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excessive data transfer charge?
I got charged $105 to have the data transferred from one HD to another:
D: to C: and vice versa (80g IDE, 60g SATA). Was going to do it myself, but felt more confident letting a pro do it so there wouldn't be any hassles from problems. The itemized bill was: $55 labor - service data transfer $55 labor - service clone HD With a $15 discount! Is this a fair price or did I get over-charged? -- faith /n./ The belief that the Beatitudes include "Blessed are the rich" and "Blessed are the warmakers." |
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shegeek72 wrote:
I got charged $105 to have the data transferred from one HD to another: D: to C: and vice versa (80g IDE, 60g SATA). Was going to do it myself, but felt more confident letting a pro do it so there wouldn't be any hassles from problems. The itemized bill was: $55 labor - service data transfer $55 labor - service clone HD With a $15 discount! Is this a fair price or did I get over-charged? if it took at least an hour, it's probably fair. 1 hour of a competent computer geek's time is probably worth $100 |
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On 14 Nov 2006 21:50:09 -0800, "shegeek72"
wrote: I got charged $105 to have the data transferred from one HD to another: D: to C: and vice versa (80g IDE, 60g SATA). Was going to do it myself, but felt more confident letting a pro do it so there wouldn't be any hassles from problems. The itemized bill was: $55 labor - service data transfer $55 labor - service clone HD With a $15 discount! Is this a fair price or did I get over-charged? Typical bench fees might start at $50 and up - just to have them touch it at all. Next what they have to do, could be easy or harder (than expected, though a data copy is pretty quick, easy, and straightforward). Even if it was quick and easy, they're going to charge a flat rate per service (or more rarely an hourly charge) and many jobs will be easier, fewer become a PITA and end up being losses to the technician (most often salvage from virus attacks are the type of service that can become an extended process but with a lower set fee, sometimes it's easy but not always). $105 is fair, it'd cost that much to have a professional work on many items outside the computer industry. The grey area here is that it doesn't take a lot of advanced knowledge to do this particular task, but even so, you did opt to have a (supposed) pro do it. Next time you might see if the geek down the street will do it for you, and negotiate price (though I'd be sure to make backups of any important data first- but that's a good idea even if taking it to a professional). |
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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage shegeek72 wrote:
I got charged $105 to have the data transferred from one HD to another: D: to C: and vice versa (80g IDE, 60g SATA). Was going to do it myself, but felt more confident letting a pro do it so there wouldn't be any hassles from problems. The itemized bill was: $55 labor - service data transfer $55 labor - service clone HD With a $15 discount! Is this a fair price or did I get over-charged? Typical and reasonable, I would say. Arno |
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"shegeek72" wrote in message oups.com... I got charged $105 to have the data transferred from one HD to another: D: to C: and vice versa (80g IDE, 60g SATA). Was going to do it myself, but felt more confident letting a pro do it so there wouldn't be any hassles from problems. The itemized bill was: $55 labor - service data transfer $55 labor - service clone HD With a $15 discount! Is this a fair price or did I get over-charged? -- faith /n./ The belief that the Beatitudes include "Blessed are the rich" and "Blessed are the warmakers." shegeek72: As you've heard, those charges are about the going rate in most places. Sometimes a bit more; sometimes a bit less. (Thank goodness for the $15 discount, huh?). And thank God for people that can't even count. [snip] |
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"shegeek72" wrote in message oups.com... I got charged $105 to have the data transferred from one HD to another: D: to C: and vice versa (80g IDE, 60g SATA). Was going to do it myself, but felt more confident letting a pro do it so there wouldn't be any hassles from problems. The itemized bill was: $55 labor - service data transfer $55 labor - service clone HD With a $15 discount! Is this a fair price or did I get over-charged? -- faith /n./ The belief that the Beatitudes include "Blessed are the rich" and "Blessed are the warmakers." shegeek72: As you've heard, those charges are about the going rate in most places. Sometimes a bit more; sometimes a bit less. (Thank goodness for the $15 discount, huh?). But the purpose of my post is to try to encourage you (in the future) to undertake this disk cloning process yourself. You'll want to maintain a backup system so that you could make a full recovery should your system become inoperable for one reason or another, e.g., a failed HDD, a corrupt operating system that no longer boots, etc. Through the use of a "disk imaging" program such as Acronis True Image, you can relatively easily backup your system on a routine & systematic basis. The process is straightforward and not terribly time consuming. The beauty of this type of program is that not only are you backing up your created data, you're backing up your operating system and all your programs & applications. So it's a comfort to know that should anything untoward occur to your day-to-day operating system you can recover fully with a minimum of effort. I use the Acronis program as an example of a disk imaging program. There are others. The Acronis program is particularly easy to use and as I've said, is quite effective. I recently posted step-by-step instructions for using that program to this newsgroup and one or more of Microsoft's XP newsgroups. If you're interested, so indicate and I'll post them again. Anna |
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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Anna wrote:
"shegeek72" wrote in message oups.com... I got charged $105 to have the data transferred from one HD to another: D: to C: and vice versa (80g IDE, 60g SATA). Was going to do it myself, but felt more confident letting a pro do it so there wouldn't be any hassles from problems. The itemized bill was: $55 labor - service data transfer $55 labor - service clone HD With a $15 discount! Is this a fair price or did I get over-charged? -- faith /n./ The belief that the Beatitudes include "Blessed are the rich" and "Blessed are the warmakers." shegeek72: As you've heard, those charges are about the going rate in most places. Sometimes a bit more; sometimes a bit less. (Thank goodness for the $15 discount, huh?). But the purpose of my post is to try to encourage you (in the future) to undertake this disk cloning process yourself. You'll want to maintain a backup system so that you could make a full recovery should your system become inoperable for one reason or another, e.g., a failed HDD, a corrupt operating system that no longer boots, etc. Through the use of a "disk imaging" program such as Acronis True Image, you can relatively easily backup your system on a routine & systematic basis. The process is straightforward and not terribly time consuming. The beauty of this type of program is that not only are you backing up your created data, you're backing up your operating system and all your programs & applications. So it's a comfort to know that should anything untoward occur to your day-to-day operating system you can recover fully with a minimum of effort. I use the Acronis program as an example of a disk imaging program. There are others. The Acronis program is particularly easy to use and as I've said, is quite effective. I recently posted step-by-step instructions for using that program to this newsgroup and one or more of Microsoft's XP newsgroups. If you're interested, so indicate and I'll post them again. Anna Sound advice. Running without a backup is like driving without savety belt: As long as everything goes fine, no problem. If something fails, added safety becomes invaluable. Arno |
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"kony" wrote (though I'd be sure to make backups of any important data first- but that's a good idea even if taking it to a professional). That's for sure. When I had Win 98 I had moved My Documents to C:\FILES. A shop put in a new used cpu and set the voltage wrong, so it started to go awry. I took it back and they reinstalled the OS, which deleted \FILES completely! Thank gosh I had backed it up. -- Ed Light Bring the Troops Home: http://bringthemhomenow.org http://antiwar.com Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. |
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On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:07:32 -0800, "Ed Light"
wrote: "kony" wrote (though I'd be sure to make backups of any important data first- but that's a good idea even if taking it to a professional). That's for sure. When I had Win 98 I had moved My Documents to C:\FILES. A shop put in a new used cpu and set the voltage wrong, so it started to go awry. I took it back and they reinstalled the OS, which deleted \FILES completely! Thank gosh I had backed it up. The sad part is that when a PC is taken to a shop, you still don't know if a senior there is doing the work or just taking the system from the customer and leaving the job for one of the less experienced employees. In the case of this thread and the drive copy that wouldn't be surprising at all, since the more experienced employees would be more valuable at more difficult tasks. |
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excessive data transfer charge?
I'm curious: what did you expect to pay/think was a fair price?
Thanks, Mike "shegeek72" wrote in message oups.com... I got charged $105 to have the data transferred from one HD to another: D: to C: and vice versa (80g IDE, 60g SATA). Was going to do it myself, but felt more confident letting a pro do it so there wouldn't be any hassles from problems. The itemized bill was: $55 labor - service data transfer $55 labor - service clone HD With a $15 discount! Is this a fair price or did I get over-charged? -- faith /n./ The belief that the Beatitudes include "Blessed are the rich" and "Blessed are the warmakers." |
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