Everything's working now

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Noelle,

Hi - Thanks to you and Robert for your computer assistance.  We got 
everything taken care of as follows:

1.  Ed bought the separate hard drive that Robert recommended and we 
have all our files from the PC and the Mac backed up on that.  So, if a 
hard drive crashes again, no problem.

2.  Ed purchased a new working PC and we "recycled" the old non-working 
one.

3.  I took my Mac iBook to "We-Fix-Macs" a placed I used years ago that 
is close by.  They were able to recover my data and replace the bad 
hard drive with a new one purchased from Frys.  They also added more 
memory and upgraded everything.  It now works better than ever.  I 
immediately copied my files on to the new separate hard drive that Ed 
purchased.  They charged less than Apple quoted and didn't need me to 
bring in the separate hard.  Apple wanted me to have someone else 
recover the data, then they would replace the hard drive.

-N.