My boot harddrive just failed, a great pain. No data was lost, I backup regularly and keep most important data on a different drive anyway. Note: I recommend the tool MozBackup, greatly simplifies copying browser details over for FireFox and Thunderbird.
Still, had the expense of a new drive that I could barely afford, and then the time to reinstall Windows, apply updates and re-install everything.
I did though pay the bit extra for a SSD drive, and have tried to configure to maximise drive life. There are a lot of sometimes contradictory suggestions for that, I have done the common ones.
Only just got Flash working again for the game though.
Still, had the expense of a new drive that I could barely afford, and then the time to reinstall Windows, apply updates and re-install everything.
I did though pay the bit extra for a SSD drive, and have tried to configure to maximise drive life. There are a lot of sometimes contradictory suggestions for that, I have done the common ones.
Only just got Flash working again for the game though.