i think you're an asshole who has nothing better to do than stereotype
people as "geeks"
read what kony has to say... be enlightned, that guy has experience.

your post is flaimbait, pointless, stupid etc..
no one cares about you whining about a techie who doesn't have the
ability to repair a broken harddrive, even if the guy had the knoledge
and ability to do it he wouldn't be able to, harddrives are delicate
devices.. you need to be in a special environment to service them.
i think the best any techie could do is replace the harddrive or if
you're not satisfied you'd go to a specialist and pay 10x + the cost of
a new drive to recover your precious data. you need to ask yourself how
badly do you want the data recovered, not if the techie can do board
repairs.
Captin wrote:
> One thing that held me back for years dealing with my business's
> network of computers were Geeks. I was convinced just by listening to
> these Proffessionals that they were worth every penny to keep the
> family businesses network of computers up to scratch.(Logistics and
> Transport)
> It seemed in a two minute conversation I would grasp 50% of the facts
> if I was lucky and simply reach for the check book and send them on
> their way.
> I found out the hard way that the average tech knows all the easy
> things but when push comes to shove data recovery is beyond many of
> them . The average computer store tends to diagnose a hard drive as no
> good, install a new one, install Windows for you and return your
> machine.
> Now 95% of the time thats proably OK...But the thing that really
> cheesed me off were the Geeks that waffled on doing nothing more than
> trying to prove to the world how smart they are yet still offering no
> solution to the problem. When a hard drive fails theres more important
> issues than being told by a Geek he prefers to call the Controller
> board a daughter board or logic board. Further when Windows 2000 came
> about I was happy because there was less for me to do installing
> drivers etc.
> I did not care that the true computer nut was staying with Windows 98
> and he thought he was big and tough because he could install his own
> drivers etc.
> The culture seems to be sometimes that some of these IT people don't
> know how to communicate outside of their cocoon. I mean it's fine to
> communicate within your proffession but at the end of the day they
> don't pay the bills. It's the average Joe that often doesn't have the
> knowledge and the reason he hired the Geek in the first place is to do
> the job. If a Geek is not going to communicate and be easily
> understood then why have them.
> A classic is on forums when the average person posts and the Geeks
> ego gets in the way of things. The person with the problem may not be
> familiar with technical terms so the obvious thing to do with 99% of
> people is relay it in a language everyone can understand.
> However, and I don't think it's rare at all, some Geeks can't do what
> 99% of the population do when it cdomes to communicating.
>
> I'd love to start this thread and have people add to it. I don't know
> if the Geeks will listen , but never say never
>
> later
> Please Post
>
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