A little about Eric...
Eric and I met my first year of college. He was in the dorm room down the hall and we shared many interests which included our Comodore 64 and business. We went to school together for two years and remained friends. He was always very good with computer related issues. He stayed the course after college sticking with high technology and working for high profile music and entertainment companies through the years as 'the main guy' to their websites. Eric was also one of my first partners in film. Dale, Eric and I shot our very first movie called "Till Death Do Us Part". A 30 minute short film shot on home video with VCR-to-VCR editing as well as in-camera editing. Our production company was called TRI STAR PICTURES - G.E.D. PRODUCTIONS. Although I rarely see Eric, he's always my go-to guy when it comes to networking or computer help. He always has the answer. He has a blog for tech support (which I think he should update) but the information on it is pretty valuable. Especially those thinking about VoIP. Visit it here: (Tecnical Support) We also both own silver BMW 323i's.
What a guy!
Okay... back to the "So everything is gone..." theme of this post.
All Jessica's and my iTunes music, Donna's and my PDA data, my scripts, my website designs, my work files, Donna and Jessica's school files, my poems, my short stories, my software, my pictures, my databases... EVERYTHING IS GONE!
But I still have hope. I think.
Let me digress...
This was 10 or so days ago...
My laptop crashed. It could not find the hard drive. I found out I had 30 days left on my warranty and took advantage of it because... well, I had to.
Dell sent me a replacement Hard Drive with their Windows XP install CD. It was part of the three year warranty that I got with the laptop...
Within a day, they got me a new hard drive. It took about 45 minutes to install Win XP.
Bottom line - it worked. I have a new hard drive with 30 gig of free space on it.
BUT... everything is gone.
I have backup for some software like Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Movie Magic Screenwriter, Final Draft, etc. But I purchased the preloaded Windows Office when I bought the computer three years ago. So Excel, Word, Access and Powerpoint is lost. It's all on the old hard drive. It's been three years since I saw those backup CDs... So I'll have to go find it among the mess that makes up my office.
I'll have to see if data recovery company can recover my data from my old hardrive or find an alternative 'cheaper' way to do it. I just want my Document files.
So you see... I'm hating life.
1 comment:
Thanks Emo ChiChi! Its the thought that counts. Call me and I'll tell you what else you can buy.
Boom - they may have tried to repair the drive, but they may have not tried to recover the data. That's probably two different things. There are data recovery companies that do just that.
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