UkLegacyT

can somebody help me please?

my computer is constantly making the noise like it does when it is loading, and it hasnt stopped doing it.
also, all my word documents including my final year degree project (that has to be in on friday) will not open properly. they open, but instead of letters, there are countless squares on the page instead.
also, i have about 70 digipics saved, again for my project, they wont open either, there is just a small red cross that appears at the top left of the screen?

i desperately need to sort this problem, any help really appreciated.

thanks, ian.

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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Before you do anything else, get a box of floppies & copy all the pics and docs onto them - better if you have a CD-R or can get one, or a Zip or something.

Copy them now JIC something goes **** up big time. Don't give them to someone else to test just yet in case of virus.

Have you de-installed any programs recently? Looks like your "associations" have become corrupted for some reason or prehaps the ends of filenames have changed/been changed.

UkLegacyT

hi mate, thanks for the quick reply

ill do that then, copy them onto disk even though they look dodgy.

just a note: i can open all other things such as cad, powerpoint etc and they are fine?

ive right-clicked on the docs to check the file type before, they all say microsoft word document as they should?

thanks again, ian.

UkLegacyT

also, everything is taking ages to load, and the computer box is going mad with the red loading light constantly on.....

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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You're getting a lot of disk access/read-write happening - thats the fluttering sound.

Many reasons for that but one could be a lack of space? Also lack of "System Resources" ie memory. Has your HDD been de-fragged recently, at all (Shut up Willie ). Do you have months of old internet access files stacked away?.

After the b/up delete temp files, delete temp int files/history & do a defrag. Maybe uninstall those unwanted games/shareware progs that are cluttering up your system first?

suba

possible virus attack? have you got anti-virus software installed? if not goto trend micro antivirus for an online scan of your HDD.

super_si

Email the docs to one of us!
i had some virus it hit all my *.exe programs!

Doc

Super-si

So you want someone with a possible virus to e-mail you files!
Rather you than me mate

UkLegacyT

thanks for the replies guys.

done the virus scan above mate, it says that the computer is now virus free. deleted all sh1te off the computer......including a scanned piccy that my sis done....13.5MB

will try the files again in a minute and let you know

UkLegacyT

cant open my graphs in excel either, says they are not of a compatible format?

suba

did you do the excel stuff in a different version of excel? email me a copy you cant open and i will try.

have you try openning it in another PC?

super_si

i dont care got 4pc ill bung it on the 95 machine!

It might be his program not a virus

UkLegacyT

ill send you both a file then. i think it may be my program, as the virus scan says there is no virus, and it checked all drives.
just says that the format is not compatible. they were all done in those programs on my home computer here, and havent touched anything, just wont open them, happened from this morning.

ian

p.s. cant try them on another pc till tomorrow
mail coming your way.....

super_si

yeah got 1! opened in word n said it werent english n opted for Uni code

Si

UkLegacyT

thanks for doing that mate

yes thats what its doing, wont open, then brings up some Uni Code stuff

thing is, they were all done on this computer.

anyone any ideas what causes this?

super_si

ive had this error before with trying to open index.dat file n **** like that

Encryption?

suba

the word file is corrupted. could happen when saving of the word file is not complete or the file is cross-linked.

UkLegacyT

suba, what could i have done to cause this.

i first saved these weeks/months ago, and have accessed them quite a few times to ammend bits etc, and have worked fine till this morning.

also, does this mean i have no way of getting these

p.s. remember that my jpeg piccies dont open either, or excel xls files?

cheers for the help guys

suba

could be bad sector on the HDD, so when you save the file, some of the file was saved on the bad bit of the HDD. so you get half and half of a file, and because of that, word or any other applications wont recognise the file.

do a throught "check disk" of your HDD which will also check for any bad sectors on your HDD.

super_si

i get it quite a bit to! i think its cos the files not being saved right

Si

UkLegacyT

thanks guys

its just done a scandisk on startup a minute ago as it flamin crashed so had to reset it.

tried the scandisk (thorough) before and it wouldnt do it, said it couldnt because something was trying to write to it, i had no other programs running either!!

im seriously pissed off with this thing now

thanks again for the help, looks like im knackered though...

UkLegacyT

scandisk has now been done, it hasnt found any errors.

so havent a clue

Steve_H

Strangely enough I spent four hours looking at a mates machine yesterday with exactly the same problem.

His machine was also failing to load certain programs on boot.

All his word and excel documents are corrupt (little squares etc..)

Only solution for the PC was to re-build with a fresh installation of Win98, however, I moved all the corrupted docs to a floppy and have just started to try and "fix" them at work.

It's not looking very promising at the moment but I'll let you know if they can be recovered at all....

Steve

UkLegacyT

thanks steve, that would be great

its more the piccies im bothered about, as i cant redo them
they are jpeg files and are just saved in my 'my documents' file as .jpg images. they just open with a small red cross at the top left of the screen.

all info appreciated
thanks.

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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Sounds a bit like trying to open them as a .jpg but they are not there

as in below...



??

Email me a pic & let's see if I can view it - james@excel.co.uk

UkLegacyT

yeah thats the one!

ill send you a piccy now....mail coming your way

Steve_H

UK Legacy....send me a picture aswell and I'll try and figure it out for you....

Steve

UkLegacyT

thanks steve.....incoming

sasman

Did you fix it just wondering I hate computers.

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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Ian

Have you got either a Mac or had you put your pics in an HTML page or something?