What are hard disc storage drives?

Computers are mechanical devices like the engine in your car. The main storage drive called a hard disc drive is divided or partitioned into sectors. These sectors are addressed by your computer operating system with the location of programs, data and control files.

What is the average life expectancy of a hard drive?

The conventional wisdom is that the general life span of a hard drive is approximately 3 to 5 years, but with constantly falling prices and lower quality drives, it is more sensible to replace your hard drive at least every 3 years. To learn more about the working of a hard drive, and to see photos of the inside of a drive along with technical explanations, see the  "How Hard Disks Work"  feature on the Howstuffworks website.

Your computer should not freeze or stop operating.

This is an indicator of a larger corruption problem. Firewalls as Norton, McAfee and others can block installation and themselves become corrupt. Cross linking and control file deletion caused by program installation and un-installation can corrupt your Microsoft Windows operating system in XP or Vista. In many cases several hours may be consumed running registry cleaners, disc cleaners and hard disc repairs with unsatisfactory results.

If you computer is 0 to 3 years old and you are experiencing problems, you can have your computer hard drive erased, re-partitioned and reloaded to restore factory new performance. The charge for this from our service department is $150. We will then guarantee operation of ClientMagic on your computer.  

If you computer is over 3 years old we recommend that you replace the hard disc drive and reload the operating system and applications softwares.You will then need to update windows and your main BIOS via the internet to insure you have the latest fixes and updates.

Out service department can do this for you if you wish. The typical cost is $250 in total including file or picture data backup where possible inc. parts and labor.

If our service department repairs your computer, we can then guarantee satisfactory installation and operation of ClientMagic on your computer.

Note: Computers with AMD 64 bit processors running Windows 64 bit Vista have known problems. Contact Microsoft for resolution of these issues or the computer manufacturer.

  
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