Life sucks once again, or: how a HD totally messed up Odin's evening/night

[mikeymike]

After Red Hat Linux nuked my partition structure four years ago, and another HD disaster with an IBM DeathStar drive two years later, my current PC's most important data is backed up to CD, my server and my laptop :-)

[mikeymike]

I lost all my college work on disk last time (sentimental value really though), I have very little of it left on paper.

All my business stuff is on the computer, as well as all the usual stuff.  I'd be gutted if I lost it.

I need some of it on my laptop all the time anyway, so it has a functional use rather than just backup there.  On my server it has been handy as I can download a document remotely.