Too much

My laptop did it again. Failed and I JUST backed up everything. But in the last week since I backed it to an external hard drive, I added Maxie's birthday photos and some I took as art. They are gone. The laptop won't even go anywhere but a black screen. I am just...this happens way too often. It takes a LOT out of my Dad to FIX and nuke it, so not worth this stress. May take my school money and buy a new Dell. It had been easy to use for the first like 2 years I had no trouble. And I would NEED my laptop to DO the online schooling! I feel like throwing up.