I personally have not had any dealings with Dell's Customer service, However My neighbor has on a desk unit.They are not real friendly and expect customers to know programer's information. On top of that he ended up talking to some one in malasia who barely spoke english. Told me I should have went to comp usa or best buy for my laptop instaed of DELL
Has anyone else had this happen to them? I began getting an error message [nav unable to locate configuration files <ok>] on my Dell Inspiron and called tech support to assist me. I ended speaking with a tech support agent who was rude, short and quite impatient and who ran me through the following sequence: 1) remove norton antivirus 2) reinstall norton antivirus. A new problem arose in that NO PROGRAMS WERE LISTED IN THE INSTALL/UNINSTALL PROGRAMS FOLDER.
Then he asked when did I first experience the problem and I told him the previous night.
The next sequence he had me run was a system restore. When I told him the system would not restore to that point, he said that what I needed to do was reinstall my operating system.
So he runs me through the sequence and tells me it will take about 30 minutes to do so. When that is finished he says that YOU'LL NEED TO REINSTALL ALL YOUR PROGRAMS.
"Why?" I asked.
"Because they're all gone" he says.
"All gone?" I replied.
"yes" he says.
"All my programs and files...all gone?" I asked in disbelief.
"Yes, gone all gone" he tells me.
"You didn't tell me they'd be all gone, that's not good" I tell him. AND THAT'S WHEN HE STARTS GETTING POLITE AND I KNOW SOMETHING REALLY BAD HAS HAPPENED...NAMELY 3 YEARS OF GRAD SCHOOL WORK HAD BEEN ERASED!
Well, he then tells me to call RADIO SHACK and "they will retrieve my data!"
I call them back 30 minutes later and I get concessions from other tech support agents and their supervisors and a customer sales rep that the tech support agent 1) didn't follow standard operating procedures to warn off data loss and suggest backup and 2) that it was gross negligence on their part and that they will pay for the retrieval of my data. BUT NOW DELL WANTS TO RENEG EVEN THOUGH THEY SAY LOSS DATA WILL BE CONSIDERED THEIR RESPONSIBILITY ONLY IF NEGLIGENCE ON THEIR PART CAUSED THE DAMAGE OR LOSS.
HAS ANYONE ELSE EXPERIENCED THIS WITH DELL? THEY REFERRED ME TO "DRIVESAVERS" A COMPANY THAT THE SUPERVISOR SAID SHE HAD REFERRED OTHERS TO IN THE PAST SO I'M ASSUMING OTHERS HAVE HAD THE SAME EXPERIENCE.

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