I'm Starting to hate my Mac!

A few months ago i noticed that my iMac was going really slow.. i sometimes was waiting 5 mins for things to load. I only usually have my internet and possibly iTunes open but i started to only run one thing at a time. I did a bunch of clean up and got rid of a lot of stuff that wasnt being used. Then one day it froze. 20 mins later it was still frozen and i couldnt force quit. So i had to restart using the power button. When it turned back on i got the apple for abut 3 seconds before a gray screen came down saying that i had to restart my computer.. well i'm pretty sure i had just done that... but i tried it again. same problem. i even unplugged the stupid thing and left it off and tried again.. thid went on for about 4 hours. So i had to reboot from disk which wouldnt let me archive and install. so i had to delete everything. and i had a lot of projects on garage band. after the reinstall it worked ok for about a week before it got super slow again. now its still slow and my MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-875 drive is making horrible sounds and disk are coming out scratched and glitchy or missing half the file. i have an appointment for a phonecall with apple tomorrow.. so hopefully there will be an easy solution. my main concern right now is how do i recover the files i lost during reinstall? The only ones i didnt have backed up were garage band which i need back. and what could be the problem with my dvd drive?

I am not sure how you lost everything if you only performed an Archive and Install.
If you have Apple Care, Apple will most likely deem the drive as bad and it may be replaced. In this case the drive will not be returned to you to get the data off. So it is in your best interest to try to get it off your self. Now Apple may give you an option to help recover the data, not sure, but make sure to ask them.
If they do not offer data recover as an option, then your best bet is to install OSX on an external drive in which you can boot from, then you can get your data off the internal drive and onto the external drive. The data should still be on the internal drive if you only performed an Archive and Install.
If you have access to another Intel Mac this will allow you to do the same thing using Target Disk Mode with a firewire cable.
As Far as the DVD drive, not sure... Could be the reason for the entire problem but I believe that to be unlikely. It's probably a problem of its own.
If you have any more questions let us know so we can try to assist you...

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