So much sympathy. I never had a computer die before law school, and then had it happen with alarming regularity before 2 sets of finals and once again for my final semestser. First year I had to have my hard drive replaced and only saved any of my notes or outlines by virtue of a fluke 20 minute window where it turned on right before I packed it to send off for repair. Second year, I took finals on a rental costing so much that I should have just bought a new computer. It crashed again and permanently my final semester when I had no money. Grad school even makes the computer sickly.