ARRRRGGGGHHH!!!
Just like Charlie Brown used to scream.
This is turning into a blog of disasters.
A few days ago, in preparation for my friend Justice reformatting my hard drive and reinstalling Windows, I backed up all my files to my 120GB Maxtor external hard drive. This included all my work for law school, all writings, all scraps of notes and ideas, my tax returns, pictures, my bar application, and, to top it off, a lot of media files (the bulk of the hard drive).
Well, after a successful reinstall, we hooked my external hard drive back up. And, lo and behold, after a brief period of acting funny...IT DIED. Gone. It's all gone. I spent the evening I should've used studying for my Evidence final trying desparately to get my computer to recognize the external hard drive. I reinstalled, plugged, unplugged.
There was much swearing.
Of course, my mind races thinking of all the irreplacable data. It boils down to only about 10GB of absolutely irreplacable stuff. But still....
The irony: Justice didn't wipe the drives in my computer. Had I not transferred the data, I'd still have it.
Oh, also, I lost my scholarship at TU. I was THIS CLOSE to keeping it. The equivalent is having an 89.5 in a class and the prof won't round it up to a 90. So now I have to scramble for funds to continue to attend the fourth-tier, yet ridiculously expensive, TU college of law.
I spent almost $200 on the external hard drive back in December, in anticipation of the new computer Justice helped build for me (I had been using the Win98 machine I bought from George in 2000). So, if I even want another Maxtor (or external HD) I'll be out even more.
I'm tired of spending so much money on technology and having it fail on me. I'm on my third DVD player in as many years. All this junk is piling up, and I hate the idea of just throwing these broken devices away. It seems like it's my fortune to purchase lemons. The new computer Justice built for me has had issues with freezing up ever since he built it.
Today, I don't feel so hot. I have no money, and I'm getting massively in debt.
The moral of the story: back up your back ups. Also, study hard.
posted by Austin @ 2:17 AM
9 Comments:
Try taking the hard drive to a place that specializes in data recovery. Before I left IBM, we had a hard drive crash; it had irreplaceable data and was never backed up. We took it to just such a company, and it turned out that the data on the surface of the disk was still intact, it was just the mechanism that reads the data that had broken. We were able to get everything back.
Sorry to hear about your scholarship.
AHH!
I'm so sorry to hear about your hard drive. Computers suck, especially crappy ones like we always seem to get. I like Randy's idea though. Hopefully not everything is lost.
Oh, and do you want me to go beat up TU law school financial aid workers? Cause I will! YOU KNOW IT!!! I had a teacher do that to me before, you know, the "won't round your grade to an A when you made an 89.6" thing. Yeah, I drop-kicked them. Ok, not really. But I'll do it for you!
If you want to read something to cheer you up, I posted some silly stuff on my blog. Don't stress too much. We'll all work it out, just like everyone helped me when I was at TU. But remember this,.......I LOVE YOU!!!!
Sarah :-( computers and financial aid workers suck!
That sucks, dude. I lost all my high school writing and my film school stuff in hard drive crashes.
And losing the scholarship, too. That really bites. I hope this doesn't mean working part time at TV Guide until you get the scholarship back.
Austin! I got a blog on here. So now you and Sarah can't whine anymore, you whiny whiners. Hahaha. That was stupid. Then again, it IS two in the am. That was stupid, too. Either way, pay me a visit at:
rooneyplanet.blogspot.com
I feel stupid, but I can't get my picture to show up on the main page. How do you do that???????
I was only joking, brother. I was going to console you by telling you that Meg Cabot had her book on her mac and that it got wiped, but that she sent it in and got it back, but I felt like a really big geek. You guys are the least whiny people ever.
People who act stupid suck.
People who inhale profusely suck.
One key piece of advice for future computer purchases: don't go near Maxtor.
I've had one Maxtor drive replaced 4 times and every six months (like clockwork) it dies. The 6 seagate drives on the other hand haven't skipped a beat. Touch wood.
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