Is this the end, can I recover from this ?

[Gina M]

Yes, but the magistrate wasn’t so impressed…….


P.S. Absolutely love your sense of humour

It wasn't me your honour.(think you have heard that one before from me) I bent down to tie my shoe laces Joke from "Little Britain "

Gina

 

[Gina M]

Yes, but the magistrate wasn’t so impressed…….


P.S. Absolutely love your sense of humour

I am glad someone does. I think I scared the living daylights out of a Funster last night when I joked with him about fancying him, but hey ho, thems are the chances you take and the jokes you make. Sometimes they are costly. He won't ever speak to me again

Gina

 

[Minxy]

You told me that it was your favourite plumber……..

My hubby does my plumbing ....

















Yes I know that you'll think that sounds smutty you mucky duck!

 

[Minxy]

I am glad someone does. I think I scared the living daylights out of a Funster last night when I joked with him about fancying him, but hey ho, thems are the chances you take and the jokes you make. Sometimes they are costly. He won't ever speak to me again

Gina

I think you're right ... he hasn't posted since your 'kebab' request!

 

[us2anddollar]

Sincerely, a bad day. Best solution is to find a data recovery service near you and prepate for the worst. Sorry, not cheap and you may not get your data back.

If you are going to look at new machines, look at a Mac, after my last MS failure. I switched to Mac, bought my iMac 13 years ago, sold it last month for £400.

New Mac has a solid state drive, won’t fail like a hard disk drive, you can set up the Mac so that all you files are automatically saved to the iCloud, we have a family account £7 a month for 4 GB data.
Really sorry to hear your predicament, any help you need please give me a shout.
Macs are expensive for a reason, reassuringly!

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[EuroTrotters]

Well I got a nice surprise this morning. I was working away on my laptop when suddenly it started making some funny noises then the screen went blank then this message came up "The smart hard disk check has detected an imminent failure" thinking it was a scam like the one I had before, I Just switched it off then on again 30 minutes later but the same message was still there. Is this the end for my laptop? It is 5 years old. Please can anyone help ??

Gina

Had the same issue with Microsoft.

Had mainly apple sine 2009. Still have the same MacBook

 

[DuxDeluxe]

My hubby does my plumbing ....

Case rested

 

[DuxDeluxe]

Sincerely, a bad day. Best solution is to find a data recovery service near you and prepate for the worst. Sorry, not cheap and you may not get your data back.

If you are going to look at new machines, look at a Mac, after my last MS failure. I switched to Mac, bought my iMac 13 years ago, sold it last month for £400.

New Mac has a solid state drive, won’t fail like a hard disk drive, you can set up the Mac so that all you files are automatically saved to the iCloud, we have a family account £7 a month for 4 GB data.
Really sorry to hear your predicament, any help you need please give me a shout.
Macs are expensive for a reason, reassuringly!

We are also big fans of the Mac. Apart from the above, the graphics capabilities are outstanding

 

[Gina M]

I think you're right ... he hasn't posted since your 'kebab' request!

I know, I thought it was an absolute bargain

Gina

 

[Pablo19]

New Mac has a solid state drive, won’t fail like a hard disk drive, you can set up the Mac so that all you files are automatically saved to the iCloud, we have a family account £7 a month for 4 GB data.
Really sorry to hear your predicament, any help you need please give me a shout.
Macs are expensive for a reason, reassuringly!

Nothing in the above is exclusive to Apple. Most if not all new Windows machines will have SSDs and One drive for cloud storage. You will also have a myriad of other options unlike Macs which like the phones are horrendously restricted. Not bashing them by the way, they are great quality, just not for everyone and not just becasue of the extortionate prices.

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[Peter and Julie]

Nothing in the above is exclusive to Apple. Most if not all new Windows machines will have SSDs and One drive for cloud storage. You will also have a myriad of other options unlike Macs which like the phones are horrendously restricted. Not bashing them by the way, they are great quality, just not for everyone and not just becasue of the extortionate prices.

Never had a mac phone or pc. Sheeple followers I think. Each to their own.

 

[Just smiffy]

I am glad someone does. I think I scared the living daylights out of a Funster last night when I joked with him about fancying him, but hey ho, thems are the chances you take and the jokes you make. Sometimes they are costly. He won't ever speak to me again

Gina

He doesn’t scare that easily…

He does wander off for a few days sometimes…

 

[Just smiffy]

In case your missing him, me and tam in France a few years back….

 

[Peter and Julie]

I know, I thought it was an absolute bargain

Gina

What was the Kebab thing? Could just eat a whole one now!

 

[Gina M]

In case your missing him, me and tam in France a few years back….

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Nope not missing him at all nice to see you though

Gina

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[Just smiffy]

nice to see you though

Is that cause I’m tall dark and handsome…..

 

[Gromett]

New Mac has a solid state drive, won’t fail like a hard disk drive,

Nope, They fail in new and increasingly bizarre ways

 

[Gina M]

Is that cause I’m tall dark and handsome…..

Yeah, much better looking than that other fella

Gina

 

[Just smiffy]

Yeah, much better looking than that other fella

Gina

You are such a wonderful and very honest woman…..

 

[Nanniemate]

You are such a wonderful and very honest woman…..

Men are so gullible

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[us2anddollar]

We are also big fans of the Mac. Apart from the above, the graphics capabilities are outstanding

Indeed, the new MacBook is awesome, I’ve stress tested the M1 and man that thing is good. I had ableton live, photoshop running and doesn’t miss a beat.
Truly brilliant!

 

[Just smiffy]

Men are so gullible

But she speaks the truth…

 

[DuxDeluxe]

Indeed, the new MacBook is awesome, I’ve stress tested the M1 and man that thing is good. I had ableton live, photoshop running and doesn’t miss a beat.
Truly brilliant!

I would like one but simply cannot justify it. iPad, IPhone and a very large iMac at home sorts it all

 

[us2anddollar]

Nope, They fail in new and increasingly bizarre ways

Of course!

 

[us2anddollar]

Nothing in the above is exclusive to Apple. Most if not all new Windows machines will have SSDs and One drive for cloud storage. You will also have a myriad of other options unlike Macs which like the phones are horrendously restricted. Not bashing them by the way, they are great quality, just not for everyone and not just becasue of the extortionate prices.

Absolutely true about options, for value for money I paid £2k ish is for my iMac 13 years ago. Which if you net off what I got back for it is £123 a year for hassle free ownership. That I like! I have a works Dell laptop, £850 to buy, had it 8 months, crashes twice a week, constant excel issues, slow, graphics poor etc. I’ve never been restricted by using Apple products, can you share what you mean?

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[us2anddollar]

I would like one but simply cannot justify it. iPad, IPhone and a very large iMac at home sorts it all

If you find some dosh down the back of the couch, have a look here:

Macbook Pro

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Bought loads of photo kit from them over the past 15 years, got our MacBooks and iPads from them this year. Takes about 10 days from order to delivery.

 

[Gromett]

Absolutely true about options, for value for money I paid £2k ish is for my iMac 13 years ago. Which if you net off what I got back for it is £123 a year for hassle free ownership. That I like! I have a works Dell laptop, £850 to buy, had it 8 months, crashes twice a week, constant excel issues, slow, graphics poor etc. I’ve never been restricted by using Apple products, can you share what you mean?

Bought my current Dell laptop in 2015. Installed Linux on it and it is still going strong. No crashes or failures.

The commonality is not DELL, it is that we both avoid MS Windows.

 

[Gellyneck]

Bought my current Dell laptop in 2015. Installed Linux on it and it is still going strong. No crashes or failures.

The commonality is not DELL, it is that we both avoid MS Windows.

Got a 2009 Acer Travelmate running Mint (still original hdd!) with no issues.
Had to replace the removable battery though!

 

[Pablo19]

Absolutely true about options, for value for money I paid £2k ish is for my iMac 13 years ago. Which if you net off what I got back for it is £123 a year for hassle free ownership. That I like! I have a works Dell laptop, £850 to buy, had it 8 months, crashes twice a week, constant excel issues, slow, graphics poor etc. I’ve never been restricted by using Apple products, can you share what you mean?

An example of 1 is hardly conclusive, there are millions of Windows laptops out there that have no issues for many years! Comparing graphics and the speed of a £2k machine with a (presumably faulty) £850 is hardly a fair comparison. People always do the same with phones! If you spent £2k on a Windows (or another OS) machine of the same value you would get something that would blow the Mac away in every aspect and you would also be able to upgrade it far more easily without having to return it to Apple. Like I said previously, the Mac is a great product and I have nothing against it, I just think they are as popular as they are at the extortionate prices they charge purely down to brilliant marketing.