Which brand?

Here's a short one, but one to be noted as it is so ridiculous.

Early one morning we have a lady walk through our door, bringing back a laptop we had lent her. My colleague signed it back in as he usually would and the lady enquired if we had any other brand laptops.

My colleague said that no, we didn't.

"Oh" replied the woman. "I was told you had loads of brands."

"No, sorry these are all we have."

"Well, that's not very good." She said "Other brands give you a much faster internet connection."

The Corrupted Hard Drive

So one morning we have a chap (widely known for his giant lack of common sense) come through the door to our office carrying his laptop. He explains that the laptop was not booting and asked if we could take a look at it.

I asked what was happening and I got a vague explanation that the Windows XP installation was cycling at boot up. At least thats what he said.

I switched on the laptop, but instead of watching the laptop attempt to start up XP I got a "NTLDR is Missing" error and nothing else.

The guy mentioned that there were several "important files" on the c: drive (a big no-no in our company, everything should be saved to a network drive and/or USB, making hard drive failure a doddle.)