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Browsing through a mail order catalogue from Simply Computer, which is

delivered to my door on a regular basis, it never ceases to amaze me as to the

huge range of hardware available on the market. What do they do with all the

items that are unsold? As the editorial section of Computer Shopper Magazine

says “if you hear PC buyers complaining about choice, it’s usually because

there’s too much. The sheer number of products on offer can be bewildering”.

Computer Shopper Magazine went on to say, because you can buy your

favourite artist’s music from only one record label, you’re forced to pay

whatever they dictate 60 minutes is worth and let’s not forget that prices went up when the world

switched from vinyl to CD, despite the fact that CD’s are cheaper to manufacture and distribute”.

Maybe if the price of this vast wealth of material was reduced to a more realistic level, more

products would be purchased by consumers. Some of the best selling hardware can be seen on

pages 8 and 9 of this journal.

Do you find that follow up support for items of hardware leaves a lot to be desired? “After sales

support is considered to be the Cinderella of the consumer PC Business, sidelined by suppliers

focussed on building bigger, faster and evermore powerful computers” so says the PC Magazine

editorial and I definitely agree with this view. The manufacturers say that their hardware profit

margins are slim but surely the average home user doesn’t want all the sophistication that the

manufacturers are serving up. The home user and possibly the business sector desire a capable

computer that operates in a simple but efficient way without all the bells and whistles. A good

example of lavish products is a Midi Tower that I have recently purchased through mail order,

which contains a Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp with Voice Control. I don’t know how this

works because this extra in my case has failed to operate. On contacting the suppliers, the reply

to my need of a replacement was met with “send the whole case back” but what about the cost of

the transportation? The cost of sending the case in the first place cost £18 by courier and then

there is the cost of postage to return the case and another £18 to send a replacement case. This

doesn’t add up in my book as a paying customer. From a marketing point of view shouldn’t some

consideration have been given by the manufacturer, namely Q-Tec, to keep spare parts so that in

the event of a failure the item that is giving a problem could be replaced without the shipment of

the entire case?

Recommended website:- PC Advisor’s Free Helproom:- www.pcadvisor.co.uk/helproom

The Isle of Wight PC User Group welcomes

all owners and users of IBM Compatible

Personal Computers. It is a group which seeks

to exchange ideas and new information. Our

meetings are bi-monthly on Wednesdays of

each month at The Riverside Centre,

Newport, 7.30 - 9.30 pm.

The first Wednesday has usually a formal talk

whilst the third Wednesday is more informal,

geared to the new user and aims to help out

members with specific problems.

Membership is £12 per year.

Visitors are welcome.

This journal, “HOTKEY”, is printed every

month. If you would like to know more about

us, either come along to one of our meetings or

contact one of our Committee Members listed

on page 3.

Club’s Website - http://www.iwpcug.org/

EDITORIAL

The road to data recovery

Tools such as SystemWorks and SystemSuite

can help you work out where problems are

occurring on your PC, and they even provide

unerase tools that can help recover files that

have been deleted accidentally.

When recovering lost data, there are a

number of options open to most users. In the

first instance, a Windows crash may have

made your system unstable – what is less

important here than the issue of your data

going missing is the fact that your PC is

becoming unworkable.

Windows Me and XP have built-in System

Restore tools that you can access from the

Programs, Accessories, System Tools menu,

returning Windows to a previous, more stable

state.

For users of earlier versions of Windows,

GoBack from Roxio provides a similar

service. If you have lost important data, as

mentioned previously, utility suites from

McAfee, Ontrack and Symantec include tools

for unerasing data, while Ontrack also

provides a more robust data recovery

application, EasyRecovery Professional,

which performs similar diagnostics tests to

SystemSuite but also offers a host of tools for

retrieving data from your system.

Such tools are not always sufficient,

however. Installing them after you have

experienced data loss is likely to do more

harm than good. This is because when data is

deleted the operating system does not actually

remove it, it simply gets rid of the file headers

that point to where the data is on disk.

Installing more files will subsequently

overwrite that data, making it unrecoverable.

Such tools are also less useful when a disk

has suffered some form of physical damage.

But even if you do not have data recovery

software installed or your drive is harmed in

some way, you may still be able to retrieve

information via a data recovery service, such

as Vogon:-

(www.vogon-data-recovery.co.uk),

MJM Data Recovery:-

(datarecovery.mjm.co.uk) or

Ontrack:- (www.ontrack.co.uk).

Ontrack, which first supplied its Disk

Manager in 1985 and began data recovery

services in 1987, is the best known of these

companies. It offers data recovery both in the

lab and remotely over the net.

In either case the first service provided is an

estimate of the projected time and cost of

retrieval. “The time it takes to get data back is

critical,” points out Ontrack Europe’s Todd

Johnson. “With remote data recovery we can

get the customer up and running in a couple of

hours.”

When using a firm such as Ontrack for data

recovery, the disk is first diagnosed, either

remotely by sending it to the company, or by a

visit to your home or office from a technician.

Some companies offer free diagnosis, but this

will probably be recouped at a later date. In

any event, be prepared to pay. As Ontrack’s

Johnson remarks, “You only have one chance

to get back your data.”

Prevention is better than cure

. “There are plenty of people who wish to

attack you and run malicious code on your

PC. To prevent a computer being

compromised, we always advise people to

implement safe computing, which means both

using the right software and maintaining a

certain way of thinking,” says Symantec’s

André Post.

For Post, antivirus software is “super-

mandatory” on any system. “It’s the core of

safe computing practices,” he says. “Why do I

think that? We see many viruses that are so

poorly written that, in many cases, they do not

simply infect files but destroy the host. If that

happens, the chances are that you won’t be

able to recover all your data if you try to clean

a virus after the event.”

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