A menagerie of stuff has happened since my last post. Unfortunately, that includes
1. I forgot my friggin' password for Google. How is this possible? I have no idea, because I basically use the same password for EVERYTHING.
2. School work has finally ended, grades are finally in, and after weeks of intense fear of college failure, I got some pretty decent grades. Crisis averted.
3. My laptop got some crazy virus where it tried to CLAIM I HAD NO "WIN 12 ANTI-SPYWARE PROGRAM" AND INSTALL NOW OR ELSE YOU CANNOT OPEN THE INTERWEBS. I was pissed. So I wiped my laptop.
3. b. Um, impulsively wiping a laptop? Bad idea.
3. c. Impulsively wiping the only object you wrote a semi-good novel on? Yea, no, you deserve to DIE.
Now, I could have made this list impractically long, but really, erasing my all my writing in a fit of rage? Never a good idea. DO NOT DO THAT. DO NOT DO THAT! I'm pretty sure I'm still in denial that it happened at all, but when I finally open up a new document on my laptop and start wondering why all my saved files are gone, my world will come crumbling down.
I dread the day.
4 comments:
I've done stupid things to computers before also. (why I prefer writing on paper now :). The good news is, just because it's deleted, doesn't mean it's necessarily gone.
The better news is, there are programs out there that can help you get back whatever was there.
I've personally used Data Rescue on Mac before (they have it for Windows too) to pull data off a hard drive that had crashed, memory cards I'd stupidly erased before I'd downloaded pictures, and other stuff. It's put out by this place:
http://www.prosofteng.com/
There's others out there also. Here's some Lifehacker listed for free a while back (I haven't used these):
http://lifehacker.com/5237503/five-best-free-data-recovery-tools
Now here's the thing, when you re-installed the operating system, you overwrote some data that won't be recoverable. However, most of that was probably where the OS was sitting before, just by the nature of how it lays things down on the disk. So there's a really good chance you can get at least your novel and documents back, and maybe a bunch of your photos and other data as well. It takes a while to run, but it's worth it.
Oh, almost forgot to add...good luck :)
Aw, Michael, thank you! I'll surely check both those programs out!
That sucks. I've totally done that, too, but in the re-writing I found that the resultant work turned out even better! Here's hoping the same happens for you.
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