my computer is toast

[Catty1]

Oh NO. Are they going to try and retrieve the stuff off your drive?

If they don't have specialists (I am sure they do) I have a tech friend of several decades experience who does data recovery...and it's not the $1,000 job either!

If you can swing it, get a small external backup drive - see if the repair guy can give you a deal.

http://www.memoryexpress.com/Product...9/Default.aspx

Here's a sampling of what they are. Page one here is not listed in price order, so have a boo. Don't even bother with page 2!

[Queen of Poop]

I am going to memory express today and have a trusted friend and computer geek doing the work.

[blue]

If you can swing it, get a small external backup drive

I dont store anything on my PCs, I have a small home server that I store everything on and it duplicates anything Im worried about losing over multiple hard drives.

[Queen of Poop]

I've got the Mac Time Capsule for doing all my back ups. Unfortunately it has been a bit since it ran a back up. But it should still have alot of stuff on it.

I actually went to the memory express on 58th Avenue by Chinook Centre. What a cool place. What nice people. I am hoping by Monday night to be back in a Mac world.