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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 24 2009, 12:45 AM (238 Views) | |
| IrishDragon | Mar 24 2009, 12:45 AM Post #1 |
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Well tonight I spent 7 hours backing up data from a woman's PC. She had two 236GB hard drives (the missing 14GB was allocated for recovery). Formatted the drives (SATA), so I had to go buy a SATA/IDE/laptop external drive enclosure (needed one anyways). Reinstalled the drives. Reinstalled the O/S. Downloaded the missing network and chipset drivers. Reinstalled the drivers. Reinstalled her programs. Installed AVG and FireFox Ran Windows updates. (All updates - hardware, software, and high priority) Restored her data and ensured that the items opened in the correct programs. Finally finished. *phew* |
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| Obi-Jinn Kenobi | Mar 24 2009, 02:50 AM Post #2 |
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Sounds like fun! I enjoy doing that kind of stuff.
Is that what the kids are calling it these days? |
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| Leafy | Mar 24 2009, 03:18 AM Post #3 |
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Whatever.
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I spent SIX god damn months doing this sort of crap. Unpaid too .. My days where long AND I had a job at Burger King too. Stop complaining x3 |
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| IrishDragon | Mar 24 2009, 06:30 AM Post #4 |
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I wouldn't do it if I wasn't getting paid. XD |
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| Leafy | Mar 24 2009, 06:53 AM Post #5 |
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Whatever.
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It was an internship, which I had to do for school. I hated that fat man's guts from day 6 (week 2 x3) I mean, .. ever seen humpty dumpty? |
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| Walker | Mar 24 2009, 07:32 AM Post #6 |
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Hehe, been doing that for months with some hefty pay. Ranges anywhere from $25-$80 an hour depending on if it's private or corporate PC's. Was paid even more when I hooked up a network for Interstate Batteries at their corporate office in St. Louis, and I was still cheaper than licensed workers. I'm going to be getting a job as a sales executive at Best Buy in the electronics section soon so that I can save money to go to a video game design school and take some business management classes at my community college on the side. |
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| IrishDragon | Mar 24 2009, 07:44 AM Post #7 |
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I think I may post up a small freewebs website and advertise it at the apartment complex I will be moving into. Make a price list for the different services I would offer. Data backup/recovery Reimage (reinstall of an O/S) Wireless set up Virus/spyware removals etc.. |
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| Leafy | Mar 24 2009, 10:50 AM Post #8 |
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Whatever.
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Would do it too if there was a market for it over here. |
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| Walker | Mar 24 2009, 04:26 PM Post #9 |
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If you ever need some extra employees that work super fast to help carry a large workload, give me a call. A lot of that I can do long distance via remote desktop. |
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| IrishDragon | Mar 25 2009, 08:01 AM Post #10 |
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Most of the work being done involves working on corrupted systems. Example, this last machine had a damaged explorer.exe and several missing windows files. Can't really remote into a machine like that unless there was a previously installed remote console application (DameWare, LANDesk, etc...). More often than not, it requires physically removoing hard-drives, backing up the data replacing the drive and kicking off an O/S install. For the same client I will be going back and taking an extra HD out of one of their machines and placing it into another machine currently using a faulty HD. I need on-site help more than remote. Thanks for the offer though. =) |
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| Verlathor | Mar 25 2009, 08:26 AM Post #11 |
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In other words: DENIED. |
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| Walker | Mar 25 2009, 05:43 PM Post #12 |
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Not necessarily denied. I could always move up there and work. I have nothing tying me down to the place that I'm at now, and something like ID is starting could easily turn into a competitor to Geek Squad. |
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