One day a few weeks ago my one year old laptop just didn't start up as usual.
I hadn't done anything special that would've caused a possible malfunction and usually I can fix most the cpu related problems myself. But this time a blue screen flashed when the operating system was starting up and then, nothing.
Since I didn't even get into anything else than the boot menu, I thought I might aswell send it to repairs. It was in "repairs" for a few weeks and I was updated about the progress, a possible harddrive malfunction, reason unknown. But I was not to worry, they have means to save what's on the hard drive.
They didn't. I got the computer back today with a new hard drive and lost EVERYTHING I had on it in the process all school work, all work, photographs, 10000+ car pictures, loads of information, notes, reminders, everything.
Why? Probably a short circuit or something. It "shouldn't have happened" they said.
"Never think it could happen to you?" Well neither did I, so I didn't really have any backups or anything. Many times I though about it but, because i was "always updating" and just made sure my cpu stayed virus-free I never burned down anything "irreplacable" on disks. Sucks.
What's the point of this thread? Well hopefully no one else would have to go through this. Don't just use your disks to burn down movies and music. If there is something irreplacable, make sure it's indestructible.