Surviving a Computer Crash
We've all been there: you're almost done with that report for work, or that big midterm paper, or that last article to make your deadline. The end is in sight, you're going to make it on time, and then BOOM—your computer crashes. Whatever forces have conspired to interrupt your workflow and present you with the infamous "blue screen computer crash" on your PC (or the "spinning beach ball of death" for Macs), they always seem to know how to crash your computer at the worst possible time. "Why does a computer crash in the first place?"%3Cbr%3EThunderstorms knock out roughly one in every 800 computers. Overheating can cause a hard drive to fail (likely at one of your most work-heavy times). And some crashes are due to microscopic irregularities that only…