Yikes, I can relate! We ended up buying an external hard drive AND backing things up on two different servers.

I was so grateful to my husband who was able to reformat my old laptop a few years ago when it suffered nothing less than a fatal error resulting in 100% death (it wouldn't even turn ON at that point). He was able to save my data, all of it - but when he reformatted he had to partition the bad sectors so we lost 14 out of the 20 sectors - I limped along with 6 good sectors for another year until we came back to the States and I could buy a new computer.

Good to hear you were able to rescue most of your info - that can be SO stressful!!

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