WAIT!!! I'm not through whining :-(

Evo

My life was on that computer.

I have some stuff backed up, but not all.

wolram

Never mind Evo, i will send you a bottle of life.

Evo

turbo

Evo, there are hard-drive recovery experts who can resurrect your data for you. It might cost you, but it can be done. Then do what I did, and buy a duplicate HD for your PC and mirror the main drive onto the spare. To be really safe, you should buy a USB drive for your most valuable files, copy them onto that, and give the drive to one of your daughters for safe-keeping. That way, if your place burns or your PC is stolen, your data is in a safe place. My brother-in-law stores some of his files with me for that reason. I have two large fire-rated safes.

Evo

I've copied a lot on CD's, and have an online backup. But there is still a lot I know I didn't backup. Yeah, I'm going to get the Nerd Herd to fix it.

rewebster

MBR and fixboot has saved me a few times--but you need some sharp cheddar

Astronuc

One can jump the HD to slave or cable select and use a USB caddie to read it, unless the FAT is hosed, which hopefully didn't happen. Also FileScavenger is pretty good recovery tool.

http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm - FileScavenger.

russ_watters

Just copy it from yours to hers - but make sure you know if you deleted yours!

binzing

What happened? Gah, I hate missing a few days on the damn forum...

Hurkyl

Then stick to this forum -- it has no metaphysical curses attached!

binzing

Ha, our science teacher refers to all the freshman Pre-AP science students (me included) as the Nerd Herd.

Tom Mattson

Evo, this is why I have been telling you to post all of your photos on the internet. But you would never listen to me. You just kept calling me names. Well, who's the "pervert" now Evo, huh?

Cyrus

I hope your hard drive didnt have a mechanical failure. Mine did. They said they had to open it up to recover the data and I would cost almost a grand (For ever 500MB!), so I was like meh oh well.

Its not going to be cheap.

binzing

Ha ha, did you drop a "meh" just because this is a tech related thread.

Cyrus

Meh is a tech term now?

binzing

Well, net related I always thought...

Cyrus

Its just the sound people make when they shrug their shoulders because they dont care, mehhhhhhhhhh (shrug).