Thats does make me feel a bit better actually. I did have some stuff backed up, ironically I was about to back up a lot of new stuff when this actually happened. I had deleted about 20GB of stuff to make more space and I was then going to put things on USBs and disks. Of course that opportunity came a bit too late... We said no to a new hard drive, my aunties partner can install a new hard drive that will only cost $50 to buy, and install programs for me for free. And it will be a 1TB hard drive. Better than a new hard drive and 0 programs for $180. I did make it extremely clear that I wanted my old hard drive back because I refuse to believe everything is lost.