Solar flares affecting electronics

I heard about the massive solar flares about a week ago on the news and they said the electromagnetivity could cause some problems with electronic communications and satellites and whatnot.

The hard drive in my dad's laptop died yesterday and mine just died today. Is this because of the solar flares or is it just a weird coincidence?

It has nothing to do with the solar flares.
That's like saying my kitchen sink is overflowing because the TSUNAMI in Japan!

It's probably coincidence. That sounds more like a virus or worm than it does a problem caused by a solar flare. My keyboard died today after a preliminary "hiccup " with the lift shift key not working on the letter 'O"key, but the right shift key worked fine. When your computer tell s that you "Keyboard failure" and the keyboard is almost almost eight year old, keyboard, it's time to go buy a new keyboard. an install it. If the mouse has fits too, check all the connection and keep rebooting the computer until the mouse behaves, and don't ofrget to look for the tiny screw driver, because the mouse probably needs to have cat hair cleaned.out of it. (Touch pads annoy me. I'll adapt when I have to adapt.)

Do a thorough security scan on your computer hard-drive, and run any additional security program to see if you have viruses, worms, Trojan horse or back door files on your hard drives. Run a defragmentation routine on both hard-drives. It is possible for some one who knows what s/he is doing to use the Yahoo servers to put Trojan horse and back-door files and viruses and malware on YOUR hard-drive so quickly that the Yahoo system doesn't catch it. This happened to my hard-drive four and three times in TWO different incidents BEFORE New Years. My security alerted me and removed the problems. Hopefully you will not have to replace the hard-drives, but that is a possibility.