death of a computer

[auntiemeesh]

Puddlejumper the laptop is brain dead. It still turns on and boots up, but no one is home and nothing will open. A service call with Dell confirmed that the hard drive is deader than the Wicked Witch of the West.

The good news: Puddlejumper is under warranty, so a new hard drive should be on my doorstep by Saturday, Monday at the latest, at no cost to me.

The bad news: I kinda sorta suck at backing things up, so I've lost a lot. Everything prior to May 2007 is backed up. All my old school stuff and nearly all of my current work stuff is backed up (I lost about half an hour's worth of archives work, nothing to stress about, and thank god I thought to back that up last week, since I hadn't done so in months). Luckily, I've posted lots of Mal picspams, so I should still have all those photos in my photobucket account, but I've lost the vast majority of the pics I've taken with the digital camera. All finished fic has been posted at least to my lj if not elsewhere as well, but I had tons of stuff that was either ideas jotted down to come back to later, or bits of original stuff that I didn't post, as well as some started stories that I always meant to go back to someday. Oh, and two or three albums that I bought off of iTunes and never backed up.

So, I'm bummed. But, I've the new hard drive coming, and this will make me get over my reluctance to buy an external harddrive. Looks like I have a little more shopping to do.

Comments

[shirebound]

I'm really sorry to hear that. :(

[slightlytookish]

Oh, that's terrible! I'm so sorry to hear that :(

[whtmtnwmn.livejournal.com]

Bummer! Sorry that so much is gone...

[antbee362.livejournal.com]

Ouch! Sorry you lost so much. Maybe I should learn from your experience as I am very bad about backing up too. I have had a hard drive for several years but have never plugged it in.

[lyda-pearl.livejournal.com]

my Norton software does an automatic backup to my external drive. This is new since i had to scrape it down a few months ago That is the downside to digital v paper, not that peices of paper never got lost (or eaten).

death of a computer

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

silver lining is that backupdrives are cheaper than dirt, and can be automated to backup, as a mirror. that way you don`t have to care what things need to be backed up, it just does it. sorry it happened, in any case.

[grey-wonderer.livejournal.com]

So sorry about your computer. I lost one that way and it was not under warranty. I am very bad about not backing things up.
I'm glad you have the warranty.

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

*hugs*