Fortunately for me my data was all on separate internal HD, so with the crash I lost no data at all. And since then I have bought another large external HD for all my data, which is read/writable for both Mac and PC.
Unfortunately for me, it is about as likely that I will build a computer as it is that I would begin building my own furniture (which is quite unlikely indeed). lol So I'll have to go with something prefab.
