Centex PC Repair

The display on my wife’s relatively new Dell Inspiron laptop began to show a message indicating that the hard drive was failing. The laptop worked fine, but it was clear from the dialog box that the hard drive was going to crater in the not-​too-​distant future. My wife assumed that she would need to get a new laptop.
I purchased a replacement hard drive at Fry’s and planned yo do the replacement myself. But the online manual indicated that it would not be simple or quick… remove the keyboard, remove the motherboard, un-​do many cables, etc.
I took the new HD and the laptop to Christian at Centex PC Repair in South Austin. In a couple of hours he had replaced the drive and re-​installed Windows 7 and some drivers. He re-​booted the machine when I came to pick it up, and everything worked. I spent a few hours at home reinstalling updates and applications, and it’s still working.
I still prefer to muck around the hardware of desktop computers myself, but if I have another laptop failure I’ll take it to Centex.