How can I backup a computer that is starting to crash and has limited services?
Posted on September 29th, 2009 by admin
I’m trying to back up a Vista computer. However, it’s starting to crash and numerous services cannot be accessed. Because Task Scheduler can’t start, the backup and restore program won’t let me backup. Is there another program (not downloaded from internet) that can do the same or is there a way I can manually back it up? And is there anything I can avoid backing up to prevent the crashing again?
Without seeing what happens when you try different things it’s going to be hard to be precise. If your computer is a desktop pc then you can try putting another harddrive with vista installed on it into your computer and booting from that partition. If you can do that and vista recognizes the breaking Harddrive, copy everything off that harddrive onto the new one.
Otherwise you just need to buy an external, plug it in and copy all of the files you want to keep off. If you have a spare internal HDD that you can use that would work as well.
If windows doesn’t let you use usb devices, won’t recognize the new harddrive you put in (or you don’t have one) then you could try networking your pc to someone else’s and then transferring files over that way.
After you have your data off the pc, then you just need to format it. If this doesn’t solve the problem its most likely a hardware problem and i can’t even begin to guess what would be causing that without having more detail.
Hope this was helpful 
September 29th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
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September 29th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Without seeing what happens when you try different things it’s going to be hard to be precise. If your computer is a desktop pc then you can try putting another harddrive with vista installed on it into your computer and booting from that partition. If you can do that and vista recognizes the breaking Harddrive, copy everything off that harddrive onto the new one.
Otherwise you just need to buy an external, plug it in and copy all of the files you want to keep off. If you have a spare internal HDD that you can use that would work as well.
If windows doesn’t let you use usb devices, won’t recognize the new harddrive you put in (or you don’t have one) then you could try networking your pc to someone else’s and then transferring files over that way.
After you have your data off the pc, then you just need to format it. If this doesn’t solve the problem its most likely a hardware problem and i can’t even begin to guess what would be causing that without having more detail.
Hope this was helpful
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