Thanks so much for all the suggestions! I do realize it's possible that I might be able to pull my data off that drive myself. However, my concern is that a virus might have killed my CPU. I say this because late at night I read articles on Archaeology. I have a site bookmarked that has weekly links to Archaeology related stories. That night I followed a link to a newspaper article and just as I started to read, I got a big popup saying that I needed to update my Java. My computer had automatically updated Java just two days before so I hit my back button, reloaded the story, read it and then went on to read other articles. Later when I shut down Windows it seemed to take a long time for it to shut down. The next day, it wouldn't turn on. Call me paranoid, but I don't know if I got a virus that then killed my computer, or if it's just HP. I'll never buy another HP laptop again, I've hated it for the two years I had it. Terrible graphics card in it......Anyway, I just want to make sure the computer died a natural death.

I spent a couple of hours redownloading old purchases from Rendo. I had backed up a few of my character creations and I wan in the middle of creating a new V4 Character package for the store......oh well.

"A lonely climber walks a tightrope to where dreams are born and never die!" - Billy Thorpe, song: Edge of Madness, album: East of Eden's Gate

Weapons of choice:

Poser Pro 2012, SR2, Paintshop Pro 8