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cheese_dave said:Not content with keeping from me a potential antique straight razor, my dad has added insult to injury by asking me to have a look at his somewhat cake-holed PC. I think a hardware error has occurred on it, possibly memory. I've done my usual recovery options (low level HDD scan, replacing system files from those in the windows\repair directory, etc... I'm no n00b at this), but no joy. At the moment I'm trying to do a Windows XP repair from the Windows CD. I've tried two different LEGAL copies of XP, and three different CD drives, and I'm still getting "setup cannot copy the file... blah", where "blah" is a different file every time. I've scoured the interweb for days and found nothing. I'd do a reformat and reinstall (I've managed to back all his data off to an external drive), but I have no confidence that that would work if I'm getting those sort of copy errors.
This is all a bit low level PC support I know, but everyone's been such a help with the shaving side of things that I thought I'd throw this one out to see if anyone's seen such a thing before.
cheese_dave said:Just running MEMTEST-86 (dunno why I didn't think to do this before - maybe I am a n00b after all), and the screen's all red and we're up to 430,000 errors and counting. Think I might just be paying a visit to Mr. Crucial...
cheese_dave said:This forum rocks bells, from food to computers to shaving and beyond.
Millay said:... time to back up the files and reformat im afraid.
cheese_dave said:There is an option to activate by telephone but... but that would mean talking to a real person... I mean, where's the fun in that?
Stitch306 said:cheese_dave said:There is an option to activate by telephone but... but that would mean talking to a real person... I mean, where's the fun in that?
I've done this in the past, don't worry it's all pre-recorded automated menu bollocks, not a real person in sight
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