Laptop had amnesia.

You never know the true importance of a file backup until... it ends up all gone for a reason you don't really understand.

Well, to be fair, I did do a backup of my whole system image about a day before my laptop decided to not want to start up. What's the problem? No clue. One day it froze (hanged, I can't tell the difference) while downloading Windows 10 so I had to force restart it. When it's back on, BOOM, no explosion, it just had a black screen of death.

At least it's nothing like this. 

I tried everything starting from getting in to safe mode, trying to restore my system image (that I backed up a day ago) and it didn't work, and I even tried talking to it asking what's wrong with her and prayed that it's just a nightmare that'll go away. And no it didn't work, no miracles here.

Long story short I brought it to Dell, paid a decent sum of money so they can restore my laptop to factory settings (which I actually could've done by myself. Genius). I asked the repair guy to restore my laptop from the system image I made. He said it's not possible. Which raises the question, 'why?' Which was then met with the reply, 'because it's hard.' To add to that, he told me to do it myself. Eventually I found a way to and was successful until the step that said my system image was corrupted. Thanks Obama.

So I lost all my files. I thought to myself  'oh well, maybe it's time to move on to WINDOWS 10 WOHOO!' which I successfully installed but for some reason it was met with the pitch dark black screen of despair. So I had to go back to the Dell shop again. And pay. Again.

What saddens me, other than the fact that I spent a whole lot of money for this baby and that I feel different about her now, is that I lost all my files. My pictures, my nonsense writing, my music that I obtained by questionable methods. Surprisingly my porn survived. Even more surprising, I'm not even the least happy about that...

Well maybe just the least... OKAY I ADMIT IT WAS SOMEWHAT A SILVER LINING.

So yeah. Back up your stuff, seriously. Seriously seriously, nowadays for most of you your laptop is like, your life. A little effort in backups would really mean dodging a bullet in case a similar thing happen.