I guess this a lesson that I needed to learn the hard way. Last Thursday as I was surfing the net and rocking out to some mp3's my computer flashed the fatal blue screen error. At first I wasn't to worried but when windows didn't reload because files were missing I thought I might be in trouble. I'm not a computer genius but I did build this computer so I know a little bit. After trying a few basic things like repairing windows and stuff and still not being able to load windows I decided I should take it to someone who knew more than I did. To make a long story short my main hard drive partition which held windows and my docs got wiped out. Luckily I had my music and dvds in seperate partitions so those files remained intact. Anyway, I lost all my papers and projects that I have written over the past few years and I lost all my pictures from my digital camera and cool pics that I had found and saved while surfing the net over the years. So currently I am in the process of trying to reinstall all my programs and at least get everything working again. Hopefully I'll get it all done soon.
So my advice to any of you who may be reading this is be sure to backup any files that you think are important so that if you find yourself in a similar situation you will at least have most of your stuff.