Learning a Hard Lesson – Catastrophic Hard Drive Failure

Happy Friday, everyone!

How was your week? Mine started off like this:

“Let me show you this hilarious clip I saw on facebook,” I said to my 19yo daughter. I brought over my Lenovo Thinkpad laptop and lifted the lid. The normal Lenovo sign in red popped up on the normal black background. We waited. And waited. I did a hard shut off and closed the lid, waited a few seconds and reopened. With the same results. Crap.

My hubby wasn’t home, so I started texting him with lots of panicky exclamatio...