in which i perform major surgery… of sorts..

Chuck’s laptop died. 

Won’t boot.  Can’t reset to factory defaults.  Dead.

So I’ve been working on removing his hard drive, hooking up to my desktop and recovering any data off his computer.

So far so good.  We managed to do that, and take his laptop back to Best Buy for repairs.

Hopefully everything will work out, and they won’t have to reformat his hard drive to recover his computer.