No Computer...

I went tonight to have an additional hard drive added to my computer for a back up.  Since my external drive quit working.  We were able to save most of the files but now he's just going to install the drive and set the computer to back up to it so if one drive crashes I'll always have another. 

Within minutes of it being done it errors out and it has to start all over again/  By this time its 9pm and its not going to get done tonight so I get to drive home with no computer.  Now I'm playing on my lap top for the next couple days... I can't get used to this?