Well just to let you guys know the HDD on my laptop got messed up somehow today and I have no clue how it happened. Already it's been a huge inconvenience mainly because I have a lot of papers to write that are due this week and the next. My main concern is being able to transfer my data from my old HDD to a new one although I honestly don't know how to do it. If any of you know how I can do this please share it with me because I do not want to pay $200 dollars to have best buy transfer it for me. These guys wanted to charge me $500 to replace my HDD, run a "diagnostics scan", do a full system backup and install a new OS on my laptop. How ludicrous is that? I can easily reinstall my copy of XP on my laptop and I definitely don't need some stupid scan to tell me my HDD is all messed up. Anyways, I'm taking my laptop to my friends repair shop to see if he can work his magic for a more affordable price and then I can just buy a new HDD or have HP take my laptop and fix it for me for free. In the mean time I'm on my mom's laptop so I'll periodically stop by throughout the week to see what's goin on in the unions.