[Closed] ******* ****** piece of **** ******* laptop.

Three hours and you didn't press the save button once?!

Surely 2 hours with the clocks going back?

Three hours and you didn't press the save button once?!

Unless he was saving to the cloud, or an external, I don't see how that would help if the HD is borked.

...if it it's just the case of Windows taking a shit over itself, then whip out the HD, pop it into a external caddy, and retrieve your docs using another computer.

[quote=Jamie ]Surely 2 hours with the clocks going back?
Three hours and you didn't press the save button once?!

Unless he was saving to the cloud, or an external, I don't see how that would help.

BSD doesn't mean your hard disc is fried Jamie, BSD is a get out/explanation of whats wrong when it crashes.
If you loose 3hrs of work then remember to save more often whatever your using.

That is *highly* unlikely that the hard disk has shat itself.
It'll be recoverable.

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Remove your USB smart card reader and reboot 🙂
(Assuming it's plugged in)

That is *highly* unlikely that the hard disk has shat itself.
It'll be recoverable.

BSD doesn't mean your hard disc is fried Jamie, BSD is a get out/explanation of whats wrong when it crashes.

I was assuming there were more issues than just blue screen pictured, as like you say the files would be recoverable, which means OP really didn't save once in 3hrs*. Which is akin to popping your johnson in a hornet's nest and expecting good things to happen.

*No autosave either?

I should have expected the "save more often" remark!

I went for a brew and came back to discover that.
😳
However it's back to life now and unusually (from my exp) Word actually managed to recover it from only ten mins ago. Yay!

Edit: Yes, autosave set-up but previous exp is that autosave rarely presents me with autosaved docs whensomething goes borked.

Anyhow, all well now

You're welcome.

However it's back to life now and unusually (from my exp) Word actually managed to recover it from only ten mins ago. Yay!

So you went from 0-DRAMA! in a very short space of time?

0-DRAMA-0 again 😀

Thanks all 😳

Chojin, how do you know I've a smartcard reader? (integral though).

what is the document?

Word. Thinking about it, it's excel I've had problems recovering previously.

I keep all my docs on a Dropbox folder, then if hard drive goes t@ts up, nothing lost 🙂

bearnecessities - Member

0-DRAMA-0 again

Thanks all

Chojin, how do you know I've a smartcard reader? (integral though).

Because that's the device/driver which caused your bluescreen.

szccid.sys

Mr bear

Your threads rarely dissapoint..

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Now go and rope your house down, thars a storm acomin 🙂

Ahhh, card reader has been temperamental lately. Ta.

FH. I'm not biting 🙂