Recent content by nelly

I will give it a try, thanks for the help everyone :)

SSD? Sorry, like I said, I'm useless with computers. I've just been searching through the files on the harddrive and I've had to go through everything individually, but I've managed to retrieve a few of the more important things I was looking for, so I'm relieved about that at least. Just a...

Will that work if I can't tell what the individual files are though? For example, instead of seeing 'Essay draft,' 'Dissertation' etc in the folders, they are all just listed as 'backup files'. As far as I can tell that is about Windows 7 too, but I'll try and follow it best I can and see if I...

Unfortunately it seems that that is just for Windows 7, on 8 I'm not getting the 'backup and restore' option that it's saying I should be.

I think it was literally just called 'backup and restore centre' which I presume was just a microsoft program.

I'm clueless when it comes to computers so I'll apologise in advance if this doesn't make a lot of sense, but I'd really appreciate some help. My old Sony Vaio broke the other day, so I've just got a new laptop. The Vaio was Vista, but now I'm on Windows 8. I'd been backing up my Vaio to an...