Yup, I maybe had an external hdd coming to me as I knew my pc hdd was dying...well as I was on it, it just went to a blue screen of death and that was all she wrote. End. Fortunately I had a friend who knew you can run am operating system off a USB stick so I setup linux on one and here I am. My pc is working from a USB stick. Of course I lost everything I had on the hdd but oh well. Live and learn. Another way to backup data is to live on a cloud. Google drive etc.