Though I'm sure this will just spawn a bunch of smartass jacking, I need to express my frustration right now.

I just got finished with 3 hours of reformatting, reinstalling, and reconfiguring Windows XP (on a goddamned Friday night. ).

What adds insult to injury is that my accidentally swiped my data drive.

100% of my files to include:


1) My entire Prince collection
2) My entire Music collection
3) All my personal data stored over the years
4) All my pictures (yes, ALL of them)
5) All my precious emoticons :cry2:
6) All my software install files :cry2:
7) My email / contacts book (this is potentially salvageable when I get my PDA back from Columbus (long story) as I can synch that to my MS Outlook.
8) MY GODDAMNED SCHOOL WORK from both my BS, and MBA
The list goes on and on
What I'm basically trying to say is that I'm totally fucked.


fucked.

I'm trying to look at this as a new beginning. :cry2:


SHIT.




SHIT.



SHIT.

how did it swipe it? can you pull your hard drive and take it to get the info off of there?

I don't know enough about computers to offer any helpful advice, but I can offer a hug. Man, that really sucks! I think I'd be sick!

Just hit the "restore data" button.

Voila.

I just realized I put my pictures and avatarz and shit on my primary drive.


It's ALL the other shit I'm missing.

2the9s said:

ImagoMind777 said:

it still might be hidden in there somehow if you haven't done a whole new restore system.....

...damn...im sorry 2 hear that...i mean really...hopefully theres some way 2 get ur stuff restored...

All that porn????
Forgive him, for he knows not what he does.

Was your data on a sperate drive? If so, you may recover it.
Data recovery

Been there done that...

I'm truly sorry. It's happened to me and I can't explain the feeling. It sucks. I'm sorry.


M

I can truly sympathize with u!! It has happened 2 me on more than one occasion!!

U should try using one of these or any similar device for data storage!!

http://pcworld.pricegrabb...rid=609021
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Or even this:


http://www.kanguru.com/mi...eplus.html
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aw, that sucks. i remember a while ago my brother formatted
one of our computers and he swiped ALL my poetry from about
5 years. i was maaaaad, but couldn't retrieve it..

anyway, do you still have hard copies of the official Prince
releases? if not, i'm willing to burn you a dvd of all the
original albums and singles and send it to you.

cuz that would really suck, if you didn't have hard copies
of that stuff.

Imago777 said:

j/k



ive had similar thing happen with viruses. i had my old pc wiped clean about 3 times...not fun.

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IstenSzek said:

you are very nice!

Thanks guys.

I'm appreciate the they sympathy. I'm just so angry right now.
I'm currently my entire collection to see what the damage is (for music).
I'm pretty sure I lost my Prince CD collection becuase I can't find
half of the shit I burned to mp3.

This will teach me to archive my stuff to DVD.

Wow, that's really horrible. Just twenty years ago it would have taken a great big fire to wipe out a person's collected work, but these days a press of a button can do it.

I always keep back-ups of all my important files. Every now and then I burn them to DVDs, some of them are on my external hard drive and some of them I've e-mailed to my Hotmail-account. It still doesn't give me peace of mind though. What if a sleeper virus has already infected all of it? At least I can print out my most precious files: the scripts and stories that I've written.

Can't you at least get your school work back from the university? They must keep them somewhere in a file cabinet or on a computer, right?

Sorry to hear about this, man... I can only imagine how it must feel.

Imago777 said:

ONE WORD : BACKUP

sorry to hear it I need to back up my files more often than I do.

How does one back up files????

YOU KNOW SOMETHING??

I'm actually in a good mood this morning. I'm going to look at this as 2 things:

1) Karma I needed to pay back
2) Opportunityt to start over, learn a lesson, and come out better for it.

Plus the weather is beautiful today. Think I'll go to the beach today.

REDFEATHERS said:

Burn them to C.D.Save them on an external hard drive, just save them to any removable storage.

Imago777 said:

That's the spirit!!


Sorry to hear about it though. Were it me who lost my entire music collection, I'd be depressed for daaaaayyyyysssss.

Imago777 said:

I didnt know Robbie did a fucking album!

LleeLlee said:

I need to get a CD burner

Have you tried a program like Smart Undelete? http://www.smartundelete.com/ You might be able to recover alot of that.