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Godspeed, my Studio XPS laptop!

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Rockbottom, Jul 24, 2009.

  1. Rockbottom

    Rockbottom Well-Known Member

    I am sitting here watching my Dell tech disassemble my less-than-six-months-old Dell Studio XPS 16 -- which threw a bum DVD drive the other day. The amount of tiny screws and shimmying around to get the slot-load drive out hurts me just thinking about it.

    Lord, I hope this dude knows what he's doing!

    RB
     
    Rockbottom, Jul 24, 2009
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  2. Rockbottom

    Rockbottom Well-Known Member

    Well, FML. Good news is the DVD drive is installed. Bad news is that the hard drive is stalling out - which will lead to a hard-drive replacement in the ensuing days.

    FML!!!!

    RB
     
    Rockbottom, Jul 24, 2009
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  3. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Hope you backed up your data at some point.

    Buy the highest-capacity drive you can afford that will fit in your computer's chassis — they're relatively cheap.
     
    2muchcoffeeman, Jul 24, 2009
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  4. Johnny Dangerously

    Johnny Dangerously Well-Known Member

    I have that kind of laptop too, RB. It's the replacement for the one that broke on my last trip to Birmingham. I love it. Good luck with it.
     
    Johnny Dangerously, Jul 25, 2009
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  5. ArnoldBabar

    ArnoldBabar Active Member

    Get. A. Ma ... oh, nevermind.
     
    ArnoldBabar, Jul 25, 2009
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  6. Rockbottom

    Rockbottom Well-Known Member

    Dell is being awesome - guy came to the house to put the DVD drive in/diagnose the hard drive/order a new one. It will be here by Monday, and he will come back out to install.

    I love the machine itself. Hopefully this is it for breakdowns.

    Oh, and it saves everything to a "virtual" D-drive. On top of that, my totally awesome Norton 360 2.0 saves all my data as well. :)

    RB
     
    Rockbottom, Jul 25, 2009
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