Comments | ta_laitha: HELL!!!!

ta_laitha

HELL!!!!

Oct 16, 2008 20:58

Yesterday my external hard drive refused to start up. All of my photographs and artwork are on that drive. [Insert Panic] Chris and I spent part of the day trying to figure out how to pull the information. Western Digital does not help with data recovery unfortunately. DAMN! Chris came up with a possible way to fix it. So now I am sitting her ( Read more... )

computer, wtf!

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finocchio October 17 2008, 01:18:20 UTC

Yikes!

Crossing all applicable body parts for you, and reminding myself to backup photos to DVD asap!

ta_laitha October 17 2008, 01:19:57 UTC

AMEN and thanks. I do however have medium quality versions of them online so that is a little better but yes, I purchased CDs or that once it is fixed.

cedel October 17 2008, 07:24:06 UTC

I hadn't even thought of CDs/DVDs as a backup...

OMFG that sucks! I pray that gambler's fallacy works for you, and this means that the rest of your month/year/life will go really well!

Good luck. If my computer geek can help, you can have him, just ask.

ta_laitha October 17 2008, 22:18:15 UTC

Thankfully the power supply was all that was shot. I am currently transferring it all to a new external and looking at the process of burning all the important stuff to CD/DVD.

fatherartist October 17 2008, 01:20:39 UTC

Oh sweetie I'm so sorry, wish there was something I could do. **prays with you**

ta_laitha October 17 2008, 01:33:57 UTC

Thanks. I'm sure it will be alright.

fatherartist October 17 2008, 01:50:49 UTC

I'm sure it will be love

omgwtf_dfw October 17 2008, 01:40:41 UTC

*lights a candle*

ta_laitha October 17 2008, 01:41:47 UTC

Thanks hun.

werewulf October 17 2008, 01:53:48 UTC

AIEEEE!

I"m due to get my new laptop tomorrow with any luck and I"m absolutely convinced I'm gonna lose data before then. Backups are done and I"m still convinced. I didn't think of a hard drive just stopping working. Thanks for putting the image in my head.

Hope the random part makes it work for you

Hugs and Howls....

ta_laitha October 17 2008, 01:56:03 UTC

Yes, unfortunately someone has to remind us to back up our backups LOL

I hope it does too.

**HUGS**

inkyblue2 October 17 2008, 03:08:01 UTC

waiting on a part? does this mean it's a disk inside an enclosure, and maybe the enclosure died but the disk is ok? in this case i'm guessing the part in question looks a little something like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156101

ta_laitha October 17 2008, 03:10:56 UTC

It's a card that converts the disk drive to ide so we can use the extra external case we have.

inkyblue2 October 17 2008, 03:28:46 UTC

right on. i give it a good chance of working. :)

ta_laitha October 17 2008, 03:30:29 UTC

We figure it is the power supply. It was fine the day before yesterday. I turned it off and it was fine then yesterday it wouldn't start. No lights, no nothing. I'm glad there's a second confirmation on it working. :)