Hello,

In October, I found my Dad's old Dell 8200 sitting on a shelf in the basement while we were cleaning the basement. I was able to make the hard drive operational again. I decided to make this my main computer by upgrading the memory, hard drive, battery, speakers, and mouse. Well, after five months have passed, thousands of man hours invested in work (both mine and paid help), the hard drive crashes. I call Dell's technical support (Who have been a great help in the past) and they tell me that they can't/won't help me or replace the hard drive. They tell me to contact the manufacture and...