FA+
Shop
Computer dead >.<
12 years ago
'ello!
It's time for bad news! At least that's what my laptop decided. The SSD died a slow horrible death and it seems that now that it's entirely gone, the rest of the laptop also decided that enough were enough. It can no longer boot a Linux live disk which makes me wondering whether the hard drive is even dead. Might as well just be that some part of the motherboard stopped functioning.
The bad thing about this: This computer was really important to me. And although constantly telling everybody (including myself) that backups are so damn important I didn't have any recent backups of my work. That means:
-all past emails (past 5 years)
- some of my recent photos (including Confuzzled 2013)
- programming work
- stuff for university which will be graded
- Talks by me
- other art made by me (3D modelling, ...)
- All settings
- save games
- ...
Seemed to be lost. In addition to that a professional data rescue seemed very difficult as that particular SSD was using some magic internally which would have made it very challenging to impossible to get anything back of it by a professional. And very expensive (up to 2000€).
Fortunately I found a way to recover most of it, though! It took me some days as it was a very tedious and non automated process, but it was definitely worth it. The bad thing though is that I am right in the middle of my finals so I really didn't have the time to do it. Sometimes I just hate coincide.
Yeah. So if there is one thing you take with you from reading this: MAKE BACKUPS NOW! ;)
Cheers
It's time for bad news! At least that's what my laptop decided. The SSD died a slow horrible death and it seems that now that it's entirely gone, the rest of the laptop also decided that enough were enough. It can no longer boot a Linux live disk which makes me wondering whether the hard drive is even dead. Might as well just be that some part of the motherboard stopped functioning.
The bad thing about this: This computer was really important to me. And although constantly telling everybody (including myself) that backups are so damn important I didn't have any recent backups of my work. That means:
-all past emails (past 5 years)
- some of my recent photos (including Confuzzled 2013)
- programming work
- stuff for university which will be graded
- Talks by me
- other art made by me (3D modelling, ...)
- All settings
- save games
- ...
Seemed to be lost. In addition to that a professional data rescue seemed very difficult as that particular SSD was using some magic internally which would have made it very challenging to impossible to get anything back of it by a professional. And very expensive (up to 2000€).
Fortunately I found a way to recover most of it, though! It took me some days as it was a very tedious and non automated process, but it was definitely worth it. The bad thing though is that I am right in the middle of my finals so I really didn't have the time to do it. Sometimes I just hate coincide.
Yeah. So if there is one thing you take with you from reading this: MAKE BACKUPS NOW! ;)
Cheers
Es war übrigens nur die SSD. Sandforce Controller...