Why you should never trust a Japanese with anything more complicated than raking leaves…

“WE HAVE TO REFORMAT YOUR HARD DRIVE…” - Yodobashi Camera, Umeda, Osaka

“There is nothing wrong with the hard drive. I need the screen replaced. I have connected the computer to an external monitor… there is nothing wrong with the hard drive, so please replace the screen.”

“WE CANNOT TO THAT. THE MACHINE NEEDS TO BE REFORMATTED.”

10 g.d. days without my computer because of their BS

This is my computer’s desktop - as it appears on the PC and as viewed on the TV - connected via an HDMI cable… NOTHING WRONG with the hard drive whatsoever. The Japanese were either too goddamn stupid to bother to connect it to an external monitor to verify that the PC screen was what had to be replaced - WHICH I TOLD THEM WAS THE ISSUE, or they thought, in typical Japanese fashion, that they could brazenly lie to my face and I would “defer”… Either way, what scum. I have to now order the part myself and take it to some tech in Amherst, Oxford, etc… to be done.