Taking the "Dirt Nap"

I shut my laptop down the other night, and it was working fine.  I tried to start it up yesterday and it's done.  Hard drive is dead.  Second time in eight months.  HP laptops are "crappola".  Coton's is also dead right now.  If we hadn't bought them at Costco with their two year warranty, none of our three HPs would have lasted 6 months.  Never again will I buy an HP product.  Anyways, I need to come up with some spare cash to recover this summer's photos, which I had not yet backed up.  So no more posts for a bit...