yslee80my wrote:dear all,
thanks for the advice. Might try to wipe the HD clean first...
Really in the mess. But luckily notebook still can use...
At least if i dont bother with the startup problem, i might be contented with what i have now..
Hahaha.........
LeeYs
A clean sweep, will make all the difference, on a 2 year old computer, that has not been formatted before, although, are you sure you know what to do, it maybe much better to get a quote from the local computer shops, it should not cost very much at all, although they may try to pull the wool over your eyes, and charge for the time the computer is installing......at rip off prices, once the install operation is started, it can be left until finished, the whole scenario, should take under 1 hour at local rates, it should be affordable.......Generic builders and testers of computers, which i used to do free of charge, to gain more knowledge of the business, mostly to satisfy my inquisitive mind of how everything works can be quite a profitable hobby and pastime.
Many will try over charging, it's all part of greed and business in general, not only here in Singapore but world wide.
The problem being there isn't much control on people doing computers, a person that has a certificate for Microsoft Network, may know very little on actually building computers and troubleshooting.
Example brother-in-laws computer is full of viruses, I told him before returning to Singapore, nothing wrong with the hard disk, he takes it into the shop and tells the UK Microsoft Certified Networking Engineer/Owner.
XP cannot start up, because its full of viruses.......leaves it with him for repair.......Brother-in-law returns to pick it up, and the engineer had told him the harddisk was knackered, so he put a new one in, and transfered all the data photos, that he wanted to keep, to the new one.... Charged him 85 quid....When I returned to UK, I asked him what was wrong with the computer this time because it was playing up....he said it had never been right since coming out of the shop....
So I took it to the shop and asked him, why he hadn't checked the machine for viruses, because the last time i had checked it for him, there was over 60 and he didn't have any protection at all, to stop them..... I said you told him it was the hard disk, and even if it was, you transfered infected files to the new disk....what have you to say about that.....Leave it with him he said...
3 days later the computer was ready and he attempted to charge 75 pound for re-installing.... Of course I queried, the bill and said, you have certainly made some mistake here.... you have already charged him 85 pounds to put in the new hard disk, and you have transfered the viruses....You should have listend to what the customer had said in the first place,,,,because i had checked the computer and it was so infected with viruses, that it was ready for crashing.
There was nothing wrong with the hardidisk, and you have transfered the viruses to the new disk, you had charged him for, so you can whistle for your money! If you transfer any data from any disk, you should have checked for viruses before transfering, did you do it! Of course he didn't.
I advised the brother-in-law not to pay him the full amount, in fact it was his fault, It took a while, before he admitted that his experience, was in setting up networks, not troubleshooting... So there are in fact many microsoft certificates to collect....Which leads to cowboys in the field....but like anywhere, we find them even when they are fully qualified.. hence be careful to get quotes on repairs and some sort of warranty with the repair at least a couple of days.
No data whatsoever should be transfered from any disk, without checking it is virus free data first, one cannot assume anything, the job must be done by the book or the costs go sky high and joe bloggs gets the bill!