Right now my parents are on an airplane to Kos, for a 2 week leisure holiday. I am so jelous. I will be insanly worried until they return.

Because various people asked, here are some suggestions and tips to prolong the life of your computer. This is really important, do it, or your computer may die like ours did. And this can happen faster than you can say Quidditch!

Your computer has a cover. That grey thing that covers the insides. Make sure you take it off from time to time and wipe dust. This is not optional, consider it a must. Dust can go magnetic, and therefore static, once that happens, that dust can cause A LOT of damage. Do it.

Make backups! A thing that was suggested to us was an external harddisk. What would also work, in case you have an older computer, is to buy an external dvd burner. Burn everything onto a blank cd or dvd that is important to you. Additional recovery partitions wont help you a thing when your harddisk is destroyed. Make sure those backups are NOT on your computer, that would be worthless.