That sentence basically describes how things started off here this morning…but I was saying it to Ayla instead of a doll I stepped on (a la Adam Sandler in Big Daddy for the non-movie buffs). We’ve started digitizing our DVD collection with the intention of packing up all the cases and elminating the need to store them all in our living room. Seems like a good idea but unfortunately, it becomes far more complicated when you’ve gotten through about 30 of them and your dog knockes the external hard drive off the table.
In her defense, I should have located the drive on the floor to start with…or put it in a different place last night before going to bed…but I didn’t and so now I’m kicking myself for letting over a weeks worth of conversions slip away into oblivion…not to mention losing about 300GB of digitized music and other video files.
Sure I could go and try to have it recovered – but I would probably end up paying about €300 for this service and they may or may not retrieve anything…and that’s far more than I paid for the drive in the first place. So I’m just going to suck it up and promise myself not to be so stupid again. I had actually been thinking for a few days that I needed to back up this drive…but how does one back up 400GB like that? Make a copy on another external drive? Seemed kinda redundant. I guess if we had a couple TB drives around I might go for that…but we didn’t and now all is lost.
I’ve finally gotten over wanting to cry…for now. That must be a good sign. I do still glare at the dog when I pass by her though…which is still hard when she sits there looking all innocently at me. I can’t stay mad at her long, but I will be mift for the rest of the day at least. Because every time I look at here, I think of what a reject I was…
So the moral of the story is…back up your external hard drives…and don’t let them fall off of tables, especially when they are on. They might be able to handle a drop when turned off…but when on, you’re likely going to pay for it. And if you should still get the drive to work right after the accident, pull as much data from it as you possible can (another failure of mine since this has never happened to us before)…you have no clue when it might stop working. And I saw when, because in most cases, it’s just a matter of time before that suckers starts clicking, whirring or making other noises that you never want to hear from your hard drive!
