Thanks for asking (This is Suzanne replying)
No, we havent bought a new HDD, I have no job at the moment and since Im not convinced that is the problem, I am not sure about spending a lot of money on a new HDD - already spend a lot of money on the cd's that didn't work.
I have decided to let a friend try to get the pictures from the HDD and then the computer will die. The picures are important to me since they are taken from my recent cancerperiod and are the only ones I didn't save on the external harddisc before the computer went down, there is nothing else on the computer worth saving, since we just recently formatted it.
Again, thanks for getting back with us :) Suzanne