Electra Railway Graphics - computer failure

[Adam1701D]

Bad news: due to a PC hard disk failure, Electra will be out of action until further notice.

Everything important is backed up and I can still receive mails but cannot take any new orders for now.

I shall be trying to restore the pc this week but have no timescale

[Caz]

Not a nice thing to happen, the first time I had it happen I didn´t have a back up and learnt the hard way, now I have multiple back ups.   

Hope you´re back up and running soon Adam as my Devon Belle Observation car completion is relying on you.   

[NeMo]

Hoping things get sorted out soon.

Cheers, NeMo

[Portpatrick]

Not a nice thing to happen, the first time I had it happen I didn´t have a back up and learnt the hard way, now I have multiple back ups.   

Hope you´re back up and running soon Adam as my Devon Belle Observation car completion is relying on you.   

Oh dear.. As is completion of my Saltire 156.

[Adam1701D]

All my files are backed up in the cloud and i have an older pc that can be pressed into service. Won't be too long I hope

[robert shrives]

Adam,
sorry to read of failure, backing up and I cloud/365 all offer some security but not nice when it happens. I hope stress caused does not last too long and normality returns - at least the hound will get out more?
regards
Robert 

[keithfre]

My old XP computer was playing up, taking a long time to start up if at all. I bought a refurbished one to replace it and since then it's been working fine ;-}

Has happened to me in the past with a fridge - I only ordered the replacement and it started working again.

Evidently the mere thought of replacement puts the sh*t up these recalcitrants ;-}

[Adam1701D]

I am quietly optimistic that Windows 10 may have actually succeeded in repairing the HD. The machine actually started this morning after a number of attempts and completed a lengthy repair process.

Watch this space...

[Snowwolflair]

Download and run Malwarebytes if you don't already have it.  Sounds like something has nested in your boot sectors.  Windows 10 is good but it needs help to stop it coming back.

https://www.malwarebytes.org/

[Mustermark]

Good luck Adam. Miserable when this happens.

[Newportnobby]

Having suffered a catastrophic hard drive failure last year (it disintegrated ) you have my sympathy, Adam. Sadly, I lost quite a lot of data owing to me not backing things up often enough
Lesson learned.