Help me please! I think I'm being Robbed...

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  1. dave910

    dave910 Member

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    I took my notebook to bestbuy and they put a new hard drive in it but they wanted to charge me to put xp back on it is it realy worth haveng them do it or can i install my own recovery disk
     
  2. The_Fiend

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    You should be able to just use the recovery disc.
     
  3. jziman

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    Yes it is true best buy is not really the good of a deal with there geek squad. Mony grubbers is all they are. By bud is on the geek squad some of the stories i hear are horrific.
     
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    example:
    "My computer gets pop-ups".

    $25 drop off fee.
    $50 service fee.
    + tax

    What do you get for your $75? They install the freeware version of Ad-Aware, run it, clean you out, then uninstall it, so that you have to go back again later.

    "I need to backup some data temporarily (for a reinstall, etc)"

    Fees range from $1-$5 per gigabyte, +$5-$10 per DVD, plus of course the $25 drop off fee. I personally have almost 300 gb of data...

    WHAT A BARGAIN.

    Not.
     
  5. dave910

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    I Went back to Best Buy to pick up my computer after they took back there $80.00 reinstall. Took it home reinstalled my recovery disk and save myself $80.00. Take it from me the Geeks are not the only smart people in this world...
     
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    update all your drivers
     
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    Actually the Geek squad sucks! Bunch of third rate college drop-outs if you ask me! My 7 year old son could do better pc work with his dingy! If you have a second PC, why didn't you just hook up the new drive as a slave and transfer all the files from the old HDD to the new HDD?
     
  8. dave910

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    The new HDD Is In My Nootbook Not My Desktop. The Only Reason I Took It To The Geeks Is Because It Was Acking Like It Was A Loose Cable Or Something I Wood Have To Open It Up And Void The Warranty.
     

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