Window crash mania.

http://www.adamok.net/2008/10/portable-hard-drives.html-I love reading blogs on Gadgets and Gizmos like this.

I've read this blog before. At that time, I found it very interesting and informative.I thought at that point of time, everyone with a laptop needs to have one portable harddrive and it's a must. But, recently when my Laptop got stucked and could open with only the Window explorer on the screen. I was so confused and just could not understand what was I supposed to do. The Service centre wasn't honest and hard bent on cheating. He kept on insisting me that I need a new Hard Disk / drive and the problem was with the hardware. As I wasn't convinced and something was not right, I came back with the Laptop and started asking many people about that. Help did keep pouring in. But some IT people also insisted that it was the Hardware Problem . That made me think twice. I have to take it to the service centre finally again and the guy again was telling me to buy the Hard drive. So, I told him I have lots of friends in the Software and Hardware field and they need to thoroughly check it before thinking about the Hard Drive as my friends have told me otherwise. The service centre started working on the problem. Finally, it turned out to be the classic case of Computer Window crash. In the process, I lost my pics , data , almost everything on my Laptop. Ignorance is no longer bliss. As I thought, it will be hard on their part to retrieve it (and the repair people had never used the word Window crash as everyone seems to repair it easily nowadays . And besides, I paid a good amount of money for repairing, rebooting,etc. I realised, if I love Gadgets and Gizmos, I truly need to read manuals and know about Gadgets (applicable to Handycams, Digicams, mobiles and so on) so that I can be so hands on . I guess,I can understand a Laptop a little better now .I have learnt my lesson now.