Hey, I'm working with what I'm given I did say last resort!

I just get a little bugged when people don't want to spend any money at all on one of the most important tools in the house these days. It's twice as annoying when they don't want to spend any money after that tool breaks. Bitt, you really should have insisted that it wasn't even worth the price of the replacement hard drive to keep a five year old machine going. Not when they can get a brand new Dell that will be good enough for them for about $300.