About that Drive
Last night I tested the back-up system on that new external hard drive. It was the slowest fucking thing I’d ever seen.
It was doing a reimaging and I started it at 6:00 with an entire bunch of drives and directories, but when I saw the speed of that I cancelled.
So around 6:30, I reset the back-up to a few key directories and let ‘er rip. When I got home around 9:00, it was still going. When I checked a bit later it was still going. When I checked for the last time, the back-up had crashed.
Great. Just paid $240 or 50 whatever it was for this stupid thing and it doesn’t work. So I called Yow today and told him that I wanted to return it, get something else, and suggested something. Unfortunately, his supplier doesn’t carry what I wanted so I told him I’d just like my money back.
Then he told me there’d be a 20% restocking fee. 20%. 20% is about $50. That’s $50 for me to pay for nothing. Hey, I’m rich, let me just give you $50 to have nothing. He explained that he had to pay his restocking fees, the credit card fee (which I paid $7 for), his gas to go get the thing. However, I still found $50 for nothing a little exorbitant and we negotiated. I finally agreed to $30, even though I loathe the idea of wasting $30 – that’s a case of beer, doncha know.
I also told him that I wanted yet another reformat because my browsers keep crashing. All browsers… IE, Avant, Firefox. There’s something still not right with this computer and I want it fixed. He freaked a little at that because he thought I wanted it for free, but I said, no, not for free.
So instead he came up with a plan. The plan is, instead of reformatting, he’s going to take the 1 terrabyte new external hard drive and make it my new internal hard drive. This is all fine for me as long as it fits, and it’s compatible. And I figure if we do that, we can also probably remove the other hard drive I have since I think I only have about 500 gigs total right now, so we can partition the 1T into bigger partitions and use one of those partitions as a back-up drive.
Let’s hope this works. I’m bringing my computer in tomorrow along with the external. I’ve asked him not to install anything except windows and updates, and my keyboard and mouse – I’ll do the rest since I don’t know what programs may be causing all the conflicts and causing the crashes.
In the meantime, I guess I’ll be using my little pink laptop to amuse myself tomorrow. The only thing that bugs me is that a reformat would cost me $80. Using the external drive has cost me $240 and now I’m left with no external drive. I’m thinking that it’s not quite a deal for me.
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Female, taken, fire, Sagittarius, Monkey, Toronto, two kids, one grandson, IT.
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is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
I’m beginning to think you need to see a priest. Your computer seems possessed and hell bent on making you spend more money on it.
Seriously, I’ve lost count now. Of the many problems that you’ve had with your system. Good thing you have your laptop to use.