[Ham-Computers] to XP or not-XP: that is the question

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Hi Doug,

I wish you well -

If you find an answer to your problem, please post it to this list! Then it 
will be stored in the archieves and others in need can do a search in the 
archieves for help and find it. Thanks so much Doug.

One suggestion: Never assume what the computer is doing! Some of the time I 
am not sure it knows itself what is going on! Be certain that the computer 
is truly hung up next time. Sometimes turning it off is a better move then 
hitting the reset button.

You did not say which version of XP you were running. XP HE or XP Pro?

Personally I copy peculiar files to a drive other then the internal, or 
external, hard drives. Such as a 3.5 inch 1.44 or 172 drive, 100+ zip drive 
ora USB plug in memory drive etc. Better to error on the side of caution!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Hensley" <w5jv at hotmail.com>
To: <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 12:20 PM
Subject: [Ham-Computers] to XP or not-XP: that is the question


> Speaking of Windows, I have two questions:
> (1) Does anyone have a source for a least expensive home edition of 
> Windows 7?
> (2) I thought my XP unit had hung while moving a file.  I had used 
> Defragmentation toAnalyze a disk (check its fragmentation) and seeing one 
> file was spread, I did a cut andpaste of it to move it from C: drive 
> another drive called D:.  30 minutes later I glanced at the screen and saw 
> it was still  "copying".  Well, I thought this was a hung system soI hit 
> the reset button.
> Since then the machine won't boot up.  I made the standard recovery CD and 
> ran these:
> chkdsk /rchkdsk /p /r
> And they took a long time but did not report back anything other than they 
> had found aproblem.  Gave up, went to sleep.
> This AM I turned the box on and a blue CHKDSK screen appeared announcing 
> it was looking at a problem on drive D:.  After it finished, it said it 
> found a corrected a problemdrive index.  Then it sat there.  So I hit 
> reset again.  It is now back to the state of notbooting up.  The C: drive 
> is 7 years old and has had modest use, maybe 20% of those daysit got 
> turned on at most.  My thought is to pull it, put a new hard drive in and 
> biting thebullet, go to Windows 7.  The caveats are: some of my software 
> such as Office 2000 andthe like will no longer be useable (as told to me 
> by a W7 compatibility check) and I willhave to spend another week of my 
> last days trying to get the machine to behave normally.
> If anyone has "been there, done that" and can suggest or offer 
> suggestions, please getin touch.
> 73, Doug W5JV/NNN0BXX
>
>
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