. What OS is on your new laptop, what was on the old one? It's often a question of FAT 32 vs NTFS.
By
Kaa, at 1/3/07 14:30
Thanks,Ash. Of course the vendors will both say that it's the other piece of equipment.Ho-hum.
Kaa,
Old,XP Professional.
New,XP Media.#
Like you say, it's the Windows.
Time to learn Ubuntu, methinks. Now, there's a Swahili word I've picked up. :o)
By
Moses, at 1/3/07 14:48
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