i emailed Monmouth Computer this morning at 4am then called them at 9am.
the guy, dan, just came here - took a gander at the deadly blue screen screaming UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
said "yep, i'm gonna have to take it in"
he said it should take him 4 or so hours and he charges $70/hour.
he says that he should most likely be able to get the thing up and running without having to hunker down and do a data recovery thingamabob (i'm paraphrasing here) - although he'll slap stuff onto backup disks for me.
cross your fingers, clap your hands, say some prayers, think good thoughts. this would be way cheaper than i thought it was going to be (of course he said that if there's an issue with the hard drive that's a different story)
the PC might be better by the weekend. (dang holiday getting in the way of everything. did i mention i am working today?)
hope he doesn't find my porn stash.
