lol :-/
lol :-/
Got it working now. I left it to boot up - after it had been 'installing and configuring' for two hours, I tried rebooting it and doing a rescue from the other partition. I put it in two partitions, but after that it did eventually load and then took 10 minutes (literally) too boot up Explorer or any other program. So spitting nails by now, I did a final attempt at a rescue using the single partition option, and now it's fine. Only took 6 hours to get it up and running! Just as well I never give up innit?
I've sorted it now (finally!) I can't afford to wait for a replacement (two months) or a refund (maybe a month). I only bought it from Amazon because they offered me 9 months free credit :)
I'm sure there are plenty of people who'd love to have that problem.
... to pay off credit card statements. It just sometimes happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Apparently most people (someone mentioned
60%) use credit cards as a means of payment, not finance. It doesn't imply wealth.I've always had money to spend even when I had very little of it (and for a period, when I had negative net assets). And paying a credit card bill has never been a problem, other than forgetting to make arrangements in time. It's just a question of living within your means.
That's microsoft for you
Aye lassie, you are definitely not a giverer uperer innit?
Recently I have had two run ins with CC companies: Barclaycard, zero per cent deal for umpteen months, so I set up a direct debit for the minimum, after a couple of weeks the online account service said: 'Dirext Debit set up' with a green tick next to it. I wrongly assumed that this meant that the next payment would go out by direct debit. A day after the payment should have reached them, on a Sunday I received a dozen or more calls to my home phone and mobile asking me to call back, no mention of who it was calling (privacy reasons) as I was able to check the number I rang Barclaycard, established the problem and paid by debit card. The zero per cent deal was cancelled, a twelve pound charge made and interest started !! Not surprisingly I rang and complained, it seems lots of people have made the same mistake (assuming that direct debit set up with a tick means it is in operation) I got the twelve quid back, and the zero deal, but the next month there was some interest, which they have now given back. They have also restricted my account and reduced the limit, which is apparently nothing to do with my complaint at all, yeah right !
Well said Mike, I work on the same principle.
It often seems to throw people when you do this, but it seems that you're more likely to get your money back - and less likely to lose a friend.
Well, it gives the card provider a bigger profit, upon which they pay more tax.
Have you never bothered to read the terms and conditions relating to your card?
but just one example: I had a
So why did you do what you did? Perhaps you are the architect of your own destiny.
Or perhaps they found that they were making a loss...
Bless!
Exactly. I sometimes pay a part-payment (using internet banking) half-way through the month. There is no way that either my bank of Mastercard (or, for that matter, Amex) could stop me building up a positive balance. Though whether I'd want to is another matter.
This might help in any future choices!
Serves you right for using a Micro$oft product...
Didn't have much choice really did I? That's what came installed on it - all I did to bugger it up was switch it on!
Ah, in that case you're stuffed.
Being honest, it took me by surprise when a new netbook did this.
We tried the Windows 7 for a couple of months or so but dumped it for Linux because it more or less crippled the machine and made it incredibly slow.
Every computer I've ever bought has suffered from software problems within a month or two of buying it - the last laptop (Vista) was rendered completely useless. It doesn't help that they don't give you recovery disks anymore.
This is Windows 7 - I think I'll put Linux on this, but not sure how to do it (never done it before).
As they say, the only time Microsoft will ever produce a product that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuum cleaners.
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