My laptop was not working with regards to Microsoft Office products. I could not use Outlook, Word or Excel. The tech proposed copying the files from my hard drive, reformatting my hard drive and copying the files back in. As I could not find my Office disk, the tech said I could use the free trial for 30 days. He downloaded it, but selected Personal rather than Home use. I did not realize it till after he left and the other laptop user's emails could still not be accessed.
I also noticed that my laptop appeared to now be running more slowly. I think this is odd since my laptop is now as it was 'from the factory'.
I could live with these issues. However, the next day when I attempted to retrieve photos, I noticed folders were missing entirely. I did say repeatedly that every picture folder needed to be copied. Now pictures from Christmas, my Mother's 85th birthday party and photos I had taken before my husband passed away are gone. I did not have them backed up, but I would assume that he understood what I meant when I said that ALL the pictures needed to be copied. Needless to say, I was extremely unhappy about this.
The next day caused more aggravation as many documents - both Word and Excel were missing. Some of these documents were related to my husband's estate and will take weeks if not months to recreate.
I am sorry that I did not monitor each step as he performed them and double-check all of his work. I assumed (incorrectly) that he would be precise during each step. He was not.
The tech came back today to run a 'deep scan' to attempt to retrieve the files. The scan ran for 3 hours - I am not exaggerating this. He ran something called Recuva. I saw two files - a word document and an Excel document that showed they could possibly be recovered. The tech then looked to see if any pictures could be recovered. In doing so, he closed the window of the scan that had run for 3 hours. A scan that had run for 3 hours would now have to be run again. I instructed him that I would run the scan and would attempt to recover any lost files. The word document could not be retrieved - it was corrupted. The Excel document could be retrieved. So after 6 hours of running a scan to retrieve important documents and pictures of family members at birthdays, vacations and holidays, exactly one document was recovered.
Before he left, the tech informed me that he had only used this software a couple of times. On the phone when I set up this appointment, he made it sound like this would solve all my issues. Apparently, he exaggerated the software's success.
I will now be spending the next several weeks attempting to recreate a dozen very important documents. Unfortunately, the pictures are gone for good.
I will not be using Geekatoo in the future, nor will I recommend your services. read more