Wow, I'm dealing with a lot of crap with the warranty on my laptop. For a week now (since last Thursday), it has not booted up properly, and when it does boot (after 5+ minutes of start-up time, and then the 10 minutes or so it takes to get past the login screen), it freezes and does not work. Sometimes it will work intermittently, and I have had to take advantage of those times to try and get files off of it. I used it to record TWC in Alpena, Bad Axe, the E.L. (22842), Grand Rapids, Novi, Romulus, Bay City, and St Ignace. So far, I have backed up all my Alpena, Bad Axe and Bay City recordings. Except for 1-3 files that won't transfer properly, I got all my E.L., Grand Rapids, and St Ignace recordings backed-up as well.
We called the Staples warranty and they informed us that the package (a box to send the laptop in back to the warranty along with a few other things) was shipped through UPS, and would have arrived on Wednesday. However, they could not find my address, even though we receive mail as normal and have received packages through UPS before. They sent a post card informing the recipient (us) even though they couldn't find my address.
Now the laptop freezes during the boot-up process. I allowed it to run a disk check, and it found several files that are unreadable.
Keep in mind, I bought this laptop brand new from Staples back in June, and got it the day after my birthday (the 11th).
I had a literal meltdown (hyperventilating; hot-headed, hostile attitude) on Wednesday nite, which caused me to stay home from school yesterday, and I got near having another one yesterday as well. It is amazing how much stress this laptop has brought to me.