Help 120€ for a laptop hardisk + OS instalation?

[Vasconcelos]

Are they trying to scam me?

 

[Raven]

Yes. How are they going to install it on your laptop without having your laptop there?

 

[Vasconcelos]

I left it in the comp store for a diagnosis. The manager just called me and told me it will be 120e for the reparation.

I think im gonna buy the hdd and install it myself at home. Cant be much harder than building a desktop, and I built quite a share of those.

 

[cHodAX]

Depends on hard drive size really but I would imagine that they are charging you 30 euros for the OS install which is fair when you consider the wages and overheads involved, they are a business after all.

 

[soze]

Hard Disk costs xxx and then an hour of Work Shop time at xxx and it is probably a fair price.

As for doing it yourself then if it is a well known brand then finding drivers should not be an issue. So if you have an OEM install disk then doing it yourself would be an option.

 

[Vasconcelos]

Hhhmm about the laptop brand and the correct harddrive, I thought ANY harddrive (i just looked on a Seagate Momentus 5400rpm 500GB for 60€) would work...

My laptop is a PackardBell, Do I need a PackardBell hardrive?!

 

[soze]

Hhhmm about the laptop brand and the correct harddrive, I thought ANY harddrive (i just looked on a Seagate Momentus 5400rpm 500GB for 60€) would work...

My laptop is a PackardBell, Do I need a PackardBell hardrive?!

9 times out of 10 it will be fine. But my Lenovo will not work properly with my WD Scorpio Black. It just spins the fans at 100% the whole time it is on. So the only way to get 100% compatibility is to replace with a supported part.

 

[cHodAX]

Packard Bell are pretty much always a standard drive. If they are charging you 60 euros for a basic OS install then it is a bit steep.

 

[Vasconcelos]

Packard Bell are pretty much always a standard drive. If they are charging you 60 euros for a basic OS install then it is a bit steep.

Thx Cho!

I decided to do it myself. After all, I have quite my share of desktop comps built with my own hands.

Removing the hdd case of the laptop was piss easy, and installed a Seagate 500gb 5400rpm hdd for 60€.

I just need now an OEM copy of W7 to use with the PackardBell windows licence that came with the laptop. Hope I dont find any compability issues, would hate to throw 60€ down the bin

 

[cHodAX]

You will probably run into a few driver issues, goto the Packard Bell website, put the model number in and download the drivers onto a memory stick.

Never throw 60 euros down the bin, that could feed a large Greek family for a month!

 

[Vasconcelos]

You will probably run into a few driver issues, goto the Packard Bell website, put the model number in and download the drivers onto a memory stick.

Never throw 60 euros down the bin, that could feed a large Greek family for a month!

Thats 1 month of weed!