Dear My Friends

[roxy]

You know when folks tell you back your shit up, and you say, 'yeah, yeah, sure I will--tomorrow.' Well, tomorrow never comes, or rather it comes when you least expect it. All my shit is looooooost. I cry bitter fucking tears, my friends.

This sucks. Oh well. What are you gonna do, hah? Stiff upper lip, my dears.

Say, Bobby's on The Mentalist! I missed all of it, pooh!

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[rednihilist.livejournal.com]

O.O

Oh, honey! Ack!!!! *bathes you in chocolate and dries you off with Tom*

Dude, lemme know if I can do anything or-- or be a sounding board should you feel the desire to really vent? I am here, hon, and I'm so sorry this happened to you! :(((( My poor Snuggles!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Thank you lovey. It's like I'm not even upset, I think I'm in shock. He didn't even want to tell me my shit was gone. *sigh* Thank god I've been obsessively saving my recent fics. And I've got a shit ton of notes for this new thing--but I wanted to play with this J2 idea and that I didn't save to my flashdrive.

Snuggles thanks you. *HUG*

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

So you've taken it to one of those specialist places? There are shops that specialise in disk recovery. Not always expensive, but they can often recover the majority of files.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

*nods* There's a place not far from Mr. R's job. They say they might be able to recover some files, for a price that frankly makes me gag, but then again, I'm awfully poor.

[dawnybee.livejournal.com]

No! Was it on your harddrive or a thumbdrive? There's a program that recovers docs. Say, if you deleted a previous version of it. Would that help or is it just eaten up by the computers?

Also, that sucks butt! ::cries with you::

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I've got recent stuff on my flashdrive but all my pics, my PDFs of 'I Done Flounced Off The Internet' fics, my vids, my gay porn vids--*sobs* Stuff from my early days of fandom...it makes me sad, and makes me wish I wasn't a dummy. *cliiings*

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

You want some gay pron? I got a metric shit tonne I can share. Post some disks or something?

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Really? Heee, I can just see Mr. R's face...let us figure out how to do this sending of porn, yes! Maybe after I build up my accounts--this fixing the laptop is going to be a wildly expensive thing--plus I have to replace my disc drive which is fucked. It's a rain and pour kind of thing.

[dawnybee.livejournal.com]

I lost everything last year due to a virus (and the killing part was that I didn't back up anything despite having a external harddrive still in the box ), but the computer place I took it too recovered pretty much everything. What I lost permanently were the program files that I had to reinstall, but the rest was retrieved, although some was corrupted.

I used this program to restore files I accidentally deleted on my thumbdrive and it worked.

Perhaps, maybe, just maybe if you did a System Restore to an earlier date it'd undue the possible virus? System Restore is my equivalent of Superman turning the world backwards.

http://download.cnet.com/Pandora-Recovery/3000-2094_4-10694796.html?tag=mncol;1

[silsbee329.livejournal.com]

DAMN. *hugs*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

*CRIES*

[prettysilent.livejournal.com]

all of it? there are software that can recover entire drives. maybe you can give it a try?

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

All of it! Mr R, my beloved, thinks that everything is pretty much toast. He thinks it was a virus, but he's not sure. I feel like it's my fault--I just don't pay much attention to it, you know? *sigh* I'm paying the price for being a techno-boob. :(

[prettysilent.livejournal.com]

hmm, try pandora recovery just in case, if you want. i once crashed my system and lost everything, but then recovered everything again using that. but that was my brother... lol, i'm not that comp savvy either :)
or put up a list of what you lost maybe? i'm sure everyone will pitch in and you can get back some portion at least. just my thoughts *hugs*

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks, my dear! You're very kind, thinking about my lost stuff! you know the pain. I honestly don't even know what I lost--there was so much. My beloved thinks he might get some things back. *throws hands up* You know what? I'm not going to angst about it! *HUGS* Life goes on. I'll just have fun hunting everything down again.Next stop, SpN storyfinders! ;)

[suzvoy.livejournal.com]

Nooooooooooooo!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

*CRIES REALLY HARD*

[romanyg.livejournal.com]

I'm the world's worst at backing up my drive myself. *many gentle hugs*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

*siiiiiighs*

Thank you, lovey.

[xinsidemyskinx.livejournal.com]

Hugs you... this has happened to me on more than one occasion. I feel your pain!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

*cries* a virus ate my laptop! *clings*

[myownghost.livejournal.com]

i once accidentally deleted my entire harddrive. why the computer gave me that as a casual option to choose, i do not know. my older son managed to save a lot of stuff, but some crucially important things were corrupted and never recovered, and i still regret that. it was like having a stroke and losing memory.

i notice that dawnybee has suggested a recovery tool. if you try it, i hope it works.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Once we can get it running, I hope to recover some stuff. I had some good old Smallville vids that I never thought to burn to dvds.

Ach, girl. I knew it would suck to be without my magic brick, but my goodness, it really sucks *hard*!

[cha.livejournal.com]

:( that makes me sad

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

And you've got a cool new story I want to read! :(

I feel all isolated.

[cha.livejournal.com]

:( I wish I could help

[squeakypiggy.livejournal.com]

God I feel for you! I experienced something similar a few years ago, my entire harddrive crashed. Wouldn't boot, wouldn't even access through another computer. It was a short in one of the circuits and unfortunately I did have to send it to one of those specialists.

A few weeks later a friend of mine experienced the same thing, only hers was due to a husband that was cheating on her and was randomly deleting files to "hide his tracks" and all of her digital photos of her babies were lost.

I ended up using Recuva on her system since it wasn't a physical crash like mine. And it did manage to find all of her pictures as well as a *lot* of his. Maybe it'll help you find some files on yours if it's not a physical error.

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't boot, wouldn't even access through another computer. It was a short in one of the circuits and unfortunately I did have to send it to one of those specialists.

I wonder if that's what happened to me! I'm having the same problems you did. At least I know it wasn't a cheating hubby, mine is mine alone. Plus, you know, I'd have to kill him really hard if he messed up like *that*, lol!

[danceswithgary]

Oh, dear. *pets you and then backs everything up AGAIN*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

LOL! let me be a lesson to you, young lady!

[tabaqui]

Awwwww!
*hugs you tight*

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I'm done. I'm moving in with you. Either that, or I'm taking up smoking cigars. Or taxidermy. I'll need a NEW FUCKING HOBBY!!!!!

On the other, less crazyazz hand, I'm filling up a notebook with notes and snippets of a really weird story...*G*

[tabaqui]

Okay then!! We'll have to buy a futon or something....
*plots*

:)

I still need to read your fic that you posted, Silver John, i had it open and then something crashed and now it's buried under a billion other bookmarks. I am a bad, bad reader!!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Nooooooooo!

I look forward to you reading it, I think it's not too shabby! :)

[ender24]

shit!
that really sucks majorly!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Right? I'm in and out of this space like a ninja, stealing computer time when the Fams' back is turned. :)