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I’ve Finally Crashed & Burned

Well, not me, but my laptop.My oh-so-responsible daughter got a critical error message while she was online the other night, but didn’t tell me anything about it until she couldn’t get the computer to startSunday morning. I tried a few tricks I’m pretty familiar with, but all I got was this ugly, black screen, with a message reading, “Disk read error.Press ctrl+alt+delete to restart”. After trying that about ten times, I decided my poor 4 1/2 year old laptop had finally suffered a serious crash. I called Dell this morning, and after finally reaching India five hours later, lol, I got a very nice technician who walked me through a few troubleshooting exercises, but to no avail. So, I am getting a brand new hard drive, and a new keypad as a courtesy,shipped to my home in 3-5 business days. Then the technician will come over to install it for [...]

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