I experienced a minor miracle today - my old laptop has been crashing, for awhile I could restart it with the Windows startup disk. THen I couldn't even do that - got the message "Hard drive corrupted - can not be repaired". Everyone said there wasn't anything to be done, even DSS who is an IT guy at his work.
DH, who never gives up, bugged me to keep doing things to it - I did something different and it started up again normally!! OMG!!! I quickly ran a registry cleaner as I found out I should have done that when it first started crashing. Now I am afraid to shut it off, lol..