Recent content by Brambley

If you are young you won't remember that up to about 15 years ago hard drives crashed with distressing frequency. I have a fair sized box full of drives going back as far as a $3000 (in 1985 dollars) 10 Megabyte Maxtor (about the size weight and shape of a common red brick). (Yes, that's MB not...

Can you put that drive in another computer or install it in an external exclosure to look at? My only destop I'm afraid. Are you using the same user name and password now as before? I'm not sure. I didn't use a password to access Vista. I may have a new name but that wouldn't explain the...

OK, Recuva found a whole swack of files. All the file names are gone so I won't know untill I restore and go through them one at a time what I have lost. THe next question is, is this the best way? If I restore them it will overwrite the clusters, yes? Is there a way to recover the files to a...

Thank you Busydog. While I'm waiting for Recuva to scan my disk: Yes, one drive with two partitions. Compatability check was A-OK The first attempt to upgrade to 7 destroyed my Vista. At the end I was left with a very pretty windows 7 background and a command line box. No menus, no net...

Not cool at all. First let me say I have been a Microsoft fan, fanatic and apologist since the mid 80s. A professional computer user. But I think Ive finally reached the end; I'm going to start saving money for a Mac. My brother had been using PCs even longer; now he is a Mac evangelist. Since...