My laptop hard drive crashed...completely...utterly...to the point that the
Geek Squad cannot recover any data from it. I am sad. However, since it is
less than a year old, it's under warranty and our estimate for repairs was
$0.00. We are hoping it will be fixed in time for our trip to Maryland in
two weeks. They said it might be. The data was backed up last on April 4th,
so I'm only out one month's worth of work. That is enough to make me sad...I
work on it every day and had just inputed a play I am producing and
directing for a large (about 500 people) picnic on July 22nd. I have to
start over. At least I had printed a hard copy of my work, I just hadn't
done the May backup yet. The drive physically crashed - the arms that grip
it to read it are no longer attached...they self-destructed. The computer
has not been dropped, bumped or otherwise abused. I usually close it when I
am finished. I was closing it, got about 2/3 down when I remembered
something and reopened it. Suddenly it started a noise as though it were
grinding meat. I knew then that the hard drive was gone to that big computer
graveyard. Heavy sigh.

DeeTee