wishing i was in the bahamas..., laptop warranty repair from hell Options

[Aaron Cox]

been with out a computer for 10 days now.... (at school...)

laptop has 3 year extended warranty thru bestbuy.
its 1 year old.

i rook it in, because the AC adapter female jack on the computer was loose and had an intermittant connection.... (fails to charge sometimes)

best buy "geek dumbass squad" says we dont do hardware, we sub it out to a warranty place.....

10 days later....
my mom picks it up. (today). i drive home between classes to get my computer (online reports and tests to take.... tired of the library (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/dry.gif) ) and i boot it..... IT HAS A NEW OR REFORMATTED HARDRIVE!!!!


anyway... im not going to write about how i almost got thrown out of best buy... or the loss of 40 Gigs of data, and a fair amount of legit purchased music downloads.....

anyway.. so im SOL... computer is having them do the system recovery thing to try and see if they can save anything...

kinda sick to my stomach thinking baout it....

so yeah. thats where i have been.......................................


wishing i was im the bahamas as matt's thread says (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif)

[VaccaRabite]

There is a lot of data on my computer at home, but the only stuff I would _really_ lament loosing would be my music and picture library. So, that stuff gets backed up, and is mirrored on 2 different machines. Even though my older PC has no speakers and was de-authorised to play iTunes stuff, I still use it as a big back up drive for pictures and music.

Any documents that I have are mostly unimportant. I guess I should save my current flow diagrams and things like that. But for the most part, papers that I wrote last year are not going to be important to me. Lost game files just means I get to play more. reinstalling applications is a PITA, but its not the end of the world.

But yeah, for the future... Anyhting that you don't want to loose should be backed up, and anyhting that you _really_ don't want to loose should be backed up on multiple media (CD - second hard drive - etc.)

Zach