HP desktop + WinXP

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Hello!

A friend of mine has a small business. They bought 12 new HP desktops with
WindowsXP about 6 months ago.

Now the hard disks are started to brake down!!! And all the mail in a disk,
because they haven't needed mailserver - and there is no one, whose know,
how to use one.

It's a normal TCP/IP network, fast hub, USP, large (terabyte) USB-hard disk
for every ones use. Linux is there server.
 
A friend of mine has a small business. They bought 12 new HP desktops with
WindowsXP about 6 months ago.

Now the hard disks are started to brake down!!!
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Send all the 12 new HP PCs back to HP.
They should all be under warrently.
And all the mail in a disk,
because they haven't needed mailserver - and there is no one, whose know,
how to use one.
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Sorry, can't catch what is the problem with "all the mail in a disk" ?

And there must be a mail server before anyone can recieve/send mails.
Do you mean that people have tons of emails waiting for a mail server
to be sent out ? The mail server should be on the ISP. If you want to
set
up a mail server yourself, (and hence save some money for using mail
accounts from your ISP), you need to hire someone to setup your own
mail server. An alternative is ask the 12 people to use gmail,
hotmail,
whatever, that are free.
 
It seems that they are using POP3 mail account in their Outlook Express.
When the disk went down, you can backup mails and address books from their
Outlook Express file storage folders to a known good disk with the steps on
the following page.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/270670

Windows Mail is quite the same but you can see the instructions for backing
up Windows Mail stuff on the following page.
http://social.answers.microsoft.com...s/thread/7ce6e819-c6fa-4c20-940b-43a307cac885

The hard disk should be under warranty. Your friend can return it to the
system builder or hard disk manufacture for a new one. But sometimes there
might be some problem with the cache corruption on the hardware which can be
fixed by resetting something there. So it's better to call them for a
diagnose first.
 
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