Tiger12

Always said you can't kill a bloody croweater.

But that never stops a Thai driver from trying.

Have to catch you at No.1 for a cleanser mate.

Glad to hear your alright.

Just goes to show no matter how long you been riding here there is alway one that will still manage to find a way to surprise you.

Recently I had to upgrade my hard drive in my computer as I needed more space.

I took my computer to a place called IT-Connect in Pantip Plaza on the ground floor which is part of the Hardware House chain. Making the misgiven assumption that being a large computer chain they would have some idea of what they were doing.

I should have known better as I previously used them to upgrade the RAM in my computer and they failed to put the new card in properly of course wouldn't work when I got home, but was a simple matter of slotting the card in properly. I was prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt on this one. My mistake.

I thought it was a pretty simple operation to install a new hard drive. Simply copy the old one onto the new one, re-partition it to give more space in the C- drive which was down to 1% and away you go. How wrong I was.

Firstly they installed the new hard drive and said its fine away you go. A check revealed that yes they had install the new hard drive, but that is all they had done. Had not copied the other hard drive, no formatting, nothing. I asked them how this was going to help as my C:/ drive was still full. It was so full you could not even download program updates. And yes this was explained prior. My wife who is a Thai native even explained it just to make sure he understood. Oh yes we got it we were assured.

On return a second time I was shown a nice new hard drive, all formatted and partitioned, apparently correctly, but the employee was pretty keen to hand the computer over and have us on our way. A bit more checking of the hard drive revealed that all the material from the old hard drive had disappeared. Firstly he tried to tell me that it was on another drive, but when questioned further admitted that it had "disappeared."

Then he told us that it was our fault as the old hard drive had fallen out so we had mishandled the computer in some way. Again it was pointed out to him that he was the only one who had handled the computer since it being brought in for an upgrade.

The manager was brought into the conversation and he attempted to lay the same blame, and as usual refusing to accept any responsibility. Next step was an email to the companies head office in Bangkok. As expected no response.

Fortunately I have all of my valuable stuff backed up on an external hard drive, but still some material was lost which included all my email addresses, internet favourites and some documentation.

Anyone thinking of using this place I suggest you try somewhere else. There service was appalling, the explaination worse and apologies non existent.

I have since had the computer checked by someone else who could not recover the data and believes that they have deleted the hard drive.

Degrees and weetbix packets comes to mind when considering this experience.

The AFL grand final will be shown live at the DownUnder

Crownies and VB on sale.

Game starts 10.30.

Great Hamburgers and Fish and Chips too.

Crownies only 120 Baht as well.

Sounds like the place to watch the footy to me