Bloody Computer!

My computer's hard drive has collapsed and the engineer says it's terminal. I shall be trying to get PC World to fix it properly (it's still under warranty, being less than a year old), but I don't hold out much hope! I am currently in Rachel's office, just catching up on my emails and writing this 'place holder' which will have to suffice in lieu of daily updates until I'm "live" again.

The engineer who came out early in the week reckoned that the hard drive had always been dud - hence my crash earlier in the year; and that when I'd then restored my data, the computer had 'moved' the damaged portions of the drive, but not flagged them and on Sunday I was unlucky enough to save some data (probably the iTunes update) into that portion again and set the whole chain of events off again!

PC World sent its own engineer out on Thursday lunchtime, with a replacement hard drive and a fistful of recovery discs, which he then left running. With all my own software to load, and what few back-up discs I had from when I got this new computer in December, it was almost 9pm by the time we started Film Night!