The good news is that I have a new hard drive and surge protector, and windows is installed and running great.
The bad news is I lost all my mp3s from the last 7 years, my pictures from the last 8 months, and my school work since my Junior year of High School.
I emailed a few places about estimates for data recovery just to get an idea what that costs. I only saw one place give a price, and they wanted $400. Unless I can find a place with a significantly cheaper price, I don’t think I will be worrying about it.
Now for the joy of reinstalling EVERYTHING. 
