On 7/3/07, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well shit. > > I mentioned the other day that I had a hard drive problem. I turns out > the head had died. I took the hard drives (RAID 0 configured system) > to a data recovery company in the hope that my files could be > retrieved. I just got a heart breaking call. All the platters were > scratched & there is no chance of recovering the data. FUCK, FUCK, > FUCK!!!!! > > I had grown lax in my backing up so I've basically lost all my photos > taken with the K10D from before my OS trip. > > A lot of the shots aren't a big loss. While disappointing, I can live > without a glut of flower & cat photos, but there are some (such as > those of the comet McNaught, and a few family gatherings) that I'll > never get a chance to re-shoot. > > Let this be a warning to all those who don't regularly back up because > they don't think it will happen to them. It might, so don't be > lazy/cheap. > > I just want to go to bed now. > > FUCK, FUCK, FUCK!!!!!
OUCH! I can commiserate just a bit. As some of you may know, I'm a digi-newbie, and I just got a new (to me) computer. I've been shooting in RAW, and rather than load those big files, I've left them in the card until I get around to buying a few CD's on which to load them. I was fiddling around with what might have been the best shot I've taken in a while, and I somehow deleted it. >From the card. So it's not in the trash. It's gone. There's some sort of programme on my computer that's supposed to help retrieving such files - of course it wasn't able to help me (yet, anyway). Okay, that's only one pic, nothing like you've gone through, but still, I can feel your pain. And, hopefully I've learned my lesson... My deepest condolences for your loss. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
