The Cursed Hard Drive Crash of October 14, 2005

Awful. Totally heart breaking. That's what it was like when I got the message that I should put my boot disk in my computer. "Hmmm," says I, "I thought the boot disk was my hard drive?" I tried to start it up several more times, to no avail. It was then that I had this ominous, sinking, gut wrenching, feeling that something bad had happened. Something very bad.

Thoughts ran through my head... When did I back this thing up last? Are all my pix and docs now toast? Who can help me?

I trucked the whole CPU and case into the CompUSA store and surrendered my charge card number to the technician to be pre-charged for an hour of his labor and left. The phone call came two days later, "sorry pal you're screwed. Your Hard drive arm is broken and we can't save the data. Unless you want to pay $200 an hour to someone to rebuild your wrecked hard drive to T-R-Y and salvage your data." Sounds pretty expensive. Hmmmm- I'm not independently wealthy and hey, I backed it up ...when?

I told him to put in a new HD and call it a day. I got it back and am loading my programs back on right now. I'll also put back the data that I had backed up. I'll also keep the old hard drive. Who knows... maybe I can get it done for cheap in the future and bring all the old stuff back to life !

LESSON LEARNED: Even though you think you're backing your data up often...it's never too often (or often enough).