Another one bit the dust.

[saifai]

Right. So, my computer crashed some time back. Y'all know this. I've been on my Mom's computer for awhile trying to save the money to buy me one since the ex is being a butt and isn't getting me the one he owes me. *grumblegrumble*

You know what's coming next, right? Mom's system crashed. The harddrive motor is out of commission. The tech said the data is only recoverable using some special data recovery service (like you see in TV). Only it's gonna cost us $900. We're going to save the drive out and see if we can do something like that at some point down the road.

Mom is buying a new system on Saturday. The tech guy had some refurbished systems laying about. We're trading in her old system and getting one that's about the same as the one of mine that had crashed.

I'm going to have to rebuild my data... again (yes, I had backups... but nothing from Mom's system because she had no way for me to do it). I've got my bookmarks saved, and that's about it.

*moop* Send more chocolate.

Comments

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

Oh no!!!

:::feeds you chocolate:::


Gabrielle

[saifai.livejournal.com]

*gloms*

[fantomeq.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I always heard hard drive recovery's a lucrative field, and now I see why. Yikes. *Hugs and chocolate* Are you at least getting a tax stimulus rebate, I hope?

[saifai.livejournal.com]

No kidding. Though the guy told me a different figure today of $300 for data recovery of the drive, but still out of my budget.

*gloms*

Yup, am getting a rebate (supposedly).

[fantomeq.livejournal.com]

That's a considerably better figure at least. We're going through the same thing trying to get a fence built (a million bids that are all too high).

[ifritah.livejournal.com]

Ack! That's awful. Perhaps it's time to start emailing yourself important attachments. ^^;;

*Big hugs with chocolate on top*

[saifai.livejournal.com]

I actually had emailed myself quite a few attachments (since Yahoo doesn't have a storage limit anymore). But not everything. I hadn't updated it in quite some time, except for maybe a fresh copy of my bookmarks file. The only thing I really regret losing is my entire collection of saved fanfics and photoshop resource files.

*gloms*