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1345788	2013-06-16 22:48:00	Is $150 for a reinstall reasonable? Generally yes its Ok, I Know of several places that charge a lot more than that. A lot has to do with whats done, a simple reinstall doesn't take long, but add in downloading drivers, saving the persons data ( most still dont have backups) then putting all the programs and data back, all can easily take a day or longer. Add in internet usage - take the HP PC I have here now, the drivers alone are over 1GB, then theres all the updates - Its all adds up.	wainuitech (129)
1345789	2013-06-16 23:04:00	Generally yes its Ok, I Know of several places that charge a lot more than that. A lot has to do with whats done, a simple reinstall doesn't take long, but add in downloading drivers, saving the persons data ( most still dont have backups) then putting all the programs and data back, all can easily take a day or longer. Add in internet usage - take the HP PC I have here now, the drivers alone are over 1GB, then theres all the updates - Its all adds up. I have been pushing my IT manager about this as I know my design computer is not backed up anywhere at work, freaks me out that I could loose everything and I can't take in a USB drive its not allowed	gary67 (56)
1345790	2013-06-17 00:01:00	Screw it, do it anyways! I would :p	Chilling_Silence (9)
1345791	2013-06-17 00:08:00	Is $150 for a reinstall reasonable? I have no Idea but it takes me less than an hour of my time to install windows, $150 is more than reasonable. 1) backup all the data . ALL THE DATA MUST BE AV SCANNED . Some have 100G+ of data(music,photos & movies) to backup & restore. THAT TAKES SOME TIME 2) reload Win 3) FIND download & install all the drivers 4) Install Office , acrobat reader, AV etc etc etc 5) setup email, import old emails & test. Import old docs etc . Sort out issues because cust cant remember email password. 6) Install Win Updates, Office & WIn SP's 7) Install Win Updates.Reboot. Keep repeating till no new updates found 8) Redeliver onsite & setup printer, camera, itunes etc etc Yep, all that in less than an hour? . I call BS :banana	1101 (13337)
1345792	2013-06-17 00:29:00	$150 is more than reasonable . 1) backup all the data . ALL THE DATA MUST BE AV SCANNED . Some have 100G+ of data(music,photos & movies) to backup & restore . THAT TAKES SOME TIME 2) reload Win 3) FIND download & install all the drivers 4) Install Office , acrobat reader, AV etc etc etc 5) setup email, import old emails & test . Import old docs etc 6) Install Win Updates, Office & WIn SP's 7) Install Win Updates . Reboot . Keep repeating till no new updates found 8) Redeliver onsite & setup printer, camera, itunes etc etc Yep, all that in less than an hour? . I call BS :banana Well I was talking about my time for a reinstall of my own personal machines and actual active time not how long the overall process takes . If you charge people for the time spent waiting for things to finish it's a lot more than an hour obviously . I don't do this professionally and I genuinely was asking if it was a far price, not trying to say it wasn't . 1 . not an issue I don't store data on my C: drives 2 . 10 mins of actual time, up to about an hour if you include waiting for things to happen but I don't sit there and watch it so 10 mins 3 . Motherboard disk is on the shelf, graphics card drivers are easily found 5-15 mins 4 . I don't use most of those and I don't bother, programs are installed later as I find I need them with the exception of AV which is one of my first items - prob 10 mins 5 . About 5-10 mins tops, I have 3 E-mail accounts and I just recently installed live mail and set it up in less than 10 mins 6 . They install themsleves, no need for intervention from me - very little time required just waiting 7 . same as 6, I will manually start the process if I want the machine finished the same day - but again I don't sit there and watch it . 8 . fair enough, wasn't talking about that . In any case it seems like that's considered a good price so fair enough . I'd still reccomend they just try it themselves, might save them money and won't cost any more if they fail anyway - as long as there is no important data to be recovered off the drives of course that's another story .	dugimodo (138)
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