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
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.
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.
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...
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?
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.