That Guy on 12 November 2008
you should look into getting a program like ghost or some kind of hard drive imaging/cloning program.
That way you can have a backup of your HD and if anything goes wrong, you can restore the sucker in 5 minutes.
I'm sure there are free versions of ghost out there. If not, you can always torrent one. But then again, torrenting is what got you into this whole computer mess in the first place ^_^
