| Thankfully no :-)
It seemed to be a problem with Vista (suprise suprise)
I removed the hard drive and connected it via USB to another computer, thus using it as an external HDD.
From there I had to gain access (nightmare) to the user files, copied the files I needed to another HDD. I then couldn't get Vista over the top of the old software so I formatted the HDD, re partitioned and am now awaiting a Toshiba recovery disk before I can start from scratch.
Now my GF backs up her data on the partitioned drive and not the Vista drive :-/ |