*facesmash* & a meme.

[beccatoria]

...my external HD just died. The one that everything lived on. Yeah, yeah, I know, everyone says, back it up four times, etc., etc., but my harddrive ain't huge and I ain't rich enough for two large external HDs so now I've lost...pretty much everything including stuff I know for a fact I'll never get back cus it's been taken offline. Bye bye most of my epic vids collection. I just...seriously. I would like to catch a break at some point, you know? FML.

Therefore in a fit of self-pity I have signed up for the fanvid love meme. I feel a bit like a sheepish whore, but, um, here's my thread:

http://sdwolfpup.livejournal.com/525866.html?thread=12320810#t12320810

Comments

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

Oh noes! It's like an information loss epidemic out there. So many people are losing everything! I think I was about to ask for a second external HD for Christmas or something. But hell, one shouldn't need three back ups!

I already left you a comment in the meme before I new about evil HD crashage. I'm so sorry. But maybe take it to a data retrieval place? It costs hundreds of dollars but maybe? Not a regular tech, though because they can be stupid. Is hope completely lost?

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I know! And yes, we shouldn't need fifty million backups. Things SHOULDN'T BREAK. Especially not without warning. It was working, I went out, I came home, it was broken. :(

I don't think I can fix it though basically cus of the cost - I had to shell out for a new one; there's no point pretending like I can afford to try and save the old data too. :(

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

I'm very sorry. But save that HD! As long as no one wipes it or anything there is hope. You have years of data on there. Maybe someday you can afford to have someone try to retrieve what was lost.

Things should not break! And not so unexpectedly. It's hard to trust even new things after they've broken on you before. Even though my computer is fixed I swear I e-mail so many things now just so they are out in the world should a loss occur. I've grown quite paranoid about it. :-(