Colin Barnhorst

It was not Christmas, it was Halloween.

"Darren" <Darren@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C795C8B1-CC9B-4DEA-8310-5C83D79C50D4@microsoft.com...
> Thank you very much for the advice. I know I am a bonehead for doing the
> upgrade and not backing up first, but when I get a new OS, I'm like a kid
> who
> can't wait for Christmas. All logic and patience goes out the window.
>
> I think I can figure out the network transfer, or if not I will try the
> flash-drive USB option.
>
> Again, thanks.
>
> "Travis King" wrote:
>
>> The only thing I can say you can do now is if you're lucky enough to have
>> another computer(s) at your house and they're all hooked up to a router,
>> you
>> can network them (if your network driver is working as you did not
>> specify
>> which drivers aren't working) and use the other computer(s) as your
>> backup
>> source.
>> Additionally, if you have a spare connection available in your computer,
>> you
>> can plug in a hard drive to backup your files. Also, you could plug in
>> an
>> external USB (or the like) hard drive and use it as your backup source.
>> If you cannot do any of the above, as a last resort, try:
>> (everybody will think this is really a crazy idea, but I actually had to
>> do
>> this to one person's computer once in an emergency situation; it's not
>> going
>> to work for everybody as you'll see below...)
>> Download Knoppix off of the Internet, which can be run off of the CD ROM
>> and
>> not the hard drive. The only thing is, if your burner is the only drive
>> you
>> have, you will be out of luck. Another problem is that if you don't have
>> another computer, you'll have to use someone else's computer since your
>> burner is not working. You'll also want a high-speed Internet
>> connection.
>> If you have to drives, however, you're possibly in luck. Knoppix has a
>> built-in CD burning tool, and you can use that to hopefully burn your
>> CD's
>> and DVD's. I don't know how well it handles DVD's, but I know it can
>> handle
>> CD's fine and have burned data CD's with it before. Now if the Knoppix
>> doesn't pick up your hardware, which I've seen it do on occasion, I don't
>> know what else I can say except for you to hope that someone else comes
>> along to assist you.
>> "Darren" <Darren@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F3841F2B-DFB1-4579-A78B-3320C34C35A6@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi. I am very frustrated and disappointed. Not only can't I get my
>> > DVD
>> > player and burner to work (can't install drivers) but the whole system
>> > is
>> > slow and choppy. Now I have no way of backing up my many gigs of media
>> > and I
>> > can't uninstall Vista! Any ideas anybody?
>>