Above, artist's rendition of me, walking out of the big box electronics retailer's store on Monday. This is just after finding out their technicians erased my hard drive by mistake.Posts on Notes from the Technology Underground have been a little thin lately. That's because I took my computer in to a large, national computer services company for a tune up. The young and evidently poorly technicians in their skinny black ties reformatted my hard drive. Without my authorization. This is a very, very bad - I lost a lot of data. (It's amazing how much data isn't backed up like it should be!) Anyway, recovering from this nightmare has been time consuming.
Anyway, I'm getting closer to being back to normal.
Name names! Save us from the error!
ReplyDeleteaugghhhhh!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain.
"That's because I took my computer in to a large, national computer services company for a tune up."?!?
ReplyDeleteWhy would you pay someone else to do what any person with average computer skills could do themselves in about an hour?
Why would you ever trust someone at a "large, national computer services company" with YOUR DATA?!?
I am almost speechless....
Michael Shannon
Author "Computer Secrets I Taught My Mom"
http://www.smartguypress.com
I was wondering why the posting had dried up a bit .. and this explains it !
ReplyDeleteI was well pleased when I visited here again this cold and wet Sat morning and I saw a heap of fresh content ... good one and keep it up .. and remember to BACKUP from now on ;)
You should have forced them to send the drive to a data recovery company.
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