Laptop repair man jailed for nine months

Donnie

Old news, but certainly a strong warning for computer repair shops.

Link here

rdpro

as a general rule, it's always best to remove your hard drive from the pc before sending it off for repair (assuming the fault isn't the hard drive!)

repair shops always have spares they can use to test stuff if need be.

kwikbreaks

rdpro wrote: »

repair shops always have spares they can use to test stuff if need be.

no doubt all preloaded with the precise operating sytem you use and the same drivers you have for all the hardware on the machine.

Yeah right.....

Hammyman

kwikbreaks wrote: »

no doubt all preloaded with the precise operating sytem you use and the same drivers you have for all the hardware on the machine.

Yeah right.....

Indeed. I find Ubuntu LiveCD usually does the job though.;)

rdpro

kwikbreaks wrote: »

no doubt all preloaded with the precise operating sytem you use and the same drivers you have for all the hardware on the machine.

Yeah right.....

As I said: 'assuming the fault isn't the hard drive'

I would expect either the fault was amazingly apparent as a hardware failure, or that someone would already have done a backup and factory reset if it was software.

BLT_2

I repair my own so there's no way they are going to be able to find all my !!!!!! :-)

andyb215

linux with an encrypted home directory

sassy_one

Is there anyone we can trust these days??

Donnie

According to the video report, none of the other repair shops tried it on.

Richie-from-the-Boro

sassy-one wrote: »

Is there anyone we can trust these days??

- yes !

Most busy [ good at what they do - by definition ] people are not interested in what's on peoples machines. Most of us are not remotely interested, dozens of machines a week, any idea how much money / time would be wasted ?

Even using automated Linux dongles it still takes time.

If you ask me to ' rescue ' photo's documents etc I charge a extra on the basis that if you want me to do your menial ' general housekeeping ' tasks at my rate that's fine, it's a service you are paying for.

Anyone working for me would get the bullet if caught mooching on someone's machine, its my money, my good name, and their unemployment.

sassy_one

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

- yes !

Most busy [ good at what they do - by definition ] people are not interested in what's on peoples machines. Most of us are not remotely interested, dozens of machines a week, any idea how much money / time would be wasted ?

Even using automated Linux dongles it still takes time.

If you ask me to ' rescue ' photo's documents etc I charge a extra on the basis that if you want me to do your menial ' general housekeeping ' tasks at my rate that's fine, it's a service you are paying for.

Anyone working for me would get the bullet if caught mooching on someone's machine, its my money, my good name, and their unemployment.

Thank's for posting, although you can't trust everyone, it's just the odd few that do it

Glad to hear there are still some decent people around in business