Can a hard disk shrink? Or did ****USA steal my HD?

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A receipt by itself neither proves nor disproves anything. Its function
is to backup what the plaintiff testifies, and the testimony is what the
judge is going to give the most weight to - if it's believable.
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Right.
The OP says, "I have the receipt for
the original HD (was an upgrade)..."
The receipt is for the drive, not the system, and says nothing about
the drive being in the system when it was taken to ****USA.
 
I think you have a legal case (especially if the hd was included with
the system and you have the receipt for the system purchase) if the
store refuses to cooperate.
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"I have the receipt for
the original HD (was an upgrade)..."
The OP's receipt for the drive does not put the drive in the system.
 
Read the links I supplied
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None of those are any news to me.
and they answer it correctly.
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Dont say anything different to what I said
with FAT32 partitions over 32GB with Win2K.
I'm not going to waste my time arguing
with people who think they know it all.
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Even you should be able to bullshit your way out
of your predicament better than that pathetic effort.
 
While possible, IMO it's highly improbable.
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Nope, not when the system was randomly freezing and the
obvious candidate, the power supply had already been tried.
These places like to make money. If they need to change
a drive to check what will work, they usually charge for it.
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They cant charge for it if it wasnt the problem.
On top of that, there's no reason to do a copy
from one drive to another to check the drive;
just install the new drive, and see what happens.
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Not a viable approach if it only freezes or BSODs every
other day and a power supply swap didnt fix that.
Doing a copy takes time that's not needed
if you're not charging to change the drive.
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It may well be needed to pin down just what
is causing the freeze or bsod every other day.
If they were assuming the original was a "standard" drive,
why did they replace it without charging for the replacement?
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Most likely that was an attempt to see if that was the reason
for the freeze or bsdo every other day, after the power supply
had already been swapped and the problem remained.
Even if it was a warranty replacement,
they would charge for the copying.
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They cant, legally.
 
What original receipt?
The OP says he has a receipt forthe drive;
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That receipt.
he didn't say the receipt was for the system.
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Doesnt need to be. Its the receipt for the upgrade he got done.
But that doesn't explain the copy. Copying takes time,
and these places make their money charging for such work.
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Not when the system freezes or bsods every other day after
the upgrade. They get to wear whatever it takes to fix the the
problem. Presumably he paid for the copy to the upgraded drive.
I have a hard time believing the tech would replace
the drive, do an image/copy, and not document it.
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It wouldnt be the first time with a complicated problem
where the obvious swap, the power supply, didnt fix the
problem, and other possibilitys were tried, and turned
out to not be the problem either. Turned out to be the
power supply after all and it took the third one to fix it.
Presumably the first two had the same design problem.

And the tech forgot to put back the original
80GB drive when it turned out to not be the
cause of the freezing and bsods every other day.
 
Right.
The OP says, "I have the receipt for
the original HD (was an upgrade)..."
The receipt is for the drive, not the system, and says nothing about
the drive being in the system when it was taken to ****USA.
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He appears to be saying that he paid for that upgrade,
has the receipt to prove that, and that he took it back
when it started to freeze and bsod every other day to
get them to do the upgrade he paid for properly in the
sense of getting a reliable system with an 80GB drive in it.
 
jeffc said:
No, you don't get it. The point is NOT how much money I have. It's how
much the computer repairers have. They DON'T work for $4/hr.,
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Huh? Yes they do, close to it.

-Mike
 
Rod said:
He appears to be saying that he paid for that upgrade,
has the receipt to prove that, and that he took it back
when it started to freeze and bsod every other day to
get them to do the upgrade he paid for properly in the
sense of getting a reliable system with an 80GB drive in it.
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When someone buys a new disk drive, it's typically considered an
upgrade. Using that term in no way means that someone else did
the installation for him. And even if they had, there is no
proof that it was in the machine at the time he brought it to
CompUSA.

I would like to hear some answers from George L that others have
been asking. What brand disk drive did he have in it? What's
there now? Is the data exactly the same as was there before he
brought it in? And did he check to make sure that it is not
partitioned in Windows?

BIll
 
When someone buys a new disk drive,
it's typically considered an upgrade.
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That phrase is generally used when someone
gets the hard drive upgraded in a system.
Using that term in no way means that
someone else did the installation for him.
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Bullshit. It generally does, and the
OP can say what he meant anyway.
And even if they had, there is no proof that it was in
the machine at the time he brought it to CompUSA.
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Doesnt need to be any proof. CompUSA
would have to do the proving on that.
I would like to hear some answers from George L that
others have been asking. What brand disk drive did he
have in it? What's there now? Is the data exactly the
same as was there before he brought it in? And did he
check to make sure that it is not partitioned in Windows?
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Separate issue entirely to the claims that
its unlikely that the drive did get swapped.
 
That phrase is generally used when someone
gets the hard drive upgraded in a system.
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According to you, perhaps. I upgrade my systems frequently, and no
one but me ever touches them.
Bullshit. It generally does, and the
OP can say what he meant anyway.


Doesnt need to be any proof. CompUSA
would have to do the proving on that.
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nope - CompUSA would be "innocent until proven guilty" - it would be
up to the accuser to make his case.
 
According to you, perhaps.
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According to many others too.
I upgrade my systems frequently,
and no one but me ever touches them.
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Clearly not the case in his case when he clearly got CompUSA
to work out what was causing the freeze or bsod every day or so.
nope - CompUSA would be "innocent until proven guilty"
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Nope. And civil law is on the balance of
probabilitys, NOT beyond reasonable doubt.
- it would be up to the accuser to make his case.
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Wrong. In spades with a small claims court.
 
Even you should be able to bullshit your way out
of your predicament better than that pathetic effort.

Rule of Holes.
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So youi can't support your statement? I thought not.
 
None of those are any news to me.


Dont say anything different to what I said
with FAT32 partitions over 32GB with Win2K.


Even you should be able to bullshit your way out
of your predicament better than that pathetic effort.
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I think it answers the OP's question(s). It may not satisfy the
"I think I know it all / more" types but nothing would and that wasn't
my intent.
 
I think it answers the OP's question(s).
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Yes, but so did my post, without the reams of
irrelevant detail that only applys to other OSs.
It may not satisfy the "I think I know
it all / more" types but nothing would
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Even you should be able to bullshit your way out
of your predicament better than that pathetic effort.
and that wasn't my intent.
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You have always been, and always will be, completely
and utterly irrelevant. What you might or might not
claim your intent was in spades.

AND your original claim that "Generally you're wrong" is wrong.
 
So youi can't support your statement? I thought not.
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Even you should be able to bullshit your way out
of your predicament better than that pathetic effort.

Even someone as stupid as you should be able
to find plenty of 'support' on that question of the
legal standard with civil and criminal matters.
 
COULD WE WAIT FOR A RETURN POST FROM THE OP..which will probably never come....
There are many unanswered questions, I think we could ALL agree on that...
 
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