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Old 21-11-2013, 11:51 AM
brian nordstrom (As avatar)
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Thats bad ! service for sure Stefan , I hear you .

Just before I left Darwin I had a 500gb external HD that was playing up so I took it to a computer repair store .
They checked it charged me $44 and said the HD was dying and for $400-500 they can send it away to Sydney and have all the data saved ,, damn !! .
I left the store to think about that as the HD has ton's of Astro stuff from years gone by on it ,, my backup , what a JOKE ! .

Any way the reason I pulled the 500gb drive out of its case in the cupboard was because I was selling my desktop and wanted to download everything into this backup drive .

So I went to JB hifi and grabbed a 256gb external HD for $47 and took it home and filled it from my desktop and on looking at the USB2-USB3 cable of the new one it looked similar to the 500gb HD one ?? so I plugged the new cable into the (so-called dying 500gb HD) and LO and BEHOLD it worked .

Those so-called experts were gonna charge me $400-500 for a $15 USB cable ??? I was NOT! happy and went and told them so in no uncertain terms ,, man even I know you check the cables FIRST , Experts NO ! Robbers yes ! .
Always get a second opinion when dealing with computers .

My vent over . .
Brian
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