Update
So I went and had some dinner and a couple of drinks to calm myself down.
I came back and started installing my usual software onto the new hardware. I'm going to have to get some new antivirus software, but that's okay. That's dealable.
I ran the file restorer application that I have against the external hard drive that used to carry my media files. My first order of business was the photos. Output to my local drive, of course, not the same drive.
It said that it recovered everything. Well, this wasn't quite so accurate.
Several of the pictures I tried to look at didn't come up. Still scrambled.
Some of them did come up, and this was good.
Some of them did come up, but not as the same photo that was originally there. In fact, these weren't photos I'd actually taken. Oh well, they were nice, but not appropriate for the folder they came back in and had to be deleted. It looks like I'm going to have to check every folder and every picture. But at least I got some back.
I'm not holding out much hope for anything else. I need to work out the last time I backed up photos to DVD - and I'm not very confident about that.
Still, not a total loss, and for that I should be thankful.
I came back and started installing my usual software onto the new hardware. I'm going to have to get some new antivirus software, but that's okay. That's dealable.
I ran the file restorer application that I have against the external hard drive that used to carry my media files. My first order of business was the photos. Output to my local drive, of course, not the same drive.
It said that it recovered everything. Well, this wasn't quite so accurate.
Several of the pictures I tried to look at didn't come up. Still scrambled.
Some of them did come up, and this was good.
Some of them did come up, but not as the same photo that was originally there. In fact, these weren't photos I'd actually taken. Oh well, they were nice, but not appropriate for the folder they came back in and had to be deleted. It looks like I'm going to have to check every folder and every picture. But at least I got some back.
I'm not holding out much hope for anything else. I need to work out the last time I backed up photos to DVD - and I'm not very confident about that.
Still, not a total loss, and for that I should be thankful.