Im totally ****ed. My computer used to turn itself off for no reason, I took it to a repair shop and they told me it was the power supply, then I got a call later saying it was the "system board" and it needed to be changed. All together it came to £240 ($360!). It was a hell of a lot, but OK. Today I collected my PC, I turned it on at home and THE HARD DRIVE HAS BEEN FORMATTED! When I called the shop to ask what the hell they had done and how on earth they had deleted all my info without asking me first they were extremely agressive and said that "even an 8-years old knows that when you change the system board all the contents of the hard drive are deleted" plus apparently there was a banner somewhere in the shop saying that customers agree to back-up everything (everything? the whole 20Gbs?) or they'd leave the computer at their own risk. Besides I have put HArd drives on lots of different computers with different systemboards and it has always worked without having to format them first
So anybody knows if there is any way to get the info back? Data-retrieving companies? Can I sue these people somehow, take them to the citizen's or consumer's bureau? Does the fact that there is a small banner somewhere in the shop saying that I have to back up everything mean that they are untouchable even if they delete all the info without even asking first? And does it make any sense saying that if you change the systemboard then you lose all the info on your hard drive and that customers are supposed to know about it even if they have never studied computing in their lives?
So anybody knows if there is any way to get the info back? Data-retrieving companies? Can I sue these people somehow, take them to the citizen's or consumer's bureau? Does the fact that there is a small banner somewhere in the shop saying that I have to back up everything mean that they are untouchable even if they delete all the info without even asking first? And does it make any sense saying that if you change the systemboard then you lose all the info on your hard drive and that customers are supposed to know about it even if they have never studied computing in their lives?
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