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a year ago
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Yeah, I got a nasty surprise last night when I went to install an Nvidia driver update, restarted my computer, and then come to find that my main storage hard drive, the one that holds all of my important files, decided to fail. No warning, no grinding noises, no clicking, just dead.
Unfortunately, I lost a LOT of important and sentimental files. Especially family photos of my late father that I have no avenue of getting back. I also lost almost all PSD files for my personal art and for my commissions. Thankfully the commissions are already *done*, but it still sucks to lose those files. As for the personal art, I lost a lot of progress on three big pieces I was working on. Thankfully I have screenshots to work off of to rebuild the files, but I have to re-ink them first.
It sucks, and I'm still upset about it, but my husband has been working to try to recover the data. It's been no use. No recovery program has worked, nor can the PCs even properly detect the drive half the time.
While my husband is still trying to do what he can to see if there is some way to save the data, the outlook is pretty grim. If he can't get it, I doubt any data recovery service is going to get it either. Plus, I don't want to drop $550 - $700 on something that may not work. Nor can I even afford it if it does.
So, I have to accept that those files are just *gone*.
Thankfully there are some files I have been able to recover, due to having back ups in other places, but there is still a significant chunk that is just gone for good.
I have a replacement hard drive now, so I will be able to work. It just sucks that this happened right when I was planning on replacing that hard drive soon anyway. Not that it was giving me any warning or anything. Just more so I had an inkling I should do it soon. I just couldn't get the funds in time.
Just. Weh.
EDIT: I appreciate the suggestions, truly. But I am getting a lot of the same suggestions repeated to me in multiple places, so for now, I'll disable comments.
I'll just say again, even if data recovery is still an option, I cannot afford it, even at the lower-priced estimate right now. I'm currently not in a position to be able to drop money on that, and even if I had the money on hand, I have other things going on that kind of take priority over this. It's just not financially possible for me right now when I have other things that are technically more important.
This journal is more so to vent, but to also alert my clients that if for some reason they need certain old commission files from me, those files may no longer be available. Trust me when I say I am exploring every avenue I can to try to get the data back, but I just can't afford data recovery right now. I just can't.
Thank you.
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You shall always be a part of our grand cosmos.
Rest in peace, our beloved Spoozy.
🤍12/17/83 - 01/23/22🤍
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As much as I'd like to take it to someone, I really do not have the money for data recovery right now. So I guess I'll hold onto it for now.