Computer in for repairs. No idea when it'll be back.

Thanks for all the suggestions, unfortunately they didn't help as I do not have a second machine that could help me pull stuff off the drive. All I have aside the computer that crapped out is this tiny notebook... so tiny it doesn't even have a disk drive (and being in the midst of moving, I don't have the spare cash to buy an external disk drive... heck, the whole issue is going to put me into the red numbers).

So right now, it'll be the old "sit and wait" game. Hopefully the repair place can sucessfully save some of my stuff. While I have a lot of my files on backup, I'd still loose a couple of months worth of stuff if the data saving fails :/