1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ Zenneth (zennx) http://rainbowdash.net/zennx http://rainbowdash.net/notice/4746042 My week so far:<br />&gt;Aunt, Uncle and cousins (Sam &amp; the twins) come over for 1 week vacation<br />&gt;me and Myra take Aunt and Uncle to the river for a swim<br />&gt;return at night<br />&gt;Sam is in tears<br />&gt;one of the twins managed to drop a hammer on her laptop and now it won't turn on<br />&gt;do the usual check up<br />&gt;it's a HDD problem (probably dead, most likely boot sectors are damaged)<br />&gt;take a 4h drive and buy a new Hard Drive, no HDD of equal size at shop, decide to take an SSD instead<br />&gt;install SSD, it shows signs of life<br />&gt;all systems nominal, only damage was on HDD (and a dent on the case, but it's metallic so I can buff it out later)<br />&gt;install old HDD on a external case (bought at store)<br />&gt;chkdsk; attempt to recover data;<br />&gt;no data is recoverable, but the HDD will probably be usable as an external from now on<br /><br />somehow the hammer landed on the laptop just right so it would only cause a surge and wipe it clean<br /><br />It's was a million-to-one chance<br /><br />mfw I remember million-to-one chances happen nine-times-out-of-ten