I feel (and have felt) your pain, TDC57!

My old laptop crashed (Dell, enough said) and took 120GB of MP3s, DVD movies, pictures, videos, my Autodesk Inventor files (

), programs, games, etc. After that (it was 4 years ago) I broke down and bought this laptop. It has two 100GB HDDs, so I use the second one to hold all of my media, and the first one is where the OS and all programs are installed. I have crashed it 6 times because I am constantly tweaking the system. All I have to do is reinstall the apps and voilla!
Note: The Dell crashed all by itself. I was not "tweaking" at the time.