Welcome to Hell.. I mean The Geek Squad Desk

[Bullitt]

So, I just learned the lesson of the year: never EVER EVER take your computer into the new-fangled Best Buy Geek Squad.

I took my baby in after Windows decided to freeze up at the login screen after booting up. So I decided upon convenience and took it into Best Buy to have the Geeks take a once over and fix it. Mistake #1

Mistake #2: I didn't have them back up all my movies, music, and irreplacable pictures first. Being the idiot I was, I decided to take their word for it that they wouldn't have to back anything up, all would be well after they fixed the problem.

I took it in Friday afternoon, got it back today, came back to school, plugged everything back in, booted up, everything was looking fine until uh oh.. there's not alot of stuff on my desktop.. hmm. Upon closer examination, I find that the folder I kept all my install files for various updates and programs and whatnot, plus about 40 gigs of movies and video files.. was gone. Completely gone, a quick search of the hard drive found absolutely nothing. I say a little prayer and check my My Music folder and my My Pictures folder and my My Documents for all my school work. Same exact thing... which was nothing. I ran another search on the hard drive, this time for just .mp3, and another for just .jpg.

Nothing.

And then it froze. I tried to boot it back up again, all is well for about 30 seconds, then it freezes again. Almost exactly the same problem as before, except they just got rid of the whole Windows login screen.

So, I am taking it back to Best Buy tomorrow, telling them A.) I want you to get my files back, B.) back them all up onto a 120 gig external hard drive I bought the day I took it in so I could back everything up when I got it back, and C.) And I am not paying a f*cking cent. And if they can't get any of it back, I am going to as politely as my body will allow to ask for the manager, and tell him that I would VERY much like a refund because all they did was erase the things they said would be fine. And if they don't I am never setting foot in the store again. And I will strongly encourage none of my friends to either.

I was having a great weekend, paid $20 for $45 seats at an Oasis and Jet concert friday, box seats at the Indians game today, and made plans to go to the Foo Fighters and Weezer concert next friday.. and now this

I am about to shit a brick