LOL. Story I hear everyday at my work,
80% of our business is network consultants for small, medium, and large business (some international) but we also have a storefront where local people come in and we work on their computers.
I NEVER talk down to anyone that comes in, or try to go all nerd over their *** and make it seem like they don't know what they are doing, because its just bad business and I always wanna help anyone out.
Geek squad are a bunch of morons. They get paid 10 bucks an hour ( so under paid for tech industry its not even funny) but they charge over 200 an hour for a house call
Their goal is not to repair, but to get you to REPLACE whatever is broken...remember, they work for a RETAIL store. they are not your friend. So many of my customers are people who come from Staples tech support, or Geek Squad who mess everything up.
Tom, just from what you are saying it just sounded like there could of been a problem with the driver, or, windows system file. Good job with the check disk
Lol they told you your HDD was on its way out? Seriously what does that even mean? I would only say that to a customer if it was making sounds it shouldn't, or if I could read the drive from our sled but it wouldn't boot windows ( that just happened on Thursday in my shop)
As for the check disk and the msconfig BOOT tab, be careful.
If you really wanna do a thorough check disk but not have to deal with "on next re-boot" crap just type
"Start>run>cmd> chkdsk C: /r"
What the "/r" does is it check 5 stages, as opposed to the default 3. and automatically fixes error.
Next time you ever have comp problem just PM me ..that goes for anyone.