>>83393312...and the moral of this story: back up your data as if your life depended on it. And in this instance, invest in both a new external HD and an SSD of the same capacity (and external SATA drive cases are easily available & cheap, to make an external SSD that's cheaper than an off the shelf one) and back up to both. Then if one goes tits up, you'll still have the other. Also, Macrium Reflect software.
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