Re: OT: Hard disk mirror with Paragon on USB stick?

Hi Joerg,

"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A lot of disks came with it but not that one.

If there wasn't a recovery CD, there's a good chance that either...

1) There's a recovery partition, and pressing some magical key combination
like Ctrl+F11 at boot (this is what older Dells used) activates it.
....or...
2) There might be an option somewhere buried in the Start Menu that allows you
to manually create a restore CD. I've used Sony laptops that were this way...
either create your own restore CDs, or if you had to do a complete re-install,
you called up Sony and forked over something like $30 for their copies. :-(

Afraid it's too late. The laptop did not get off the ground this morning.
The equivalent of finding a huge puddle of transmission fluid under your car
:-(

Ah, well, then the above it moot at this point. Hopefully you were able to
backup her data files prior to the final death spiral?

I doubt she'll be unhappy with a new laptop for Xmas here... :-)

---Joel


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