Take That Micro$oft Windoze!

[mmerriam]

Wictory! I has win at data recovery (mostly), despite the O/S crashing twice during the recovery process.

There were a few photos that were too damaged to save, and a few others that vanish out-right, but I saved about 90% of them and found about the same percentage in my lost writing work.

I feel so much better.

Right now the data is sitting on my thunb drive and the harddrive of the desktop. Tonight I will burn it all to a CD or three.

Comments

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

WooHoo!

[purdypiedad.livejournal.com]

You are my computer hero.

[retrobabble.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[hilarymoonmurph.livejournal.com]

Excellent. I am glad that you got most of it back.

Hmm

[kythiaranos.livejournal.com]

Yays! I'm glad you recovered a lot of your data.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

So nice to know that sometimes when you fight the good fight, you win. Yay!

Huzzah!!!

[greykev.livejournal.com]

That's friggen awesome!!

Re: Huzzah!!!

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Basically, I found the photos from when careswen was dying her hair, and the set of photos you downloaded on the 7th (puppet! Harry Potter stuff). We lost all but one of the gaming photos (but it's a good one of Chuck) and none of the raptor photos survived. I found all but two of my documents in one piece.

Luckily, ladysea took photos at the raptor center presentation, so we can download copies of hers.

So not perfect, but better than a complete loss.

Re: Huzzah!!!

[greykev.livejournal.com]

the missing sets went into a folder on the desktop of the guest login, so I'm not surprised they're gone. I'm glad adobe grabbed the others and kept them safe! and honestly, except for the video (.wmv) of the eagle I'm sure ladysea's photos were better.

Re: Huzzah!!!

[careswen.livejournal.com]

the missing sets went into a folder on the desktop of the guest login

I wonder if they can still be found there, Michael?

Re: Huzzah!!!

[greykev.livejournal.com]

if he's already formatted it, probably not. :-( should have mentioned that right off the bat I guess.

Re: Huzzah!!!

[careswen.livejournal.com]

He didn't have time last night; maybe today.

Either way, it's exciting and impressive that he recovered what he did. Yay!

Re: Huzzah!!!

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

I was planning to take at least one more stab at rooting out some files before SSB takes it back. I'll probably work on it tonight while I talk to my mum on the phone.

Re: Huzzah!!!

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

HAH! Who is made of win? I is made of win!

I found the rest of the photos and my two lost .rtf files hiding under a "recent" cluster header.

Everything is saved!

I is made of win!