Had a bit of a problem last night my hard drive packed up and lost all my saved emails which had all my including my passwords and licence numbers for software. I could have picked up the PC and thrown it through the window (if I had the strength). So after walking the dogs this morning it was down to replacing the hard drive (I had a spare) and rebuilding Windows 7. I didn't realise how many updates there were seems nearly as many as XP. So am back on line, back crunching but until I contact my Internet provider no email, so far it has taken me until now to finishing all the updates only interupted with dogs evening walk. Phew
Sorry to hear that, it is a very painful process indeed to get back on track.
I see that you had a spare drive but not sure why you did not use it to create a backup image on, that way you would not have to go through the hassle. Am I missing something?
No I am missing something, I have a ghost coppy on an external drive, but I couldent get it to trsansfer, pilot error I think. eventualy I reasoned that it would be easier and quicker to carry out a full format and start from scratch. Easier on the nerves, just.
Is the old driver proper dead ? As in does it spin up at least / YOu could try sticking it in a caddy or as a second drive and use something like Recuva to see if you could recover anything. Worth giving it a go.