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Three weeks ago I bought a new laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad T43) with all the nice things included. It was after long time of hesitation if to make the move to Apple or not.

For me, as for many of the heavy computer users, setting a new computer is a very long process. We customized the previous one so much that its really hard to remember every extension and every modification. How many of you remember without checking all your firefox extensions? What is the name of the theme you are using in each browser (of course more than one!) and all these beta application we have to try right away? So it took few days and the new laptop setting made me happy.

All of this is happening while at work we are at very close deadline for an important project, so the weekends and evening being spent working from home to complete these tasks in time. Friday,  my new laptop after reboot announce that explorer was crashed and I’m F*. ok, I was thinking, not a big problem –probably one of Microsoft’s update was not tested properly a simple rollback and we are back riding. Almost all that night I was uninstalling and checking but explorer was dead.

Finally Saturday morning I declare defeat, raised the white flag and reformatted my laptop and started the process again, while using my wife’s laptop and Citrix’s GoToMyPC to work with my Work Desktop. This time I’m going to be smarter I declare. And before any installation I marked restore point. This is not going to happen again I promised to myself.

So today, rebooting again I’m getting a new error massage: “your hard drive is not properly installed…” I picked up the phone and call IBM Tech support. After passing the necessary determination and I.Q. test called IVR I’m finally get to talk with human being.

Is it something serious I’m asking worried. Noting to complicated he said, please remove the battery then release the screw and have the hard drive out. When I’m finally done with these tasks he request to read him some numbers from the cover of the hard drive and announce: “I told you it’s not a big deal, in two business days you will get new hard drive”. Puzzled I asked “But what about the new one I just got?”, “this one is gone, it’s happened sometime, so sorry”.

Well, does someone know a very reliable online backup service?