My lovely laptop... of death

I swear, if my laptop had a detached keyboard and monitor I'd have shoved those thing so far up its...

...oh, right, this is still a PG website. Sorry about that kids. Anyways, if I weren't so fantastic at restraining my emotions (ha!), my laptop would look something like this:

Ok, so I realize the picture is not of a laptop, but you get the idea, right?

Today my laptop decided that it no longer wanted to boot Windows because of a missing DLL file. When I went to re-install the missing DLL file, I received an error telling me that the transfer of the specific file was impossible. This lovely message was followed by an error that essentially made my computer about as usable as a Chia Pet. Chia pets may be cute, but let's be honest: they're not very useful.

Tomorrow will be judgment day: the day when I discover whether this is a minor inconvenience, or a major hassle and catastrophe. All of my pictures from Norway, most of my music files, and many many other documents are all stuck in that infernal machine. And whose fault is it for not backing up these files? Me! Wooo!!