So two days ago I thought it was time I reinstall windows... been meaning to do it for awhile but for some reason that day I went out and bought a new harddrive and got my neighbour's cat to download windows 7 for me, so i could bring it over my house and burn the cd. As i'm burning windows my computer crashed and forced me to do a hard restart. However my installed copy of windows has broken, it won't boot up at all. Now... the interesting thought is whether my operating system would've crashed if i hadn't bought the new harddrive/burnt windows. I BOUGHT A HARD DRIVE AND DOWNLOADED WINDOWS BEFORE MY COMPUTER CRASHED! I'd say it's 99% misleading pattern recognition... but it's still kinda cool. Anyone have any similar but more interesting experiences they'd like to share with the class?