Outlook kept saying it had to close, that was all. When it wouldn't boot, it was literally that, once bios had run I was just left with a black blank screen.
All my anti-virus and malware have been re-installed and updated to the latest.
Thinking back, my pc had been running slow for the past couple of weeks, especially when opening programs, it took forever to open them.
With a new win 7 64 bit re-installed on a clean hard drive it appears to be back to normal.
I'm amazed! You must be the one and only person I've ever heard of who has a SAFE backup policy!
Please Sir, Please Sir, Me too!
One external HD backed up to once a week and computer No.2 has a copy of all files, folders, pictures and videos on it which are updated to it every two weeks.
dave
You can always tell a Yorkshireman,
But you cannot tell him much.
I run a second HDD in my PC entirely for data however I've had THREE HDD failures in recent times.
Can you recommend a particular HDD manufacturer for reliability? When I bought HDDs 10 years ago they worked - non-stop, no failures, no problems. These days they come with a 2 year warranty and that's about as long as they actually work for! Built-in time-to-failure I reckon.
I'm now resorting to USB datakeys for critical backup - unless you have a better method?
I have a Medion Ext HD from Aldi about four or five years ago. 250GB capacity and I find it plenty large enough for incremental backups of all data.
It is run about twice a week for backups and other things and is still as sweet as a nut and quiet when running.
What I do, when I run it, is to leave it on all day until I shut down the PCs at night so it is not run up and shut down before it gets up to temperature.
dave
You can always tell a Yorkshireman,
But you cannot tell him much.
I dumped Outlook as it is more trouble than it is worth. I use my Yahoo mailbox(s) only now as you never lose anything that way and you can get in from anywhere in the world. It also can be made to look like an Outlook screen using the customising.
Outlook stores the mail boxes in one *.PST file (usually outlook.pst).
Typical directory: C:\WINDOWS\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
I dont use Outlook because I don't have Office, so cannot check this out but this may help you extract them once you find where they are on the backup: