Well, I tried to back most of my stuff up, but I fear it was not enough. But, talked to my techie, he tells me that he is fairly confident that he can re-image most of it and get it onto the new drive, but then got to thinking, while he is at it, maybe stick in a new graphics card, but probably not gonna happen, just paid off the Jamaica trip so funding is tight, but need to suck it up, need the laptop for school, even tho I do have about 3 other computer available to me, just like having it, everything I need is on it. We'll see, I'm not too worried, I don't think its that dead that he can't get anything. But knew it was going to happen, it was acting up for quite a while, no matter what I did to keep it running smooth. Well cest' la vie I suppose.