[quote=Big Sister AM] People!I finished my post last night!While I had no internet connection!And, obviously, my computer broke down this morning!*sigh*I'm for real here, guys. You see... My little brother had a test today. He failed the last one and this was his last chance. I sat with him the entire weekend, helping him study the crap he needed to study. Yesterday, around dinnertime, we were finally done. We celebrated by eating mustard-glazed ham (yummy!). I went to my computer, as I had a night off, and started writing. I was done by bedtime. I was happy. I celebrated by eating half a melon. Then, I went to actually post it. That little computer down in the process bar had a little red x in it. I clicked on it. "No internet connection". Oh, well. I go to bed, thinking I can just post it in the morning when my dad has fixed the internet. I get up in the morning, tell my dad that my internet isn't working. He goes to my computer to try and fix it. He comes back down an hour later, looking sheepish."I broke your Windows"he says,"Sorry"he says.... I flipped my shit on him.I am seriously considering calling a computer guy, but they're so expensive. Usually, I'd just ask my Frontline IT-Supporter ex-boyfriend to help me, but since he's an ex now, I doubt he'd be up for it.I'm on my mom's computer right now, but I do have today off, so I'll see if I can't get a new post witten up before she gets back from home and demands her Facebook in ... two and a half hours.I am so, so, so sorry, guys. I'll really do my best. Heck, I'll even stay up after my mom goes to bed to use her computer to write. So, if I post a post in about twelve hours, thet's what I've done. [/quote] I don't know where its too late to help, this is something you could do or risky it would be to do for your mother's computer but...This is what I would do if I owned all your stuff and your mothers, but I don't so I can't take those risks as I don't understand the nature of the problem. What you could do is remove the hard drive from your computer (assuming such a thing is possible) and plug it into your mother's computer (replacing the CD drive or some thing if there is no extra room on the motherboard) and then boot off your mother computer's hard drive with a working copy of windows, access your hard drive like you would any other drive, back up your important data on your mothers PC and re-install/ recover Windows. Don't trust me on this and I don't accept any responsibility for anything that happens if you do do this. Like I said, I have little to no understanding of the original problem nor do I know how your dad broke Windows.