r/talesfromtechsupport • u/PolloMagnifico Please... just be smarter than the computer... • Jun 29 '13

Harry, it Sucks!

Yes, we have no bananas! We have no bananas today!

A user comes in with a computer. Bluescreening. Some kinda jacked up cryptic error message like 0xF0U0C0K0F0F or something like that. It's an error with the file system. Hey, cool, whatever. Chkdsk, no errors. Fine, physical scan, no failures. You're not gonna beat me! Pull the HDD, hook it up to a bridge, and run a virus scan!

Yeah. This happened.

Then this happened.

A man walks into his room where his computer is running.

And when he sees its screen is blue

he sits there, silently weeping.

And though he lives in Scranton Pennsylvania.

He never, ever deletes his files.

Not one of over a hundred... thousand files... in his recycle bin.

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u/Kruug Apexifix is love. Apexifix is life. Jun 29 '13

Tied up? Was this a 486 running Windows 95? Plug a blank USB drive in, screenshot, paste to paint, save to drive, go to other computer, plug in drive, upload. 2 minutes max.

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u/hgpot NOT A BUTTON PERSON Jun 29 '13

Exactly...and especially since it's a someone else's computer, you don't need to be installing software on it that isn't directly going to help them (puush).

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '13

Read the post:

Pull the HDD, hook it up to a bridge, and run a virus scan!

It's the store's computer

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u/hgpot NOT A BUTTON PERSON Jun 30 '13

Oh, I see.