My Home Computer died for no Reason!!!

albertross_2

It's the price you pay when you don't have backups and a Windows disk. It always amazes me that people will quite happily pay a main dealer this sort of money to unscrew an oil filter and pour some oil into a car, pay a plumber this sort of money to change a washer in a tap, but begrudge paying someone this sort of money to fix their PC and recover data for them.

It's a shop, it has overheads.., two thirds of that £75 is probably going to the government, the VATman, the council, the insurers, the accountant and the landlord. If everyone could do it, then they wouldn't need to go to the shop.

£75 is about the price of XP home OEM, so unless you can get hold of a copy, or download an ERD/XP boot floppies/Linux Live CD, and run chkdsk, then you are going to have to shell out this sort of money.

Zahc

You should be able to remove the hard drive and set it up as a slave in another computer to retreive the docs etc you want.
On the assumption you bought the PC new, and didn't get an xp disc with it, I reckon you should be able to restore to factory settings from the hard drive. Unfortunately I'm not familiar with that PC (it is the little swish one?); here's hoping someone knows. Which company did you get it off BTW, they should have support......


Zahc