It's the hard drive

Remember the laptop problem I'm having?

It seems like the problem lies with the hard drive. It seems like the hard drive has given up after about 4 years of usage. My Windows OS is gone. We've tried using the recovery disk to reinstall the OS but nothing.

The good news is that a new hard drive is not that expensive at all. Definitely much cheaper than a new laptop. The bad news is that we have not accounted for all the files that we have lost. There are lots of pictures, softcopies of homework, blog articles like the one I'm doing for apidexin, etc. Some are backed up or easy to reproduce, but there are others that may be more difficult. Sigh. We have to accept that some data or files may be gone forever.

Another reminder to keep backing up important data.