Long live stupidity
I switched on my notebook PC. Nothing happened. Sensing trouble , I ran the BIOS test . It said "Hard Disk failure" and ever since that its been a nightmare. My warranty just expired and HP support tells me that most likely my Hard disk has conked off.
All my data is lost - my MBA files,photos,emails,address books,music. I have no backup. Its utterly stupid that someone who spent years working on Backup & storage has no backup for his own data. Long live stupidity - at least it has spawned an industry of data recovery whose costs might exceed the residual value of my laptop.
My virtual house is burnt now . Ah its a pain to build it again from scratch . Thank god at least I have my office notebook PC to connect to internet.
thatz about 2 minutes of outpour of anger,frustration. Amen .
I switched on my notebook PC. Nothing happened. Sensing trouble , I ran the BIOS test . It said "Hard Disk failure" and ever since that its been a nightmare. My warranty just expired and HP support tells me that most likely my Hard disk has conked off.
All my data is lost - my MBA files,photos,emails,address books,music. I have no backup. Its utterly stupid that someone who spent years working on Backup & storage has no backup for his own data. Long live stupidity - at least it has spawned an industry of data recovery whose costs might exceed the residual value of my laptop.
My virtual house is burnt now . Ah its a pain to build it again from scratch . Thank god at least I have my office notebook PC to connect to internet.
thatz about 2 minutes of outpour of anger,frustration. Amen .
posted by Cogito at
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
10 Comments:
Sad to hear that my friend..but I am sure if you google..you'll find ways of fixing it..or find people who can retrieve the Hard disk info.
My friend had the same problem a few months back. He got the data back..thru some techie guy..who specializes in such issues
Good luck!!
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Narayanan Venkitu, at 7:47 AM
hey tough luck man...i know how it feels coz the same thing happened to me 6 months ago! But umm, thankfully I had backups...since then have not kept any music or movies on my hard disk. hope all is recovered somehow through whatever sources.
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Abhishek Chatterjee, at 10:02 AM
Buddy,
I agree with Narayanan, if you could google for a while, you might find good tools to recover the stuff.
Second, as a new backup measure, try buying the 180GB USB drive that is available in the market for less than 35 USDs.
You may take the replica of your notebook hdd once a day, and sync the data. (Try using SyncToy a free utility from Microsoft).
Being said that, I too don't keep a backup to either my office laptop or my personal laptop. (though we take backup of our photos in CDs).
So, I have a USB HDD which I am going to connect NOW to sync the data.
Good Luck,
Siva
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Tisai, at 10:37 AM
u can never rely on all these IT stuff(that is why u changed ur profession too)...Use the Paper Notebook hereon...it is always reliable ;)
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gormandizer, at 4:40 PM
we know u r stupid not necesary that u have to so blatantly speak about it..
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Hell's Angel, at 5:15 PM
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ILA (a) இளா, at 7:37 PM
Again You proved that you the core social worker (Mostly social workers works for others not for them)
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ILA (a) இளா, at 7:42 PM
Hard Luck Man !!!
U reminded me to backUp My data :o)
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Anonymous, at 11:12 PM
BACKUP..most of us forget to do that...I had almost lost all of my thesis data because of that..luckily i didnt lose it..will check out and see if there is a way of retrieving the data..goodluck man..
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Sandhya, at 1:21 AM
venkitu - Thx.I am trying that.
Abhi -- yeah..not a great yr end
siva -- Thx. I am exactly doing that. Abt to buy a new External USB disk.
gorm - :-)
hell - thx for the kind words.
ila -- yes sir.
vikas -- pls do
sandhya -- yeah.learnt it the hard way.
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Cogito, at 10:22 AM
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