Help With Laptop

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easier with discs really, available from your local supermarket, or pound shop

you are also going to need somewhere big enough to put your data, eg external usb hard disk or flash drive

sweetme

OK, I'll buy some discs, I have no flash drive but I think there is someone that can help me with that. Thanks again for everyones help.

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also better off with an external drive for future backups

waddler_8

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should have a factory restore partition, possibly accessed by pressing F8 at boot,

sweetme wrote: »

I have:

Please choose an option:

Start Microsoft Windows Repair Environment.
Reinstall windows.
Advanced Options
Exit and Restart Computer

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/57812119#Comment_57812119

http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/advent/laptop/roma.htm :Hard Drive Recovery

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waddler_8 wrote: »

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/57812119#Comment_57812119

http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/advent/laptop/roma.htm :Hard Drive Recovery

I know, spotted it after posting;)

zagubov

sweetme wrote: »

No I don't have back ups, yes I know that's daft

It's an advent Roma 2001 and it was Windows 7.

Thanks for your help so far.

Horse, Stable door- I know I know.
For future use, try dropbox (2Gb free online storage, more if you recommend others). It's a piece of cake to use.
Adrive is slightly less intuitive but you get 50Gb free.

Or get a USB stick from Amazon or 7dayshop. Can get 64Gb for £25 and so on. Hard drives for 1Tb about £60ish. Hope you get your photos and music back.:beer:

Oh yeah, you need at least both a flash drive and online storage, as either could fail (but both afre unlikely to at the same time).