All The Eggs in One Basket

Let me paint for you a picture of technological tragedy. My 'rents bought a computer the beginning of the year (late January). On this computer I put for them all the files from their old My Docs folder. So this new computer had on it all of their files from their old computer plus 9 months worth the new files...now in a perfect world we would have things backed up...but as all know this isn't a perfect world.

Yesterday, or actually the day before yesterday we had a little power flicker at the house, and now the computer will not start up. It continuously tries to boot windows (in a loop) without ever actually doing it. I tried every trick I know, then I broke down and called tech support, they told me do everything I had already done, then told me that I would have to reformat the hard drive and start over from scratch, which was the thing I was trying avoid. So now we are going to get a hold of the guy that worked on our last computer failure and see if he can transfer the files from this one to the old one, and then transfer them back to the new one after we do the format...this is what I get for putting everything on the one computer for them... :)

You have to love technology!!! We'll have to see how it goes.