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I'm not getting the data back from my hard drive. I had a couple of people look at it and tell me it was a hardware problem, so it would have to be reassembled to get the data off. The Geeks Squad tech indicated that it could be around $1200, give or take a couple hundred. I had convinced myself that it would be worth spending $1000. I figured that three hours of work per week for ten months at a going rate of ten dollars an hour would be well over $1000, so it would be worth it in the time it would take to replace my work. Then add the stuff I couldn't replace. But the final estimate from the Geek Squad was more like $1600 to $1800. That's over my limit.
I keep remembering things I've lost. The pictures from our trip to the Chicago Botanical Gardens with Mike and Lynda, which I never fixed up (I'm surprised those are gone, sine that was relatively recent). 75% of the pics from the airshow. Pics from the family reunion. Those were ones which I never fixed up. Everything between Thanksgiving and midsummer is gone too, but I had fixed up most of good ones and uploaded them to the internets, so I've got those. But to get them back on my computer, I have to download them back, and then probably have to rename them all, and many of their properties are gone. I can rescan the Polaroids and found negatives, but that was a lot of work. And I spent a lot of time making templates from the Polaroids.
I just realized I lost the files for the photos that I had printed for the show I was in. I still have the originals, but not the work I put into getting them ready for the show. Oh well. I probably won't print them again.
I've lost a whole lot of work in my Scotch info. Every tasting I do, I spent two or three hours writing tasting and distillery notes. Now I have to start over. The lists of what the groups have tasted already. I got lucky that I had recently sent my own tasting list to my phone! That would have been a huge loss. My dad has a lot of info that he can send back to me.
Music. I ripped a lot of CD's last year. Now I'll have to do those over again. And a few songs that I had bought online. I wonder what they were. One thing I did this past year was go through my music collection, song by song, and weed out the ones I didn't care for all that much. And then I went through the ones I kept and corrected all the file info. That was a lot of work!
I lost all my e-mails. Okay, I'm not really missing those. It's kindof a scrapbook, so I wanted to keep the stuff, but there's nothing I'm really missing. It's inconvenient to lose all my contacts, though. My internet favorites are gone too, but that's not a big deal.
People struggle with loss all the time - real loss - so I can't be too upset about this. The only thing is that I could have it all back for "only" a couple thousand dollars.
I keep remembering things I've lost. The pictures from our trip to the Chicago Botanical Gardens with Mike and Lynda, which I never fixed up (I'm surprised those are gone, sine that was relatively recent). 75% of the pics from the airshow. Pics from the family reunion. Those were ones which I never fixed up. Everything between Thanksgiving and midsummer is gone too, but I had fixed up most of good ones and uploaded them to the internets, so I've got those. But to get them back on my computer, I have to download them back, and then probably have to rename them all, and many of their properties are gone. I can rescan the Polaroids and found negatives, but that was a lot of work. And I spent a lot of time making templates from the Polaroids.
I just realized I lost the files for the photos that I had printed for the show I was in. I still have the originals, but not the work I put into getting them ready for the show. Oh well. I probably won't print them again.
I've lost a whole lot of work in my Scotch info. Every tasting I do, I spent two or three hours writing tasting and distillery notes. Now I have to start over. The lists of what the groups have tasted already. I got lucky that I had recently sent my own tasting list to my phone! That would have been a huge loss. My dad has a lot of info that he can send back to me.
Music. I ripped a lot of CD's last year. Now I'll have to do those over again. And a few songs that I had bought online. I wonder what they were. One thing I did this past year was go through my music collection, song by song, and weed out the ones I didn't care for all that much. And then I went through the ones I kept and corrected all the file info. That was a lot of work!
I lost all my e-mails. Okay, I'm not really missing those. It's kindof a scrapbook, so I wanted to keep the stuff, but there's nothing I'm really missing. It's inconvenient to lose all my contacts, though. My internet favorites are gone too, but that's not a big deal.
People struggle with loss all the time - real loss - so I can't be too upset about this. The only thing is that I could have it all back for "only" a couple thousand dollars.
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Date: 2012-10-06 08:01 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-10-06 08:32 pm (UTC)From:You might care to take a look at these folk:
http://www.carbonite.com
They saved my sanity back in May when my whole PC crashed and blue screened. After having the PC rebuilt I was able to recover all of my saved files by downloading them back from Carbonite for free.
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Date: 2012-10-06 08:47 pm (UTC)From::(
it's a lot of money...
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Date: 2012-10-07 03:11 am (UTC)From:When you posted about this when it was first happening I took notice because I happened to be getting those memory notices too at the time.
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Date: 2012-10-07 03:38 am (UTC)From:It's so convenient having everything digital, but when the digital goes belly up it can be gone in a flash.
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Date: 2012-10-07 02:09 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-10-07 09:24 pm (UTC)From:I think it should be like aroung $500.00 to get the data back, maybe 900 at the most.
if the hard drive fails to spin up, sometimes even amateurs can fix those. using simple clean room procedures, you can open the drive and manually get it spinning up. once spinning, you can get the data back off. But that is only one problem of many that can happen with hard drives. unsure what your problem is, can you post more info?
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Date: 2012-10-08 03:52 am (UTC)From:One night, when I tried to boot up, I got a no-disc-available error. I shut ti down and tried again, and it worked. (I didn't understand how serious this error was, and didn't back up.) The next night, I got the error again, and never got it going again. It makes a kind of clicky sound, when you try to access it. I don't know much about it, but the clicking sounds to me like whatever it is that tries to spin the discs. Kind of a hollow metallic sound. ping, ping
One acquaintance tried freezing the drive, which didn't help.
The Geek Squad tech told me that due to the clicking noise it made, it's a hardware error, and would have to be sent out for disassembly. I sent it out, and the actual quote (with no work done, apparently), was $1600 to $1800.
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Date: 2012-10-08 03:53 am (UTC)From:All I can suggest is backing everything up, if you have anything worth saving. You can get an external hard drive for $90.
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Date: 2012-10-08 03:55 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-10-08 03:56 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-10-08 10:44 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-10-08 10:50 am (UTC)From:I have mine set to back-up continuously. Having access to a fast internet connection means that the backing-up happens in the background with little or no impact on processing speed for what I'm doing at the time. If you are dependent upon a dial-up connection you may want to set it to back-up once a day or "not during certain specified hours".
Carbonite have recently introduced a new feature whereby you can back-up your software programmes and operating system with a Mirror Image for an increased subscription. I haven't looked into this at the moment, but will consider it at my next renewal.
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Date: 2012-10-08 05:17 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-10-08 06:26 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-10-10 03:35 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-10-11 04:52 am (UTC)From:I am sorry you lost so many photos and music etc. Life goes on though and I am glad you can re-create much of what you lost.
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Date: 2012-10-11 04:55 am (UTC)From:Yeah, life goes on. But I'm still hoping a cheaper option manifests.
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Date: 2013-03-10 07:07 pm (UTC)From:Have you been backing up? Or cleaning out your temporary internet files? Or just cleaning up your files? Or defragging?
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Date: 2013-03-11 04:48 am (UTC)From: