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Posted By Pat Hannaway
A word of warning to anyone using a computer running Windows XP. If you plan applying the latest Service Pack patch (SP2), make sure that you have all of you critical data such as accident records / investigations, Risk Assessments, Training courses and records, plant maintenance logs, etc backed up onto another computer. I applied the patch to my computer and it's now TOTALLY unusable. Company I.T. Technician says that he will have to re-format hard disk and reinstall original operating system and all existing data will be lost, since system is now inaccesible. Thankfully I kept duplicate copies offsite. I know of two other friends who had similar disasters with this patch. Be warned.
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Posted By jom
Thanks for the warning.
Actually, everyone should operate their PCs with the assumption that the hard drive will irretrievably fail - no ifs about it, it will fail, just a matter of time.
So - is your data backed up? I know mine wasn't last week when my HD crashed.
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Posted By Arran Linton - Smith
I also had problems with this service patch and I found it difficult to operate Microsoft outlook after it was installed.
I rectified the problem through following this path:
Start
all programs
accessories
system tool
system restore
and then resetting the system from the day before the this service patch was set.
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