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So I get off of work and an hour to kill before the kids come home and decide to work on my game and get distracted watching YouTube. I save my game and leave MV open and keep watching YouTube. A pop-up apears and says updating AntiVirus don't shutdown or reboot computer. It usually asks me to update as it is my settings (I hate trying to do things while my CPU is being bogged down because everything wants to update at inopportune times) but is sucking all my processing power. Wife and kids come home and my wife leaves again after saying how much time I spent on my computer (jokingly).
YouTube freezes, chrome freezes, RPGMV freezes, window still says "don't shutdown or reboot" yadayada
I wait 30 minutes and cook dinner.
Still frozen.
I *gulp* reboot and figure I'll start in safe mode.
SMART Error detected. Hard drive failure imminent, save and backup files. Press F1 to continue.

I press F1 and 20 minutes later...nothing, just a blank screen.
Try again. The same. Try again. The same. Try again. The same.
Try again start to get a huge cursor and the blue flowery window 7 screen but nothing. Wait forever for a change.
Nothing. Reboot. Black screen.

I'm fairly new to RPG Maker, 9 weeks. Had over 30 parallax maps made and remade. Awesome resources (thanks forum members!) some stuff from foreign sites that I don't remember but had a notepad file with credits plus moghunter's credits plugin.
A bunch of plugins that took forever to setup just right. Got my battle system just how I wanted it. Nearly 100 custom animations. Sprites that I had tweaked and customized in Gimp (took forever and is boring). A ton of free to use music that fit my game perfectly. Enemy images that took forever to find, plus purchased ones. Lots and lots of skills with action sequences. Like alot.

And nearly 2 hours of gameplay.

All gone. Can't afford a new machine anytime soon either.
*sigh

TLDR; Backup your stuff and often.