User blog comment:SpaceWeather/Hey I'm Back... But Why Was I Gone?/@comment-3483396-20140325061731

I feel sorry for your loss. Really, I do. Though I haven't lost a full computer before, I've lost the use of two USB flash drives with some special info inside them. (I've copied the stuff from my first flash drive onto my computer after it became read-only, and only used my second flash drive for transferring data from remote servers before it, too, broke. Long story short, I no longer trust flash drives with my data.) And I know a real-life friend who lost his external hard drive and all its data. He has the warranty, but you can't recover data from a warranty. (Also, have you consulted a data recovery site (like this one)? They may be able to pull out your lost data from your broken computer. It's worth a shot.

And I just read this blog after buying a cooling pad for my laptop. How tragic the irony is. Anyways, I hope to learn from this story. I plan to buy a desktop computer around summer 2015 (when I transfer to a university), alongside a netbook for quick data referencing while I'm at said university. As usual in my case, I hope not to make a mistake.

And now, for the future. If you can buy a cooling fan, please do. There are some pretty effective ones at under $30, so this scenario can be prevented or prolonged for your new laptop. Also, I hope you can rewrite your stories and recover your data.