*Attention! the following reading material has been proved hazzardous to the health of non geeks. Continue reading at your own discretion*
Anyone know the feeling that you just lost 3 weeks of your life? And not just like what you did wasn't worth it, but that is was just GONE!!
Well one of the Hard Drives on our server yesterday just died. Overheating I suspect. Not that I have ever heard of a Hard Drive giving up the ghost because of exessive heat, but I do have logs to prove overheating.
So what does that mean practically? That all the work I was doing for the past 3 weeks just vanished into smoke and a smouldering piece of metal. (Well okay, it wasn't really smoking, but it was quite hot)
I think my brain went with it last night, since I came back from a day of witnessing in the late afternoon, sat at my desk and someone called out "Hey is the server working?" Since I am officially the home 'geek' obviously it was up to me to find out what was going on. The only problem was that it didn't have a monitor. I kept seeing the Hard Drive light on the server blink away. (For those of you computer illiterate, it means that it is being used. aka. busy)
After patiently waiting for 5 or 6 minutes I couldn't take it any longer and pulled someone's monitor from them.
"Hey that was my monitor!"
"That is true. It WAS your monitor!"
So I plug it in and lo and behold I am greeted with a wonderful string of messages on the screen:
Sector 2462 unreadable
Sector 2463 unreadable
Sector 2464 unreadable
Sector 2465 unreadable
Sector 2466 unreadable
Sector 2467 unreadable
Sector 2468 unreadable
Sector 2469 unreadable
Sector 2470 unreadable
Etc. Etc.
My heart went "pitter patter". No wait. That isn't the expression I am looking for...
My heart nearly stopped. (Sounds so much more dramatic doesn't it?) After resetting again and again I was finally able to get the computer turned on and working. (Somewhat) Only to be greeted with the glorious message...
My heart (and any other vital organs) sank.
"Do I have a back-up??" Was the first thought that raced through my head.
To add to my stress level, I wasn't aware that there was an old back-up.
Well to make a long story short I was able to get over half of the work back since there were old copies of some of my work lying deleted on some other Hard Drives. So putting my l33t hax0rz skillz to the test, I pull out my ever handy, Easy Recovery program. (I just can't believe that I only thought of this at night lying in bed)
Thankfully I was able to recover around half of what I had lost. But the best part of it was that the parts I recovered were the most time consuming parts. (Oh the Joy!!!)
I was so happy I almost didn't mind that I had lost it in the first place.
But of course everyone in the home lost all kinds of important files, from the home schedule, to finances, to the kids school for the year.
The Lord knows. Cause I sure don't. Heh.
Anyone know the feeling that you just lost 3 weeks of your life? And not just like what you did wasn't worth it, but that is was just GONE!!
Well one of the Hard Drives on our server yesterday just died. Overheating I suspect. Not that I have ever heard of a Hard Drive giving up the ghost because of exessive heat, but I do have logs to prove overheating.
So what does that mean practically? That all the work I was doing for the past 3 weeks just vanished into smoke and a smouldering piece of metal. (Well okay, it wasn't really smoking, but it was quite hot)
I think my brain went with it last night, since I came back from a day of witnessing in the late afternoon, sat at my desk and someone called out "Hey is the server working?" Since I am officially the home 'geek' obviously it was up to me to find out what was going on. The only problem was that it didn't have a monitor. I kept seeing the Hard Drive light on the server blink away. (For those of you computer illiterate, it means that it is being used. aka. busy)
After patiently waiting for 5 or 6 minutes I couldn't take it any longer and pulled someone's monitor from them.
"Hey that was my monitor!"
"That is true. It WAS your monitor!"
So I plug it in and lo and behold I am greeted with a wonderful string of messages on the screen:
Sector 2462 unreadable
Sector 2463 unreadable
Sector 2464 unreadable
Sector 2465 unreadable
Sector 2466 unreadable
Sector 2467 unreadable
Sector 2468 unreadable
Sector 2469 unreadable
Sector 2470 unreadable
Etc. Etc.
My heart went "pitter patter". No wait. That isn't the expression I am looking for...
My heart nearly stopped. (Sounds so much more dramatic doesn't it?) After resetting again and again I was finally able to get the computer turned on and working. (Somewhat) Only to be greeted with the glorious message...
Volume F: is unavailable
My heart (and any other vital organs) sank.
"Do I have a back-up??" Was the first thought that raced through my head.
To add to my stress level, I wasn't aware that there was an old back-up.
Well to make a long story short I was able to get over half of the work back since there were old copies of some of my work lying deleted on some other Hard Drives. So putting my l33t hax0rz skillz to the test, I pull out my ever handy, Easy Recovery program. (I just can't believe that I only thought of this at night lying in bed)
Thankfully I was able to recover around half of what I had lost. But the best part of it was that the parts I recovered were the most time consuming parts. (Oh the Joy!!!)
I was so happy I almost didn't mind that I had lost it in the first place.
But of course everyone in the home lost all kinds of important files, from the home schedule, to finances, to the kids school for the year.
The Lord knows. Cause I sure don't. Heh.
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