smilinjack 0 Posted December 22, 2010 As some of you know, my PC crapped out on Sunday. Got it recovered & it's a happy ending. However, this again points up the difficulty in not having a pukka Windows disk-the O/S is preinstalled and although system errors can generally be retrieved, a hardware failure such as the hard drive packing up would leave me seriously buttf**ked. So, has anyone got a Windows Vista Home Premium disk which they no longer need or which they would be prepared to copy for me/lend me to copy to enable me to reinstall if necessary? Thanks in anticipation. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Davehutch-hutchs 0 Posted December 22, 2010 going to send you a pm Alan Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted December 22, 2010 I brought and external hard drive and we have both the pcs backed up on that. Mine didn't come with a disc but had that crappy, please make a back up crap. So its been backed up on hard drive.Which sort of reminds me to do it again.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
smilinjack 0 Posted December 22, 2010 Problem is Rose, if your hard drive fails there's no means of reinstalling an operating system in a new one without a disk. No prob recovering system failures as I've done, & I've now got a second drive installed for backups, but if you have a hardware failure not so straightforward. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted December 22, 2010 @smilinjack wrote:Problem is Rose, if your hard drive fails there's no means of reinstalling an operating system in a new one without a disk. No prob recovering system failures as I've done, & I've now got a second drive installed for backups, but if you have a hardware failure not so straightforward. I'll have a copy when you get one then Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
smilinjack 0 Posted December 22, 2010 Rose wrote:@smilinjack wrote:Problem is Rose, if your hard drive fails there's no means of reinstalling an operating system in a new one without a disk. No prob recovering system failures as I've done, & I've now got a second drive installed for backups, but if you have a hardware failure not so straightforward. I'll have a copy when you get one then Nae bother china. I'll keep you informed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trebor4460 0 Posted December 23, 2010 might be worth investing in a win7 copy, then make a shadow copy of your finished hard drive to an external drive, whenever you want to back up, Create a system recovery disc and use it to recover from situations like yours, it will restore your previous system image to your new hard drive. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
