For the second time in two weeks my hard drive has taken a powder, has taken a nose dive, has taken my sanity....

My laptop gets heavy usage, on 24/7. I am hard on hard drives, so when mine turned up corrupted two weeks ago, tragic but not too unexpected... replace drive, and begin the laborious process of replacing files that I hadn't backed up. Reinstalling programs, getting things off discs, downloading things... new bookmarks, new tweaks to all my fave programs. Everything was fine until I updated windows, and the infamous "Must restart system, restart now?" My laptop's last words.My hard drive has a read error and my computer won't boot up.

Not again...

I just want to cry. I tried reinstalling windows, it won't get far enough to do it. I put the drive in another laptop, same problem. A wonderful Western Digital Scorpio drive has been killed. Since this is the second drive to die, my laptop is the problem and is murdering the drives before their time, and I am unable to replace it.

I am so shocked at how much this upsets me. I feel like my life was tied to that laptop. My friends webpages, my email, my music and videos

My book...... ahhh my book! Thankfully I had printed it out a few weeks ago, so I have a semi current copy on my desktop, but the ability to just pick up and write anywhere.

Maybe this is God's way to get me to do something with my life. I am sure someday I will thank Him...

but right now I just want to kick Mr. Gates in the crotch. Grrrrrrrrr, Windows sucks!!!