Tell us something really 23 about your life (vol trivial)
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Battyfine said:
All sounds a bit err, odd to me. But who am I to judge?
ETA If real, I'm game.
Odd, you say. You don't text or phone people when you're out and about?ETA If real, I'm game.
Course you do.
Meet up in a pub next week and contact mates on here who can't make it and have either gathered in other pubs in other parts of the world or, has happened on Stag Thursday, are holed up I far flung B&Bs and Travelodges. Some are even at home.
Easy.
I have you down for the Real Meet, The Rubbing Room, Epsom.
DickyC said:
Odd, you say. You don't text or phone people when you're out and about?
Course you do.
Meet up in a pub next week and contact mates on here who can't make it and have either gathered in other pubs in other parts of the world or, has happened on Stag Thursday, are holed up I far flung B&Bs and Travelodges. Some are even at home.
Easy.
I have you down for the Real Meet, The Rubbing Room, Epsom.
Of course. I just don't generally tend to do it with people I don't know. Course you do.
Meet up in a pub next week and contact mates on here who can't make it and have either gathered in other pubs in other parts of the world or, has happened on Stag Thursday, are holed up I far flung B&Bs and Travelodges. Some are even at home.
Easy.
I have you down for the Real Meet, The Rubbing Room, Epsom.
I'm in. Bring it.
Chunkymonkey71 said:
Stag Thursday is dead!
Long live stag Wednesdays!
Long live stag Wednesdays!
Stag Wednesdays (well wine Wednesdays in my case). Will have to miss next week because overseas on hols, unless I "borrow" Mrs Champers' ipad 
I leave mine at home when away to avoid the temptation of reading work emails; when I'm away, I'm away; deal with it 
As someone with a load of mercury amalgam in my mouth, despite living in a city with fluoridated water in my childhood (still do) I am very pleased so far
Yhm btw
I have just watched a Tales of the Unexpected starring Anthony Valentine; does anyone remember Raffles? Raffles was also a brand of cigarettes iirc.
Yhm btw
I have just watched a Tales of the Unexpected starring Anthony Valentine; does anyone remember Raffles? Raffles was also a brand of cigarettes iirc.
DickyC said:
Thanks. The last laptop was starting to play up so I replaced it. Bags of time to retrieve stuff I hadn't backed up before it failed completely... except when it played up more than usual and I applied percussive encouragement. Percussive encouragement immediately above the hard drive, it turned out. It then wouldn't boot up. At the weekend, on a whim, I swapped the identical hard drive from the even older laptop and it had a go at starting, prevented only by an incorrect version of Windows.
As I think I have narrowed the fault down to a squidged hard drive, can I do anything myself to relieve the squidge by maybe buying a replacement hard drive and cannibalising it? Or something similar.
It's not the end of the world if it fails totally.
When you hit it, it may have become dislodged from the power supply or data connection. Try putting the drive back in and starting the laptop again.As I think I have narrowed the fault down to a squidged hard drive, can I do anything myself to relieve the squidge by maybe buying a replacement hard drive and cannibalising it? Or something similar.
It's not the end of the world if it fails totally.
I do have a cradle which allows you to connect a laptop hard disk as a slave drive, like attaching a USB flash drive. If you weren't so far a way I could have tried it for you.
If you have the original Windows installation CD, you could try and recover the Windows boot sector, it could be as you hit it, the sector which contain the boot files has been corrupted, thus making the boot process impossible.
Cannibalising probably wouldn't work because you're more likely to damage one of the platters which contain the data.
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