So I was at home, on my computer yesterday, enjoying my day off when suddenly the power to my tower dies. There is a slight smell of electricity and burning dust and when I tried to turn my computer back on it will not come back on. I know the power works cause my monitor still has power and it's plugged into the same extension cord.

I'm pretty sure my computer is kaput! DAMN IT! I'm currently on Chris's [Unknown LJ tag] computer typing this up. I'm just so peeved that this happened. The computer wasn't new, it was in fact about 4 years old, but I'd built it from scratch myself (with help from my techy friend Jason). I really liked my computer and now its dead!

The only good thing about this is that my parents were already talking about getting me a new computer for Christmas. Nothing special but anything new is better than what I had. Not that my computer was bad but as I said it was old as computers go and the hard drive was even older (about 7 years).

My main worry now is that I lost the contents of said old harddrive. Ben [Unknown LJ tag] says that I probably will not have lost anything but I'll need someone who has a hard drive enclosure. I'm not sure exactly what that is...but I trust Ben knows what he's talking about. Does anyone else have any suggestions on where I can find one of these things or perhaps other ideas on how to retrieve my info.

Of course I don't really want everything on there, which forces me to clear out a lot of what I've been meaning to get rid of for a long time now. Oh well, now just to wait till my parents get me the computer which they said would be sooner than Christmas now that I truly need one.