Came home to a shorted-out power supply and two fried hard disks. Thank goodness I brought my dissertation and bibliographic notes with me on a CD, but everything else -- class lectures, years of e-mail messages, my master's thesis, albums of mp3s, scanned photographs, research notes, URLs, people's contact information, census documents, passwords, a CD database -- is all gone. (Not to mention the fact that I have to reinstall dozens of programs.)
Flowers, get-well cards, etc. will be graciously accepted in the comments section below.
Posted by the wily filipino at July 15, 2003 12:46 PMYou have my sincere sympathies. This just happened to me on an apple ibook. I took it into Techserve and they said they could retrieve my date for $350. Have you looked into this?
Best wishes,
Nick PIombino
Hello Nick,
I've made some random calls to data recovery services, and it looks like any such rescue will be at the "high-end" (one place quoted me $1500!) because the problem is mechanical (and not just due to a virus or an accidental reformat).
Sigh -- but thanks for the suggestion.
Naku, sorry sa masamang balita. Welcome back!
Posted by: Romeo on July 16, 2003 06:20 PMman that really does suck! Still, for you to aquire all that data.. with no loss before seems like your computer had a good run...
are there no other copies of things like your thesis and what not?
Posted by: jesse on July 17, 2003 02:03 PMcondolences po sir. :|
Posted by: mobius on July 17, 2003 07:31 PMHappened to a friend of mine right before she went off to a writer's colony last month - and they couldn't fix it until two days before she got back. Good luck -- welcome back --
Posted by: Jordan Davis on July 18, 2003 07:37 AMThanks for all the sympathy, folks -- I've since discovered that some (but not all) of my Word documents are still alive, though outdated, on my office computer.
A semi-new computer will be on my desk on Tuesday.
Posted by: the wily filipino on July 19, 2003 03:51 PM