If you are like me, you normally would feel helpless when computer crashes... That happened to me couple days before New Years. Taking it to a repair shop, of course you can't avoid the fear that because you are clueless about the subject, they can take advantage of you. Pretty much what happened to me with the first shop I took my laptop too. Just to do diagnoses, they charged me $40. In couple of days final verdict was that hard drive is dead and I have to replace it ($80) and it will take about 2 - 3 hours of labor - altogether about $250... and that without data recovery... I decided to shop around and saw Erin's shop with great reviews. Stopped by on Thursday. Erin said to call back in few hours. Long story short, I had my laptop in same condition before crash (with full data recovered) next morning (NYE!) and no hardware replacement was needed and I only had to pay less then one third of what the over shop was to charge me without data recovery. Erin is very honest and true professional, who has great knowledge of what he does. Absolutely trustworthy, which is not easy to find, specially in this economy. Would recommend him to all my friends!
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