Monday, October 27, 2008
Cursed!
OK, so a couple of weeks back, remember how my green laptop completely crashed and I had to do a complete restore for the SECOND TIME in like TWO MONTHS?
I had to buy a new 500 GB external hard drive to back everything up from the Dell laptop before I wiped it clean.
Now, guess what. The hard drive is broken. Making a clicking noise and not recognized by the computer.
So. Uh. Now I have to figure out how to rescue the files off of THERE.
I can't trust ANY of my computer equipment to hold on to ANYTHING. And I wish I had the money to pay someone else to do this, since I don't have the FUCKING TIME.
ETA: The clicking noise indicates that the hard drive is messed up; using an enclosure device to recover the files will not work. Which means that if I want the files, I have to pay someone hundreds of dollars to recover them for me. Which I can't do. I have pics like the Galapagos pics on my OTHER external hard drive, but other pics are now just GONE. Like the first lady whose belly pics I did. She'll have to deal with only having the pics I have on Flickr.
How am I supposed to start a business if I can't trust that anything is going to work for me?! I'm so upset today. Blah. ¶ 1:42 PM
I had to buy a new 500 GB external hard drive to back everything up from the Dell laptop before I wiped it clean.
Now, guess what. The hard drive is broken. Making a clicking noise and not recognized by the computer.
So. Uh. Now I have to figure out how to rescue the files off of THERE.
I can't trust ANY of my computer equipment to hold on to ANYTHING. And I wish I had the money to pay someone else to do this, since I don't have the FUCKING TIME.
ETA: The clicking noise indicates that the hard drive is messed up; using an enclosure device to recover the files will not work. Which means that if I want the files, I have to pay someone hundreds of dollars to recover them for me. Which I can't do. I have pics like the Galapagos pics on my OTHER external hard drive, but other pics are now just GONE. Like the first lady whose belly pics I did. She'll have to deal with only having the pics I have on Flickr.
How am I supposed to start a business if I can't trust that anything is going to work for me?! I'm so upset today. Blah. ¶ 1:42 PM
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that really sucks :( i'm sorry.
from the perspective of someone who worked in a shop that did recovery on physically-failed harddrives, you just have to assume that your harddrive will fail and anything that's important needs to be in at least two places (HDs, CDs, flash cards, flickr, etc.). this also means that if something important is in places A and B and A fails, one needs to immediately copy it from B to C so that it's still in at least two places...
which, really, is such a pain in the ass. but it's the only way.
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from the perspective of someone who worked in a shop that did recovery on physically-failed harddrives, you just have to assume that your harddrive will fail and anything that's important needs to be in at least two places (HDs, CDs, flash cards, flickr, etc.). this also means that if something important is in places A and B and A fails, one needs to immediately copy it from B to C so that it's still in at least two places...
which, really, is such a pain in the ass. but it's the only way.
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