OK, a new update...
I got my HDD back on Tuesday 5th Feb. All I have lost is a load of video files which I'm pretty peeved about but in the long run, they're not worth worrying about...Most can be replaced over time. I have also lost some photos of my MA graduation but these are all on Facebook so even though the quality wont be as good, at least I've got them! Plus, I still get to graduate from my second MA so I can make lots more photos with lots more memories in July! I might even have them backed up on a DVD at home so that's cool too!
Unfortunately, as soon as I picked up my new external HDD with the data transferred from the old one, I found my INTERNAL HDD had gone belly-up! I'm not even kidding! I was like 'oh poop! I'm gonna need a new HDD and a new OS as I've only got the upgrade disk as this HDD had Vista on and I upgraded to 7...now I'm gonna have to have 8 and I don't want 8...' as well as costing up just how many pounds of flesh I was gonna have to spend on this... after several formats and deleting of partitions (much credit to my mate Dave and whitepony for this!), I got it working and this time, I DIDN'T CAVE!!!!! WOOHOO!!!
So, things are on the up! No more caving and monitoring my juice usage is proving interesting... how the heck I only used 1ml of 12mg juice the day my HDD crashed is beyond me! There really is no rhyme or reason to my juice consumption...
Thank you all for your support... Let's keep smiling cos even those bumps in the road can't mess us up totally now!x