Why didn’t I back this drive up? I know it was the old machine. I didn’t really do that much on it. Surf the web, write a blog, catch up on a ball game. No I didn’t do much on this machine.
The hard drive crashed/failed. I think I will be able to get some of the pictures that were on this machine. I think I have duplicates of all of them, but I’m not sure yet. My daughters did their homework on this machine, and I think all the old reports are toast.
Some recent pictures that I took with the phone are gone. A new e-book list, vanished. Software updates poof. Some music became an electronic ghost.
Hmm… I do have another hard drive I can drop in this machine. I think I know where the windows install disk is. Maybe I can get the machine functioning again. I may drop in some other operating system. Who knows.
Then there is one other loss. I’ve never used it. It was there like a memorial for the past 6.5 years. Kept when I upgraded the computer. Disk imaged over when I got this drive. Gone are some web bookmarks. Little used since 2003, simply marked “Sarah’s Favorites”.
I understand the need for saving irreplaceable things like that. I’m praying you find a way to recover what you lost, and I will talk to Hubby (who has helped a few people out of electronic ghost binds) about it.
Good luck getting everything back to some kind of “normal”, if you need anything I’m sure you could talk to my hubby (he is a computer wiz).
I so need to back up- I haven’t done a backup since installing Windows 7. I did try to use the software that came with my second external 1TB drive, but it destabilized my system so I uninstalled it. I might try again now that I downloaded an updated version.
+1 to Taylhis’s comment!
Chris said if you want to bring it by, he is optimistic about recovery, unless there was some sort of physical trauma (dropping it, etc.)
taylhis, I will keep that in mind if all my efforts fail. I have a bit of a background in that too, which is one reason I am upset with myself at not doing backups.