So I screwed up on an ahem and ended up with rar files. How do I join them all up again?
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Are you on Mac or Windows, Suela? Either way, you need the un-rar-ing software, but it's free and reliable and easy, so if you post your system details, I'm sure we can help with links.
So I'm learning how to use the stuff on my new computer, but I haven't found a way to read newsgroups. Is there a way to do that using Safari or the Mail program in OS X? If not, what program should I look for?
My PC is off in the other room dying. It shut itself off overnight, refused to start this morning (bitched about hal.dll or somesuch), and I finally got it started in safe mode and it's now running chkdsk and finding a bunch of stuff it can't repair.
Irritiatingly it's not one of those that came with an OS disk--it's the sort that expects you to reimage it.
I'm pretty sure I have XP disks around here somewhere--just not the ones that built that machine. Grr. It's unlikely I'll lose much data or evene any apps, but I will lose a buttload of time and perhaps environments I'll need to reconfigure.
Ouch, ita. Do you think it's a dying drive, or some other problem?
I'm guessing it's a dying drive. I'm not sure what the right answer is here. I guess I'd replace the failing drive and restore the backup. Uh, which I don't have.
This is so not going to be fun. I have that uncharacteristic My Documents setup that I'm not even sure where it is. Ugh. Tedious.
Yup, that's it. She's no longer recognised by the BIOS. Which is even more tedious than I'd thought--I figured the essential files would be corrupt, not that the whole thing would be kerfluey. It's a pretty new drive too, now that I think about it.
I should have kept records.