Backups = good advice. My brand new machine just died on me. I just spent almost a week trying to fix it then getting the data off of it once I realized it was toast. The 'latest backup' I had didn't complete (I probably shut the computer off during a backup or something...not sure) so I had to move the data off it onto an external, which took FOREVER. When I would run a chkdsk on it all it would say was "file sector (fill in string of numbers here ) unreadable". Sucked! Luckily my warranty covers it so we should be reunited soon. But yea, backup your files. When I get mine back I'm going to set it for nightly backups while I sleep.
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