First I forgot mayo at the store and when I went back for it my card was declined ($4 wtf!?) then when I tried to look at my bank account online I got the blue screen of death. No more puter! All my hawaii pictures are gone!

That is awful! Do you have a backup disc with your pics???

Yes I agree down with technology bring back the horse and buggy and pen and paper

I had that blue screen of death before. I only had to buy a new monitor.

Even if the memory card from the camera has been deleted pictures can still be recovered from it. Also a computer repair place might still be able to extract your data from the computer for you.

Yeah it definitely isn't the screen :( dell is sending me a new hard drive and I had no backup for my pics. I called Drive Savers and they said $500 to $2000! I have a family friend who will give it his best effort I'm sure but I'm still sad!

I had to get a new computer about 2 mths. ago.

Yikes! That's a lot of money

I work for an IT company and we have some of our customers set up to have their data backed up via a secure site on the internet. Its pretty cheap and safer than backing it up on another hard drive.

The guy at dell told me I should get a backup hard drive and I probably will after this. I'm concerned with sending my old hard drive back to dell. Doesn't it store basically anything I have ever typed before? Can it be cleared at this point of any information that may still be on it. Oh argh my hand is tired already from typing on my blackberry!

I went through that. I was worried that the old one had viruses that I didn't want to go to my new computer.

This may seem like a stupid question but.....

Did you try doing a hard reboot of the computer before you called Dell??? Did they tell you to give that a try???

i hate bsod. i need better ram than the junk i have in now.

I'm typing on my blackberry too .... NERD ALERT

If data can be recovered from it at this point then your friend should be able erase it too. If not Dell won't be able to extract the data anyway so I wouldn't worry about it

There's a pretty good chance the data can be recovered. Any relatively savy computer guy can set it up as a secondary disk and copy over your data.. .assuming it's still spinning up.

Yes, if they really wanted to Dell could pull info off of the disk.. but likely they run them through a degaussing and dispose of them. If you're worried, assuming the disk turns out to be readable, you can have your friend get a utility to wipe it.

lol... yeah, what she said.

Allright you guys this is getting really creepy. I just lost service on my blackberry for like 20 minutes. Its like there is a rainy computer cloud over me.

Myka...my nerd twin! Ooh I could kiss your face for bringing me sanity. Of course dell can't recover what isn't there right? Don't know why I thought otherwise!

Tng...how do I know if its "spinning up"?

Does it start to boot at all? I mean does the windows logo come up and then get you get a blue screen? If so, then it's trying to boot from the disk.

Or listen to it and feel it during boot up (don't touch the electronics, but you can still touch the edges). They spin pretty fast.. likely 7200 rpm or so... and you can usually feel and hear it.

You didn't describe the details of the failure, so I don't know why you think the drive is bad. If you're getting a blue screen, the drive is likely spinning up, since this is a windows screen. If the drive was completely bad, you wouldn't boot up at all and you'd fail before bootup with no blue screen.

I talked to my computer guy and he said he can most likely recover at least my pictures but to go ahead and let dell replace the hard drive...sneaky sneaky!
I guess by your description it is spinning up...I get the windows screen and then it goes to a screen that says it closed windows to protect my computer. Sorry for the limited info (typing on this thing is a pain) and thanks for the advice!

im tired of usin technology. why dont u sit down on top of me. ayo im tired of using technology, i need you right in front of me. ooooh she wants it. she wants it and oooh she wants it. so? im gonna give it to her.

Which Blackberry do you have? Use blackberry messenger?