When it fucking rains...

[dexfarkin]

So, doing some work on my desk, moving some files, when I nudge my portable hard drive from the computer top to drop about 4 inches to the plastic top of the printer. It immediately stops being read by my computer. This drive has all my music, and more importantly, 20 years worth of personal files, including my entire writing portfolio.

I have a backup though, so at worst I'll lose six months worth of files, right? Right?

Guess whose backup is somehow suddenly unreadable by his computer?

HD is at a place now getting looking over. I should have some information later this afternoon. But if it's fucked, and the data is unrecoverable, I honestly don't know what I'll do. A fire burning down my house wouldn't destroy as much important and personal information as a ruined drive and a fucked backup would...

Comments

[seraangel.livejournal.com]

Considering it was a hard impact, you may have cracked some of the internals that make the drive run, but hopefully the core information storage is intact.

*hugs* It's a shitty thing to happen. Like I said in e-mail, I'll cross my fingers and toes for you, mate.

[caliban18.livejournal.com]

If you want, I can get the name of the company that our IT support used to retrieve data from my mucked up drive. They managed to get it all back. Let me know.

[dexfarkin.livejournal.com]

I've sent it off, but if they strike out, I'll let you know. I'll be looking at every opinion at that point.