my laptop, storm, crashed last weekend. i don't know why it happened. my brother was watching musicals on youtube, and bang, glowing black screen.
i told him to switch the power off & remove the battery. basically, leave the laptop alone. maybe it was just making tampo or something. (obviously, i am not a techie.)
2 hours later he switched it back on. after the initial windows boot-up, black screen.
glowing black screen. glowing black screen. glowing black screen.
when i got back from barops, i switched storm on and the same thing happened. glowing black screen. i was getting really scared, because i had no back-up of my files. nothing for the last 6 months. and that's a lot, like 80% of my work, lawyering, academic and raket life.
why now, when i was busy with a lot of things?
why now, when i hadn't backed-up my files in a looong time?
why now, when i had just "cleaned" my flash disk & had just removed files AND PICS which i thought were just 'clutter?'
why? why? why?
after tinkling with storm, my brother successfully restored everything. everything EXCEPT MY FILES. the documents, folders & programs of all users of storm, including all shared documents were successfully retrieved. all THEIR files are there. EXCEPT MINE. i have a folder in the sytem back-up, but it's empty.
my files, pictures, demand letters, pleadings, students' grades... GONE. GONE. GONE.
my heart bleeds at the injustice of it all. sniff. sniff. :(
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A back-up external hard drive costs only P2,000.00, more or less.
I guess that's the price of one's peace of mind. :)
i have a 2gb flash disk and i never go without extra blank CDs and DVDs. i just haven't backed up my files in a loooong time. as in a really looooooong time. haaaay.
Hahaha... I hear you... I don't back up much either. I do store a lot of my work stuff online though... I upload it to my Gmail account
i just had similar crash 3 weeks ago, and luckily, i didn't saved my important files in c-drive (i was advised by my i.t. colleague). since i saved important files and pictures in f-drive, i was able to retrieve all of them.
i'm sorry for your loss!
oh sorry to hear that Plang. =( I am so paranoid with my laptop crashing so I guess I must back up more often.
thanks for the condolences... haaay.
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