IT guru's please look in

[philly169]

Aslong as you don't format the drive you should be ok with just moving it into a drive caddy and into a new machine or friends machine to copy important files off. Sounds like the issue is with startup/system files so won't affect personal directories.

In my experience I've always just installed a new hard drive and put the old one to one side, once new drive is up and running, copy files from old disk.

 

[CMAC]

Aslong as you don't format the drive you should be ok with just moving it into a drive caddy and into a new machine or friends machine to copy important files off. Sounds like the issue is with startup/system files so won't affect personal directories.

In my experience I've always just installed a new hard drive and put the old one to one side, once new drive is up and running, copy files from old disk.

If its a virus or malware which I think it is, I shouldn't have to go to all that messing about with hardware to rectify a software issue. These hackers seem to be better at breaking things than IT professionals at fixing them.......or securing them in the first place.

 

[chris661]

If its a virus or malware which I think it is, I shouldn't have to go to all that messing about with hardware to rectify a software issue. These hackers seem to be better at breaking things than IT professionals at fixing them.......or securing them in the first place.

The problem with securing it is that you write a piece of code for a specific task. I could write something and stick it onto a USB stick that everytime you log onto your PC it switches off or wipes your hard drive. Securing against that is a nightmare. The worst side of security is the users themselves. I know of an instance where loaded USB sticks were thrown around in a car park of a business folk found them and stuck them into there computers to see what was on them it is that easy sometimes.

 

[CMAC]

I wonder how Apple seem to do it? Apart from the iPad anyone I know who has a mac swears by its reliability and defences

 

[chris661]

I wonder how Apple seem to do it? Apart from the iPad anyone I know who has a mac swears by its reliability and defences

Wrong. There are enough security problems with macs there only saving grace is not many folk use them in comparison to windows machines I think about 4%. So when you are dreaming up a virus or whatever you do it for the most common and therefore the OS most likely to yield results.

 

[CMAC]

Wrong. There are enough security problems with macs there only saving grace is not many folk use them in comparison to windows machines I think about 4%. So when you are dreaming up a virus or whatever you do it for the most common and therefore the OS most likely to yield results.

PC with IT professionals now, first signs are they can't load up windows either even with the disc. Damn those pesky kids!

 

[CMAC]

a swift 4 days later its been rebuilt, then 2 days of tweaking the issues that that caused!!!!


bloody Microsoft..........Apple def have less issues as a percentile

 

[guest100718]

a swift 4 days later its been rebuilt, then 2 days of tweaking the issues that that caused!!!!


bloody Microsoft..........Apple def have less issues as a percentile

Macs are rarely targets for malware etc due to no one much using them.

 

[CMAC]

Macs are rarely targets for malware etc due to no one much using them.

yes but their OS is more stable as well.

My issue turns out was 1 line of root code got corrupted - explorer.exe - and couldnt be fixed. unbelievable!

 

[Andy808]

I have done full reistalls on my PC and it saves all your old data to a folder called windowsold.old.
It has everything from the last install of windows saved on it including your data. I have even done a second reinstall without finishing taking the data I needed from windowsold.000 so it made a new folder called windowsold.old.000.
This is on a Vista OS so I can't see that they would have scrapped that function for win7.

Also it doesn't matter what type of drive you have you still need to do defrags on them. When you install or save files it will split them up around the drive to fit into gaps in the file system the defrag collects all the pieces and puts them all together so they can be found quicker when retrieved. SSD only means you don't have anything spinning but sectors are still set the same.

 

[CMAC]

I have done full reistalls on my PC and it saves all your old data to a folder called windowsold.old.
It has everything from the last install of windows saved on it including your data. I have even done a second reinstall without finishing taking the data I needed from windowsold.000 so it made a new folder called windowsold.old.000.
This is on a Vista OS so I can't see that they would have scrapped that function for win7.

Also it doesn't matter what type of drive you have you still need to do defrags on them. When you install or save files it will split them up around the drive to fit into gaps in the file system the defrag collects all the pieces and puts them all together so they can be found quicker when retrieved. SSD only means you don't have anything spinning but sectors are still set the same.

as an SSD isnt read sequentially it doesnt matter that the file is all over the drive, the performance will remain the same. Its not recommended to defrag an SSD as it will reduce the lifespan and get no performance increase to boot.

 

[Andy808]

Fair enough

 

[chris661]

Apple def have less issues as a percentile

Because as a percentile there are less of them

Don't be fooled into thinking Macs are safe. They are as susceptible as any OS.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

I cant remember any issues i have had with any of my apple devices - in fact i cant remember at work or friends or hearing of any major issues with the OS ?

Big percentage in the US use them and dont seem to hear of any issues ?

 

[CMAC]

Because as a percentile there are less of them

That's correct, that's what my quote meant:thup:, not sure why you are confused!

 

[chris661]

I cant remember any issues i have had with any of my apple devices - in fact i cant remember at work or friends or hearing of any major issues with the OS ?

Big percentage in the US use them and dont seem to hear of any issues ?

Behold the future

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/new-mac-malware-epidemic-exploits-weaknesses-in-apple-ecosystem/4726

http://www.zdnet.com/apple-issues-m...-including-lion-and-mountain-lion-7000026782/

The first one was two years ago and there will have been more since. The last one shows the amount of vulnerabilities are increasing as macs become more popular.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Behold the future

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/new-mac-malware-epidemic-exploits-weaknesses-in-apple-ecosystem/4726

http://www.zdnet.com/apple-issues-m...-including-lion-and-mountain-lion-7000026782/

The first one was two years ago and there will have been more since. The last one shows the amount of vulnerabilities are increasing as macs become more popular.

Suppose a drop in the ocean compared to the near daily infections on a windows machine - thankfully I have had no problems with mine , where multiple issues with my windows machines

Very confident in Apples ability to ensure there will be no major issues where as zero confidence with Microsoft

 

[chris661]

Suppose a drop in the ocean compared to the near daily infections on a windows machine - thankfully I have had no problems with mine , where multiple issues with my windows machines

Very confident in Apples ability to ensure there will be no major issues where as zero confidence with Microsoft

as a percentage can you tell me Mac users compared to windows users. I would call the recent SSL problems with macs a fairly large issue but hey as long as you look cool in Starbucks no harm eh?

And before you get on your high horse the last bit wasn't aimed at you specifically but generally. There are backdoors and vulnerabilities in EVERY os just read about a Linux one where if you held down a key when putting in a password for root access it was accepted regardless.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

as a percentage can you tell me Mac users compared to windows users. I would call the recent SSL problems with macs a fairly large issue but hey as long as you look cool in Starbucks no harm eh?

And before you get on your high horse the last bit wasn't aimed at you specifically but generally. There are backdoors and vulnerabilities in EVERY os just read about a Linux one where if you held down a key when putting in a password for root access it was accepted regardless.

Only going by my own personal experience and witnessed at work :thup:

No horse around here but certainly consider myself told

Have a nice day :thup:

 

[CMAC]

Oh dear, were you turned down by Apple or something!

Of course everything is vulnerable to a degree, even a Rolls Royce will "fail to proceed"