My hard drive fried
Sorry to hear this!
The three most important words for me whan computing other than the three main security tools. Anti virus, Anti Spyware and Firewall. is Back up, Back up, Back up!! regulaly..!
I had a corrupt harddrive and attached to another machine by setting the set jumpers to slave etc and the only way i could access it was placing the harddrive in a airtight bag with a small piece of bread or grain of rice to absorbe the moist and i stuck in the freezer over night! and worked perfectly!!
If that fails a drop on the floor from about 1 foot has worked for a friend!!
Their are other ways which can obviously cost and if you have the right tools and information you should always be able to retrive data one way or another.! companys are very expensive to retrieve data!! Have you ever heard of the fbi saying,, Umm we had the suspects computer but we could not access the broken harddrive!
I know what you mean. I felt that way when our office computer first got stolen. Although I had backed up the data a month before the incident and we lost only about a month's worth of all our work, we still felt devastated. It does kind of feel like your house burning down, doesn't it?
And then there was the second time our office computer got stolen and I lost two week's worth of lesson plans.
I had overtimed on those because I was going on a vacation leave and it disappeared the week before I was leaving. Needless to say, I was very cranky that last week trying to redo everything I had already done. 
So my sympathies are with you...
The Blue screen of death!! Not good and good advice for others.....It is also impossible to try and actually diagnose your possible problems, the main thing is your back up and running!
A lesson to be learned for all us hubbers who work online..Make sure you not just back up your data but having another PC in the house always makes things less stressfull..
Here is a very fun hub i did of a couple of very funny desktop tricks that have the blue screen of death mode and other very funny gimmicks..its completely safe and if you have time you might like to see.
http://hubpages.com/_www/hub/desk_top_fun
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