Back from the Dead

No, not me… My computer. In another trip down memory lane, remember when my computer magically could not find a device from which to boot? And my subsequent email and response from Dell Latin America Tech Support?

Well today, just about a month later, I finally got my new hard drive installed. While I am not impressed with the speed of service (evidently the authorized service tech had the part for weeks, but just figured out how to use voicemail this week), I am impressed with the quality of service. The technician was both nice and technically competent. I am also impressed with Dell's Extended Warranty - providing on-site service in a foreign country (a small Caribbean island, no less), which differs from the country of original purchase. I would have not expected it — I half expected to have to ship my laptop back to the US via express mail (read: very expensive) for service, so that I would be without it for a number of weeks. The extended warranty was definately a wise investment :-)

After getting the hard drive installed, I ran Norton Ghost and backed up my entire system to its previous state with a couple of clicks. No days of long labor of reinstalling all programs, changing settings, cursing because of lost data, etc. I should have done this years ago - it would have saved me a lot of headaches… Oh well, live and learn…


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Lothar Stracke Says:

Glad you are up and running ! Maybe you can teach me to use this on the computer at home !

Carsten Says:

Yeah, backing it up is definately a good idea…

After I figure out why it won’t recognize that it has a hard drive installed… :???:

 
 
cathie Says:

is this your first save of the year?

Carsten Says:

Yeah, since medical school doesn’t count as REMO-approved CME, I figured I could at least put this down on the renewal document… :roll:

 
 

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