Over the weekend I had an old Pentium 4 Dell machine to fix for a friend of my dad’s. I was told that the DVD drives stopped working and that the RAM was having problems. I check the RAM and it was fine and then I corrected the jumper configureation on the DVD drives and plugged them in. A test with a Linux live CD showed that the hardware was working fine. The computer failed to boot to Windows XP from the hard drive as it would flash up the Windows XP loading screen and then restarted. This was easily fixed by booting from an XP install disc and runnings some commands. Now all that is left to be done it to return the computer to it’s owner.
They must have quite a bit on there, according to sysinfo your hdd is 90% full. Make sure you back up all there favourites, and make a note of all the programs installed etc. so you can reinstall them. Really pisses people off even if you change the slightest thing (user name, background, etc.)
Hey Nick. It was a total of 52GB. I copied it from the hard drive’s root so it will have all there user settings, games, programs and even windows. I deleted the backup soon after I’d fixed it because there was only 2GB of free space left on the server out of 182GB. Their computer is still in the boot of our car as we have been unable to drop it off to them.