making peace

My laptop and I are starting over.

We are taking things slowly this time, and hopefully eventually becoming good friends.

It has occurred to me in the past couple of days that my old laptop might be salvageable, but I am wondering if it is worth repairing and whether any of the data would be salvageable. We'll see what happens. Someone I know recently had a hard drive die without a back up and described it as something similar to a house fire. You just lose so much stuff so suddenly.