Last night I took my wife out to dinner. Food was great and I was looking forward to jumping on bowhunting.com. When I got home and grabbed my computer it had a black screen of death on it:punch: Called my brother but he was on a conference call with some company in Sydney, Australia and unable to look at it. I read the error to him and he laughed and said to shut it down and he would see what he could pull from the hard drive. Needless to say all my wedding photos are on there and I never backed them up:smash: Three years of life, love and hunting are in Limbo The wife is picking up my new laptop today while I am at work so I'll be setting it up tonight and joining the Vista loving world:uzi: If I don't recover everything from the hard drive I could be in the hospital with a severly swollen groin from the wife, if so hopefully I'll get out of Xanadu
At least I am moving from a 15" to a 17" laptop My brother is going to save my old laptop and install a new drive for me as well, just hope he works his magic and can get what is lost. I am having flashbacks to all the times I whooped his second degree Ishin Ryu Blackbelt Arse and wondering if revenge is finally in the mix
If the hard drive is bad...maybe you can still have the files recovered. I had to do that with my old computer. I got almost everything recovered.
New computer is up and running, waiting until the weekend to see what my brother can do with the old one. Mom has all my wedding photos on a disc so I am good to go! This thing is all Black, I will call it Vader!
That sucks to hear about your laptop but glad that your mom has copies of them all on disc! I had that happen a few years back and it totally sucks!
If your bro needs any help, have him call me. We have some data recovery programs that we use that are pretty good for retrieving info from a failed hard drive. If the data is there, it will get it off. If it can't, the only other option is to spend thousands of dollars to have a professional data recovery service analyze the drive and try getting the data back, and even then there's no guarantee. Sorry to hear that man, that sucks! Let that be a reminder to everyone - backup, backup, backup!!! External hard drives are CHEAP!!!!!
I feel your pain. 2x nights ago, I'm sitting on the couch when Lisa says that her laptop keeps blue screening on her, and crashing. I asked her if anything unusual has happened in the last few days, and she says nothing in particular, but she did get an email through her work email about a credit card offer, that had an attachement to it..........and she opened the attachement. Computer kept crashing, and then I realized the outgoing email filter on her Symantec was going nuts.......it was emailing everyone in her address book. Long story short, I backed up all the pics and word docs from the machine last night onto CD's and have them quarantined and told her NOT to put those discs in the laptop until I can pick through them. I reformatted and wiped it clean last night and will hopefully be able to restore some of the original pics and word docs. What a PITA. Whenever something like this happens, I really wonder why I went to school for IT. There are very few things in life that I hate doing as badly as working on broken computers.
Thanks, I'll let you know. He moved in down the street in March and still hasn't unpacked anything! I am waiting to hear if his recovery stuff is found so we can see what is left. The kid is the only dang UNIX administrator for his company worldwide so getting him to do it will be another story. He still owes me from all the times I saved his but growing up so hopefully things work out. If not I'll get a hold of you and see about stopping in.
