On the plus side, I have backups for my data that are recent to a month ago.
On the plus side, the version of my manuscript that I sent to an agent recently--less than a month ago, in fact--is backed up to diskette.
On the plus side, our new computer is going to be super speedy and awesome.
On the minus side, I've lost all the writing I've done on my new book unless we can save our old hard drive.
*flails*
My apologies for my lack of recent posts; I shall try to get back to once-weekly natterings soon!
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Ohhhh, Jen, so sorry to hear that. I can *shudder* imagine how you feel. Fingers and toes crossed you can save the hard drive somehow and reclaim the material.
Blah. Had this happen to me once. Such loss of writing is now responsible for a weekly triple backup of all my documents. Of course, can't quite insure against an EMP blast, but I'll do my best.
Fingers crossed for the hard drive being saved.
Oh Jen that's sickening. I'll keep a good thought for you and the old hard drive. Awful.
Sometimes it's just so easy to hate tools.
My printer is in my bad books right now, along with my back-up program. Slightly scared it's not the fault of the peripherals, but my computer...
Brenda: Thanks! I'm sure it will work out. We're pretty certain it's a hardware problem, which means the hard drive should be fine.
Josh:
Of course, can't quite insure against an EMP blast, but I'll do my best.
Hee! What--you haven't got your Faraday cage built yet? Get cracking!
Claud: Thanks! It really isn't so bad, however. I could probably recreate most of what is possibly gone.
McKoala: Good luck with your own technology woes! We're thinking about getting an external hard drive and an automatic backup program. Do you have recommendations for what not to buy?
In most cases the hard drive is salavageable, or at least msot of it. Here's hopoing yours falls in that category.
and that deleted post was me. I had too mnay windows open and posted the wrong message to your site.
I'm a Mac user and I use their program, Backup. It was super easy to use and worked fine for over two years, but now it's one sick puppy!
Travis: Thank you! We're pretty sure the issue is hardware related, so I do think our hard drive will fall into the happy category of salvageable.
McKoala: Thanks for the suggestion! We're on PC, but there's probably a version we can use. The fact we're using Linux is much more likely to be problematic.
I see I've been missing some events... but let's get the tedious computer stuff over with.
Turned out my problem was to do with the permissions on my computer. Sorted them, reloaded the software that was causing problems, just to be safe, and now we seem to have lift off. Which means I can now probably recommend Backup - it wasn't the program's fault!
I have a tiny Linux laptop, which is great in itself, but I can't use it to print, because there is no printer driver for my printer, which limits its usefulness.
McKoala:
Thanks for the recommendation! I will pass that along to El Husbando, the household Alpha Geek.
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