hi

a family friend asked me to get them a new pc and set it up etc etc so I did and they had copied all their old docs to a floppy disk, trouble is I didn't get them a floppy for the new PC :p

So i've got a floopy sitting here with data that was saved to it under Win ME, when I read it under XP it says the disk is unformatted - can this be true?

A disk written to in ME can't be read in XP?

Or have I farked something up?

sounds like the magetic layer of the flopy has been fooked by em emission's :(

Tryed another flopy drive?

also ME / XP format the disk as fat16 so yer not a compatibilty problem.

last edited by 0z at 23:28:59 20/Aug/05

ffs

this f***ing personal pc guru s*** is quiet annoying, spent my whole today doing it and by the looks of things I'll be doing more tomorrow

fkn c***s with their p2-233 and 64mb ram that hasn't been formatted in 5 years...

now the f***ing documents are rooted, GG


/rant

FAT, and ntfs...


read it on a win98/me machine.

I don't have a f***ing 98 or ME machine...

Thats what USB drives were invited for!

EXACTLY!

FAT, and ntfs...


read it on a win98/me machine.

Please tell me your joking and your not that dumb :/


Heardy, does every disk do it or just a couple? Have you tried a second floppy drive, maybe you have on in a laptop or something? If not, grab a USB floppy drive and try that, doesnt work take it back and get a refund :P

Failing that, It sounds like they wrote BACKUP on the disk and put it on the fridge with magnet.

Please tell me your joking and your not that dumb :/

Beaten to the punch.

Heardy: Take their old floppy drive out and put it in the new PC

oh get over yourselves you nerds. go get boned by a horse already.

yeh i was thinking that hashy, but its f***ing around, i'll just get the docs off hte old machine via usb key

pisses me off, coz they are near my parents = 30mins away

ohh well that's tomorrows drama, sleep now

Dont do computer work for family friends...my father started handing my phone number out to his friends when ever they had pc issues.God it got frustrating with people i didnt even know calling me up asking if i could fix there machines.Finally put my foot down,now ill only look after family machines...unfortunatly my whole family are computer noobs ;(

^why the f*** weren't you charging them money?

I should have,but in the end i didnt want the responsibility of them constantly comming back to me with problems.Once you take money for fixing it,it sorta becomes your problem.

Yay repeat business with relatively newb problems for cash every time? ... sounds like a great business to me!

last edited by Xy at 05:14:56 21/Aug/05

cash every time?

No cash the first time, then its "You know how you fixed my mouse, well my hard drive just caught fire and its your fault so i shouldnt have to pay any more money. Fix it."

No cash the first time, then its "You know how you fixed my mouse, well my hard drive just caught fire and its your fault so i shouldnt have to pay any more money. Fix it."

If a computer-illiterate mechanic or handyman wants help with his PC, help him immediately but don't accept cash! Later, ask him for favours with your car. That way, you both exchange services but the fact that he has to return favours stops him for asking for your help too often.

Yea good point there parabol,but the hassle for me too is my father lives out at Petrie and im at Mt Gravatt....its a bitch of a drive there and back to have to go and fix peoples computers.These days im happy just working on my own and my families when i have too.

I know a guy who use to fix people's PCs for money in his spare time. The local Games R Us give him there details whenever they came in complaining about their computers. Most people just want someone that can speak to them in a language they can understand, doesn't make them feel stupid when they don't know basic computer things, and can get the damn thing working again and help them keep it working.

There's decent money in it if you don't have a real job. This is nearly 10 years ago now, and the charge-out rate was $75 for the first hour and $50 an hour after that, with GRU taking $25 for the first hour nothing after that. So $50 an hour to him.

With just a simple referrer like that he was easily doing two house-calls an evening, most people he'd never hear from again, but he'd hear from their friends. "Oh we had this nice guy drop around and fix our PC, here's his number".

It was pre-GST so i don't know how all that would work now, he'd just give them a cash receipt, and add all the income (and expenses) to his yearly tax.

If you speak good english, don't mumble, are presentable then there's plenty of people prepared to pay good money to just get their pc working again, and aren't happy with the service from their local PC store, staffed by people they don't understand, who overcharge, talk to them like they are morons and rip them off.