My one and only experience with Digital Solutions will be my last. Their first attempt at repairing…read moremy laptop was a failure. Afterward, they promised to "make it right." They tried, but they failed again. My 64GB RAM laptop now has only 32GB of working RAM and years' worth of emails were overwritten. My bill: $810.49.
I took a laptop to Digital Solutions on May 21, 2025, stating there was a hardware problem causing a "blue screen," and I needed them to repair the machine and to save my emails and files, if possible. I let them know the emails were very, very important to me, that I had backed up most of my files, but not my emails. The intake person (correctly) suggested it was likely a disc drive failure.
It took Digital Solutions 15 days to return the laptop. The technician (who was NOT the intake person) had replaced a defective battery and saved my files and told me there were no other hardware issues. However, he failed to save my emails before he reinstalled the O/S, overwriting them. To make matters worse, he installed Windows 10 instead of Windows 11. I let him know how disappointed I was, and I left. It got worse.
After three days the laptop failed because the bad hard drive crashed again. It turns out the technician hadn't realized the hard drive had gone bad. I returned with the laptop and was told they would "make it right." I already knew that could no longer happen, because the technician had overwritten my emails. However, I didn't think they would create additional problems the second time around. I was wrong.
On July 3, 2025, they called to say my laptop was available, but they were unable to figure out how to get it working with 64GB of RAM, so it was returned to me with only 32GB of working RAM. When I objected, I was told by the manager, Nicole, that they had spent a lot of time and resources on my computer and "my boss would kill me" if they spent any more time working on my laptop. She's right about the time. They spent a lot of time because the technician didn't detect and replace the bad drive. All the extra hours they spent "making it right" resulted from their mistakes. Yet, Nicole acted as if she was doing me a huge favor by eating the costs that accrued from their mistakes.
The bottom line: My emails are gone forever, the laptop is working with only half its RAM, yet it cost me about the same as what I just paid for a brand-new identical laptop.
Lesson learned: keep your data backed up and when your computer needs repair, take it someplace other than Digital Solutions.
