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| No luck on the recopy. The boot sector was corrupted, and I couldn't even get Windows to load. Instead of doing the smart thing and trying data recovery immediately, I tried to repair the boot sector. I thought I succeeded, but when I rebooted CHKDSK took over and erased the index markers, essentially reformatting the disk. I've been spending the past two days on data recovery, and I've been sort of luck and gotten some stuff back, with other important stuff thankfully backed up. But it looks like I've lost six years of email (curse you Gmail for not letting me import mail or starting up six years ago), which is the most serious permanent loss. I've also said goodbye to about two gigs of recent comics that can be easily downloaded again, a bunch of badly taken pictures, and a ton of assorted crap floating around the My Documents folder that I was kind of attached to.
Learn from my pain and 1) backup your critical shit regularly 2) as soon as a drive starts acting weirdly, get everything off it you can via read-only means before attempting a repair. Elementary stuff, I know, but I've been lazy and I'm paying the price. Christ, my head hurts. |
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So close and yet so far by 12/03/2005, 1:59pm PST  Re: So close and yet so far by 12/04/2005, 11:45pm PST Re: So close and yet so far by 12/05/2005, 11:41am PST Ghost is ideal for this purpose NT by 12/05/2005, 1:40pm PST It's all gone to hell by 12/06/2005, 1:15am PST |
