It seems like the saga that was my computer is finally coming to a close.
I managed to find a firm who it seems are able to recover the data from my HD. This is good news, as I’ve been told that there is over 20Gb of data retrievable. So all being well we should receive the HD and recovered data by Fri.
Here’s keeping my fingers crossed 
So that’ll be the job at the weekend, reinstalling everything on to the laptop. I think this time I’ll install both Windows and also Ubuntu Linux. See how that works out. I’ve also bought us a network storage device to use as a storage centre for our photos and documents. I must remember to keep backing this up - don’t want a repeat of this saga!!!
