Imagine if you were starting your computer and suddenly your screen went blue and a line on the screen said “Bad_Pool_Header” error. What would you think? How would you even *know* what to think. Who would you call?
Well if you’re like most people, first, you would panic. Then, you would likely turn your computer off and turn it back on again, hoping it feels better the next time. When you are still facing the Blue Screen of Death (known in the tech world as BSOD), you would reach for the yellow pages and look up the word ‘computer’ and say a bit of a prayer that you could find someone friendly and helpful to talk to while randomly phoning companies under that heading.
Some people have technicians that they can trust, and they will drop the computer off for a few days. That’s not really a very good solution, because you’re going to lose your computer and you may not get your data back. Many people turn to the Geek Squad, and we at Selkie Software say DON’T DO IT!!! There are many reasons for that, but let’s just stick to the fact that they will cost you more money, take more time, and be less reliable than the do-it-yourself option.
The do-it-yourself option to pull all your important files off that computer by yourself is Selkie Software – either Selkie Rescue (www.SelkieRescue.com), which pulls the files from the dead computer to a working computer, or Selkie Freedom (www.SelkieFreedom.com), which pushes all the files onto a USB key (thumb drive). Both of these options are FAST!! and AFFORDABLE and more important, you won’t have a stranger looking over all your files and keeping copies of the photos he likes. Hey folks, I’m not making that up – check it out. After you’ve moved all your files, then you can reinstall Windows and put the files back. Voila! It might take a few hours to do it all yourself if you’re not very technical, but the nice thing is you can do it all yourself in only a few hours!
Meanwhile, if you’re a bit more technical, it will be even faster and you could make a nice business for yourself using Selkie Rescue to recover all the data while you fix computers. You could be like the LifeOnlineGeeks – the modern form of superhero – saving photos that people thought were lost to a Bad Pool Header!
