AA>||         Another of my many nieces, was here yesterday for a problem,
AA>||    she had a virus and as I was away, she went to Bureaux en Gros
AA>||    (Staples) and to the tune of $203.00 Cdn, they formatted her HD on
AA>||    the laptop, a GL. Nice machine. She lost all her work. They
AA>||    installed XP SP 2.

AA>Wow..  that's an outrageous amoutn of money just for a reformat - and even
AA>if they re-installed Windows.   For that price I'd expect to have my data
AA>files maintained.

Agreed, but could it be that they installed XP when it previously had 98
or earlier?

Jay
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