Why you should always do your own puter fixes

Big Sky Redneck

http://www.rock101.com/cgi/asx.cgi?morningshow&&ComputerRepair.wma&&Computer_Repair

You will need windows media player

COONASS

Does that guy own any guns??????

We Live in a World of Give And Take, But A Lot Of People Won't Give What it Takes.

ghost614

sucks for that guy, but i'll keep that in mind next time my computer craps out.

.280 freak

Ghost -

You oughta have that second star in about one more hour!

offeror

Funny --
Never give your computer to be repaired unless they contract to back up your hard drive first. Then, still count on losing some of the data. Don't back up to another partition on the same drive, or even on another drive in the same computer if you can help it. Get one of those external backup drives and backup yourself to tape media before your computer breaks down. By the time it breaks down, it may be too late to save anything. Even if they guarantee they will save it for you when you give it to the techs. There are no techs who Know everything. They are all spot-knowledge people who fix things largely by trial and error.

I am currently using Windows Me along with Norton Ulitilies. I run WinDoctor almost daily, and every day it finds new errors, large or small, to repair. Eventually, these add up.

One application designed for a different operating system, when installed on your computer, can cause you to crash when you re-start, without warning. You may then find your emergency boot disks useless. You may have to do a clean install of Windows.

A full Windows install disk set is hardly ever included with a new computer anymore. What you get instead is called a recovery set. If you have to use the "recovery" set that came with your computer, you are screwed, because it will recover your computer to the way it was the day you bought it. That means re-doing all documents, system updates, Windows upgrades, software, software updates, documents, settings, all e-mail archives, address books -- I mean everything. Think about that, folks. Just a friendly suggestion from a guy who fixed his own hard drive crash last week (and still wound up re-installing just about everything).

- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878

Alpine

The cheapest, fastest back up media is cd rewrites. You can buy a cd burner for $100.00 or less. Rewrite media (rewriteable 1500 times or more with no magnetic loss) costs 17 cents for 650 Mega byte disc. Way cheaper than tape and lots faster. Burn at 144 K bytes per second at 1X rate, and most all burners will exceed that. Back up data / docs at least once a month.
You gotta feel for the guy, computer business is so competive that customer service doesn't exist, and you will never talk to a human unless you are persistant beyond the realm of reason.

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