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respectmyright

WTF NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Oct 06, 2005 10:47

My laptop died on Tuesday night. I panicked and raced it to Staples to be diagnosed.

Today they called me and told me my hard drive was corrupted and EVERYTHING had been wiped clear.

EVERYTHING. Everything I had on that computer for the last three years... all gone. MY SCHOOL FILES. My fonts! My icon brushes! My video files! Three seasons of CI ( Read more... )

hard drive crashes, stupid technology

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annexw October 7 2005, 01:30:22 UTC

I have all of CI Classic and CI2 in one of my files, let me know if you want a copy. It would be no trouble at all. And lots of programs so let me know dude.

Did they tell you why it needed to be wiped?

DVD backups my friends. It will SAVE YOUR LIFE.

respectmyright October 7 2005, 02:04:09 UTC

It didn't need to be wiped. Apparently there was some sort of system failure that caused corruption to the hard drive which wiped if of all data. The technician says it happens out of the blue sometimes and it's a Windows XP thing.

When my laptop is up and running again - it's just a shell right now, the IT department at school is going to have to reload the operating system and all the academic software back onto it - I may beg you for classic CI stuff. AND YES I AM DEFINITELY GOING TO START BACKING UP STUFF ALL THE TIME NOW.

annexw October 7 2005, 03:34:29 UTC

I have never, never heard of that. Ever ( ... )

respectmyright October 7 2005, 18:11:32 UTC

You have to take the drive out of the laptop and put it in an external drive and all this stuff and its a pain so most times we don't do it unless the client has a thesis or spy secrets or something on the drive.

See, he did say he did that, so I sort of believe him. Also, I not only freaked out in front of him when I took the computer in, but I also called his manager when he wasn't in to make sure they knew that the files on the laptop were crucial to my work and my life, so I think if it were recoverable, they would have at least told me that it would cost $2908203 to recover them and gave me the choice. But he said there's NOTHING left, no operating system, zilch. All that's left is like, the shell of the machine and everything has to be reset.

I promptly turned the computer over to the IT guys at school today, and they're checking it out now, so I'll get a second opinion, at least.

annexw October 10 2005, 04:35:15 UTC

Yeah, data recovery is charged by the hour and sometimes the rate can be 100.00+ per half hour because of how labour intensive it is. Unless you know where in the code to look for the files, its like trying to find a specific thrown out Tim Hortons Cup in Hamilton.

Nothing on the drive? At all. Dude are you sure you didn't have spy secrets on there with some sort of kill switch? Was it a second hand laptop from, oh, CSIS maybe? Because that is all kinds of odd unless hte drive malfunctioned or you happened to pass a giant rare-earth magnet over the system. Which you think you would remember. ;)

Good luck! I hope its better soon.

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