"thumper" wrote:
> I wonder if there is a decent computer technician in many
> computer
> stores anymore. You see more and more students building
> systems
> and as long as things go to plan that's OK, it's when theres
> a problem
> they don't have the experience to fix things in a hurry. So
> you do
> without your computer for 2 weeks

To use an old adage "The Penny dropped with me years ago"
I was in dire straits with a hard drive and when the Geek arrives
and confirms nothing that I already did not realise.
I asked questions about the drive.......
Things like.
Can you repair the printed circuit of the controller board?
Can I buy a new circuit board on it’s own?
Can I swap the boards if I have two drives the same ?
Do you have a special tool to do without the Controller board?

He installed a new drive into the system and moreless ignored the
questions I asked and simply pushed he me to data recovery with the
drive.
Not going with that a few days later he called back to pickup the
drive because he now had some yes and no answers for me.
Too late, I opted to do it myself, whats the point if he talks like
a million dollars but has no experience?
I fixed that drive and plenty since.
I used the same principal for internal problems
I find many techs/Geeks hand out vague advice about which software to
use to recover data because they have not physically done it

later