So why isn't all that other important stuff on your hard drive? (I'm assuming you mean external hard drive) I've tried shopping for an external drive myself, it seems the perfect solution to avoid these heartbreaking computer moments, but every single one I look at seems to have the same amount of customers complaining that it failed too and they lost everything anyway.

It could be worse. Your hair could have come out bad too.

Most of my stuff IS saved to my external, but in the case of pictures and Documents and stuff I only get to copying that folder once every other month or so. In the case of iTunes stuff, holy fuck is it complicated. The music is automatically saved on my external, but the other stuff won't save anywhere else but in the My Music folder. Actually it seems like it's saved somewhere in the friggin' ether because when I had to restore my computer a few months ago I copied all that stuff to my external and STILL iTunes couldn't read all the information once I put it back where it belongs.

My external's pretty mag. Other than it always trying to offer me Google desktop, I've never had issues with it. That's my biggest compufear, though: losing all of my music and movies.

We've got our priorities straight. Honestly it's the only thing keeping me Fromm screaming today, constantly being told how good I look.

Bet that's a pretty typical morning for you, huh? ;) lol.

Hey, the death is a serious condition. Only slightly worse than the hiv.

What kind of computer do you have and do you like it? I'm taking applications for new ones.

I has a Dell XPS M1530 and I like it alright. It has had its problems.. but to me the important thing is that it continues working despite its problems. Ha.

I"ve had to restore it a lot.. but oh well. Something screwy happened when I'd try playing DVDs.. well I don't play DVDs on it any more, and I haven't had any problems. Ha.

The battery died on it is the most obvious problem right now. Kinda sucks, but enh, I don't use my laptop on its battery too much anyway. I take it home, put it one spot and so just leave it plugged in. Same at work.

I suspsect the battery died because it won't go into sleep mode and has problems going into hibernation. Occassionally I'd pack away my laptop thinking it was off in one manner or another and then I'd get home or just get to it later and it was practically on fire.. damn thing never shut off, kept running in a confined space and was all super hot. -_-

But it's still kept trucking along.. lol..