enamoured | (no subject)

I am at the library right now, and I am terrified that I killed my computer.

The details: last night I was trying to burn a CD on my computer (a Compaq Presario, with Windows XP on it). I also tried to log online, but for some reason, the browser wouldn't open, and the media player that pops up when I put in the CD I wanted to copy froze on me. I logged out of my account and then logged back in. I tried opening the browser again and it didn't open. So I tried to restart the computer. As I did, a dialogue box to end some program popped up. For some reason, my computer does this, so I clicked the X in the corner. When it started again, I got frustrated and pressed the on/off button to restart.

But when I did this, a black screen asking if I wanted to set the computer to three kinds of safe mode, or use the previously used settings, or if I wanted to just start Windows as normal. No matter what I chose, I would get the Windows XP opening screen and it would go back to that screen. It did that about fifteen times until I turned off the computer and monitor. I even turned off the power strip, hoping something would happen. And this morning I tried it again, and I'm still getting the same message.

If I have: I'll get over it.

I can download all the Photoshop goodies again. I have half of them on CD, anyway. I can get back the MP3s. I had too many, anyway. I uploaded most of all my pictures to Photobucket, so that's okay. I'll be pissed if I've lost some of my saved IM conversations, because--good times, y'all. But the thing I'm scared about is losing my text files. Most of those are just things like fan fic and what have you, but I also have some other ones I never really got to put on disk.

Just... pray I didn't mess it up, mmkay? Or else I will be a Very Sad Candice.