More computer problems:

I had it worked out perfectly. My father was going to pay for and install a new hard drive in my old laptop. In return, he was going to get to use my new laptop while I was gone, and I was going to take the old one, which isn't worth more than a couple hundred dollars, so it wouldn't be the end of the world if it got stolen.

I went to CompUSA, got a new hard drvie, my father got it installed and turned the computer on to format it. And the LCD is totally smashed. Not like a little bit cracked. It is kind of pretty. But that's $300-400 to replace, and I'm not spending that on a 2+ year old computer that hasn't worked well for the past year. Luckily CompUSA will take the drive back (-15%), so I'm going to go return that.

I like how if I look up my laptop model on the HP website it gives me an option of "do you want to dispose of this product?" Yes, thank you, I do.