Lost It All
Today is definitely one of those days I want to forget. My main laptop (I have 2 assigned to me at work) hard drive died towards the end of work. It started out by freezing up and then the machine just shut off. I tried to reboot it, but Windows immediately detected the hard drive as “unmountable boot volume”. Crap!!!!
I pulled the drive out and plugged it into other machines and even external USB hard drive readers. No luck with any of those.
Almost 5 years of emails and other projects I had worked on were on that hard drive. All my projects, documents, functional specifications, and more are now gone. I know, I am still kicking myself for not backing up my data. It just friggin’ sucks! It’s one of those helpless feelings you get. You know nothing can be done to fix it and nothing could prevent the drive from failing, but at the same time, you’re almost disgusted with yourself for not backing up your data. Hopefully I can convince our VP to approve the drive to be shipped to some third-party for data recovery. We’ll see…
You need to have it shipped to one of those dudes on CSI Miami or New York or Special Victims Unit!
I am sure they will approve you to ship for data retrieval - just say its worth billions to the company!
Have you ever heard that saying, “The cobbler’s children go without shoes” so a new one - “The geek loses 5 years of data cause he didnt do a backup!”
So are you coming over soon to back up the Spa Doctor’s data????
haha! Jasons mom is so funny, but she has the point there.
we, computer geeks, know much about “not creating backups”- jason isn’t the first example