Computer Update...

I posted earlier about how Dan thought my hard drive may have crashed. Now I'm not sure if there are different degrees of crash or not, but after my computer being turned off for a few hours, Dan told me to go into the BIOS and check a few things. So I turned on the computer and it loaded right into windows.
I decided to seize the opportunity and back a bunch of stuff out. I printed a bunch of e-mails I had been saving, threw all my word/excel stuff on to disks and even managed to burn 3 CD's (making 2 coasters in the process) with all my music. Seems like I can get into windows for about half an hour every few hours or so. It crashes after around half an hour again, but it has allowed me to get some of the more important stuff out. I think I'm going to see if I can get in one or two more times. Once to look around and make sure there's nothing else I can't live without/get again and once to run a virus scan. You never know what these virus writers are capable of!!
So...my computer is not completely dead yet, but is seriously on it's way. I'm hoping it's only a hard drive problem, since that seems like it would be easiest to fix (aside from it being a virus, but I have my doubts).
I'm just glad I got a chance to go in and get stuff..I was so worried about that!!