Friday, April 16, 2010
This is a test blog posting
To see if it will automatically post to Friendly Computers of Georgetown Facebook fan page.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Restore disks? What's that?
So your laptop hard drive no longer works. It has crashed. You take your laptop into the repair shop and the first thing they ask you for is restore disks. Huh? I don't have any, didn't get any, don't know what you mean..... at Friendly Computers we get this all the time. And, depending on the model (one of the reasons friends don't let friends buy HP) restore disks may not be available from the manufacturer.
This is when it gets bad. A new hard drive is about $125. But you've got no operating system to put on it. The operating system is on the restore disks and you didn't receive any. Why not? Because you were supposed to make them yourself. One of the first things that owners of laptops (and PC's for that matter) do is to ignore that message that pops up that says "You need to make restore disks, click on this link" or something like that. If you did not make the disks, DO SO NOW. TODAY!
The manufacturers other than Dell typically only make a limited number of restore disks to sell as parts after the computer sale. When they are out, they are out. You will have to buy a new operating system ($200+) in addition to the new hard drive plus paying for the labor of installing it and finding the right drivers. So maybe $524 to fix it.
If you don't understand this call us now. If you do understand then are you making your disks TODAY?
This is when it gets bad. A new hard drive is about $125. But you've got no operating system to put on it. The operating system is on the restore disks and you didn't receive any. Why not? Because you were supposed to make them yourself. One of the first things that owners of laptops (and PC's for that matter) do is to ignore that message that pops up that says "You need to make restore disks, click on this link" or something like that. If you did not make the disks, DO SO NOW. TODAY!
The manufacturers other than Dell typically only make a limited number of restore disks to sell as parts after the computer sale. When they are out, they are out. You will have to buy a new operating system ($200+) in addition to the new hard drive plus paying for the labor of installing it and finding the right drivers. So maybe $524 to fix it.
If you don't understand this call us now. If you do understand then are you making your disks TODAY?
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