My XP 2005 Media Center PC, 2 months old is toast according to HP!

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Hello Everyobe, I'm Bobbi, nice to finally have something to post here
thought it's not a fun topic!

I can't believe I have not seen anything about all of the people having
serious trouble with their XP machines on other news sites yet?! My computer
an HP Pavillion Slimline s7600n was crushed yesterday and I have now been up
for 36 hours + trying to get my data out. I encounted almost every problem
mentioend here by others, freezing, crashing, issues with connection but I
liked the computer and it really wasn't that bad until a few days ago. Within
a 1/5 day time frame my PC went from fully funtional to just about useless.
The officeal "crash" happened with I was running diagnostic tools to try to
figure out where the problem was. I have multile AV and Spyware programs and
I did not have a virus cause this. bugsdI am in the process of trying to get
my data out before we try a system recovery to see if any issues will remain.
The problem is that the crash wiped out ALL of my plug n play devices and
much more so I can't even get it to burn a CD or use a jumpdrive. I am
experiements with a couple of things tonight and will post results when I get
them but any suggesstiions you can make are great.

Thois is really terrible that so many are affected! The idiots I get on the
phone at HP
call center keep asking me to do the same stupid defrags and things over and
over which is stupid because half of my files appear to be gone already! I
was actailly running the "check for errors" scan (scandisk is what it used
to be called?) and when it cycled through its reboot that was it and things
were off to wonderful start in 07 for me! My 2 monthd old PC is junk on the
first day of the year. I think I may be doomed! I am going to try to
restore but I believe I would be happier and have more peice of mind with a
new unit.

What do all of you think about how many folks are dealing with this?? Is is
the updates, is it MS Defender in particlar, or is a major virus with a majpr
path of destruction?
 
I can't believe I have not seen anything about all of the people having
serious trouble with their XP machines on other news sites yet?! My
computer
an HP Pavillion Slimline s7600n was crushed yesterday and I have now been
up
for 36 hours + trying to get my data out.

Why is this such a big deal? Just restore from your backups.

You didn't do any backups? Then your data wasn't very important to you, was
it?
 
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MsBobbi


Noozer said:
Why is this such a big deal? Just restore from your backups.

You didn't do any backups? Then your data wasn't very important to you, was
it?
I have everything up until Nov 1st when I bought and xferred over to that
computer. I was of course unprepared and have not done the recovery disks or
a back up yet procrastinating from it being most demanding time of year for
my company and due to the holidays and the list that comes with that. I was
planning to sit down this week not that all is mellow again and deal with it.
I just really never thought s PC that was 2 months old that is heavily
scanned for virus, spyware etc would be done for!! I know it was naive and
just plain stupid.

The techs at HP seem to think there is only a slight chance that this one
can be saved and are asking that I attempt to do a recovery but that most
likely they will be shipping me a new PC. Yes, really really really stupid
to now back up, I know. (hanging head in shame)
 
What do all of you think about how many folks are dealing with this?? Is
is
the updates, is it MS Defender in particlar, or is a major virus with a
majpr
path of destruction?

Dealing with what? As far as I'm aware there has been no mass "crushing" of
computers. Just the normal, every day, flow of computer problems. Always,
always have a full and complete backup of important data. Better yet get a
drive imaging program such as Acronis True Image, regularly make images of
the drive, store these images on external media such as an external USB hard
drive. Establish redundancy with a second copy of an image on some other
backup media
 
Have you considered putting the HD into another computer as a Slave and then taking of the Data from it?
 
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