smashingjj
05-21-2004, 02:06 PM
My hard disk crashed, again. The last one crashed 3 months ago, everything on it was lost. Because I'm not that much of a computer geek myself, I brought it to the store where they built a 'new', 20 gig one in it. I took it home again, and slowly went installing more and more on my PC. After a week or so internet access was mine, and I started downloading everything. After 2 months later, which was about a week ago, half of the hd was filled with, for the biggest part, music. I had 1300 mp3's. Last monday, I went away for a day and left my computer on, so soulseek could keep running. I came back at night, when I turned the monitor on, and there was the infamous 'blue screen of death' with an error message and it didn't boot ever since.
I took it to the store again, with the receipt that i kept, from when they built in the hd that had now crashed. They told me the hd had a one-year guarantee, so I at least didn't have to pay. But when I looked on the receipt, it said it was a 40g hd instead of a 20g on that was built in. I was already afraid this was going to cause problems, but he said they would take a look at it. And so they did.
Later that day, a store employee called me. That was when he told me the crash was bad, as in they couldn't save any of the data on the hd. Secondly, he told me that the crashed hd didn't match with the one on the receipt. Not only it was a 20g one instead of a 40g one, but the hd in my computer had a wrong date to it, he told me. On the hd it said 'march 2003' or so. They couldn't have built it in, he told me. I said that that was very strange, since I let them build in a new one in feb. 2004. Of course I couldn't prove anything, but thank god they wanted to build in a new one for free anyway.
So at least that's not the problem. But I think they're ripping me off. 2 months ago they built in a hd that was a year old and suddenly crashed after only 2 months of use. How can I tell they won't do the same again this time? But there's no way to prove it.
I do have to pay for installing the drivers for the video- and soundcards and so on. I'll try to install windows myself, everyone says that shouldn't be too hard, so I can at least save 60 euros for that. But when everything is finished, I'll probably have to wait ages for my landlord to get his friend to install my internet again, since we have wireless internet and my landlord has the base station.
At least Netphoria is going to help me.:erm
I took it to the store again, with the receipt that i kept, from when they built in the hd that had now crashed. They told me the hd had a one-year guarantee, so I at least didn't have to pay. But when I looked on the receipt, it said it was a 40g hd instead of a 20g on that was built in. I was already afraid this was going to cause problems, but he said they would take a look at it. And so they did.
Later that day, a store employee called me. That was when he told me the crash was bad, as in they couldn't save any of the data on the hd. Secondly, he told me that the crashed hd didn't match with the one on the receipt. Not only it was a 20g one instead of a 40g one, but the hd in my computer had a wrong date to it, he told me. On the hd it said 'march 2003' or so. They couldn't have built it in, he told me. I said that that was very strange, since I let them build in a new one in feb. 2004. Of course I couldn't prove anything, but thank god they wanted to build in a new one for free anyway.
So at least that's not the problem. But I think they're ripping me off. 2 months ago they built in a hd that was a year old and suddenly crashed after only 2 months of use. How can I tell they won't do the same again this time? But there's no way to prove it.
I do have to pay for installing the drivers for the video- and soundcards and so on. I'll try to install windows myself, everyone says that shouldn't be too hard, so I can at least save 60 euros for that. But when everything is finished, I'll probably have to wait ages for my landlord to get his friend to install my internet again, since we have wireless internet and my landlord has the base station.
At least Netphoria is going to help me.:erm