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Morto to get computer fixed

  • 08-05-2011 10:34pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    I dont know if this fits here, but I cant post anon on the Tech forum. It is sort of a personal thing though.

    Ok, my laptop is broken. Will need to get it repaired (something wrong with hard drive).

    So, its been like this for about 3 months but I cant bare myself to bring it to get fixed, as there was a lot of porn watched on the laptop/online. I would be horrified to think that they can see these things (imagine going into collected it at say PC World all red faced?). The laptop is/was worth about €800, so would prefer to get it fixed, but am so mortified. Any advice please please?


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  • #2
    Miss Fluff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭Miss Fluff


    Personally I don't know of anyone who doesn't watch porn on their laptop so I'm sure the people fixing it genuinely wouldn't bat an eyelid. Unless the porn is indecent/illegal in nature then I really don't think you've anything to worry about. Seems a shame to miss out on using a perfectly good computer for that reason.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,505 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Well they wont care really. It's a laptop. If porn was never invented, no one probably would have bothered to invent the internet until 2005. Internet=porn.

    If you want to chance it, delete the porn. They would be able to find remnants of it if they want to, but they wont be looking for it so they probably wont come across it. Delete saved files, internet history etc. It's fine.

    To make a sweeping generalisation, the majority of computer techs are lads who've spent most of their youth on the net, so it's not like they haven't watched it too. As for female techs, they've trained in a workplace full of the aforementioned lads. It's really not unusual. They're like doctors for computers, you might be embarrassed about your problem but it's something they've seen before.


  • #4
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Unless you have it saved in really obvious locations like a "porn" folder on your desktop or in your documents folder, then they would have to actively go searching for the porn to find it. Which they won't. They will want to fix your laptop and get it done with.

    Unless you're someone particularly famous or you make some kind of scene when dropping your laptop in, they will have no interest whatsoever in scouring your internet history for porn.


  • #5
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,012 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    I fix computers for a living. Wouldn't think twice about seeing porn on a machine, its par for the course. Unless its a work machine(and I work for the company) or its kiddie porn.


  • #6
    kjl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,127 ✭✭✭kjl


    I also fix computers, I wouldn't even look to see what you have been up too. If you are very worried, send me a pm and I can give you further info.

    Discretion assured.


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  • #7
    Permabear
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  • #8
    LighterGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭LighterGuy


    some good replies there op!

    so ...

    - if the porn you were watching was in anyway NOT illegal just bring it up be fixed.
    - if you still cant bring yourself to do it, do what the above says, get a new hard drive and either get pc world (etc) or seach on youtube to how to do it yourself. Its not that hard.


  • #9
    Firetrap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,442 ✭✭✭Firetrap


    What you could do is get your hands on a hard disk enclosure that would fit your laptop's hard disk or get a sata (or whatever) usb cable. You then take out the hard disk, hook it up to another machine and work from there. Honestly though, unless you're famous like Gary Glitter is, the person in the shop won't give two hoots what you've been looking at.


  • #10
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Fix computers myself for a living and porno is run of the mill and not obvious unless I actively went looking for it (Something a good technician shouldn't)

    Even so, I've come across porn on client machine's plenty of times before accidently, thought nothing of it and carried on with the job I was tasked to do. Unless it was an office machine related to the client / company or highly illegal porno (child porn) then I'd be obliged to do something.

    In the end, what you do on your machine is private. A good technician shouldn't comment or go searching for that kind of stuff.


  • #11
    Cathaoirleach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 701 ✭✭✭Cathaoirleach


    OP, if it's a PC, just order a new hard drive and install it yourself - it is really easy and will save you the repair cost.
    http://www.elara.ie/productdetail.aspx?productcode=ECE2106792

    There would have been a repair CD with the laptop, just stick that in and boot up the machine and reinstall Windows.


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