Quote -  Technicians have a name for people like that..'unemployed'.  Anyone selling you used equipment (sometimes a model will be in production for a few years, but if they no longer make it, that's a bad sign). You get enough complaints like that, and the managers either fire the guy, or go out of business.

Funny you should mention that.  A few months after I bought the computer and was having all of those problems, I called to talk to the sales guy to see if he could help. He no longer worked there.

I noticed that  not long after  I took my tower to them and threatened to sue them that they had changed the name of the company on the outside of the building.

Quote - they formatted both drives. They never saw my shadow again..

Glad I'm not the only one experiencing massive file loss. I think my experience from my first computer (reformats once or twice a month and complete data loss each time) has made me numb to file loss.  My friend in California can't believe how calm I was when I lost all of my data to a corrupt external hard drive...twice,  LOL  

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi