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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
Bad news: Despite the surge protectors, it looks like my 7-year-old laptop was a victim. I was originally able to get in under Safe Mode, but after running a scan disk overnight, even that doesn't work. I'm going to try to go in on an Ubuntu USB drive and see how many of my files I can get off of it before it completely dies! I have a lot of the important ones on Dropbox (thank goodness, someone on this site talked me into Dropbox!), but at least one of the critical ones - the one with all the brand-new passwords because I moved in the last couple weeks - wasn't. So fingers crossed, it's not in the "dead-zone".
I'm going to try reimaging, but I'll admit after 7 years, I was thinking it was probably time to upgrade anyway. I really don't want to "upgrade" to Windows 7, though. I'm entirely happy with XP. It does what I want, when I want, and I'm familiar with how it works. I really don't want to have to learn yet another operating system!
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I had a 6 month old hard drive die on me two Fridays ago. I feel your pain. I still have to RMA the drive. It's taken me over a week to slowly get back to where I was. Ubuntu has saved me many times! Always unplug your PCs when the power goes out or it's storming. Power spikes can be deadly. Surge protectors only protect so much. We had an amazing severe storm just move through here so I had to unplug mine till now. I use Vista and like you I don't want to move to Windows 7 yet.