I apologise that there has been nothing entered since Saturday but my hard drive crashed on Sunday afternoon and yesterday I spent over six hours on the phone with Dell and BT to try and get things sorted after installing a new hard drive in the morning. What a terrible way to spend a day off!!! I have yet to get the documents off the old drive and I hope to drop it off during my lunch hour. So, please pray that about 12,000 words on my thesis are able to be recovered that were not backed up! What a nightmare! Hopefully things will be back to normal very soon. So, please come by to check the site as I hope to write again soon.
UPDATE: FOR ALL READERS! Please pray for me. I have just received some very bad news. The local technician was not able to get any data from my hard drive. I am absolutely sick! This is the work I have done on my last chapter and my fourth chapter on presence. I have some of the fourth chapter but not all of it. I am literally sick to my stomach. I have found a data recovery place in Surrey and I will try to send it there. It is £75 to diagnose and anywhere between £495-£995 for recovery of data. Mary, mother of Jesus, pray for me!
I have also lost all Email Addresses! If you normally write to me, could you please send me an email so that I can have your address? Thanks!! Send to jeffrey[dot]steel1@btinternet.com
10 comments:
If you had a Mac and were using its built-in automatic back-up, Time Machine, then your restoration work would have been as simple as turning on the computer and booting up.
Once you go Mac, you never go back!
Ah hindsight is a wonderful thing!
Apparently even if the whole thing crashes you can send the original hard drive back and they can recover the files you need.
@ex_fide: it can be jolly expensive, however.
Jeff,
You should first try the guy at the very top of North Road (not the smaller phone/accessories place). He is very competent and helpful and he is not expensive.
John.
So sorry to hear about this Fr. Jeff - I know how hard you work. I will pray that you can get your work back.
Karen x
Jeff,
Aso try first the University boffins - near the library. They are very motivated - used them myself years ago in similar exigency.
Father, my deepest sympathies at the loss of so much hard work.
Fervent prayers that it will be recoverable at a reasonable price...
Fr, I'm very sorry to hear this. It happened to me late last year and I lost a load of course work and all my emails. I now use a laptop and back up all my work. I hope you get it sorted relatively cheaply.
Dear Fr. Jeffrey,
Sorry to read about your hard drive and data loss. I pray that you can find some suitable technical help and recover something of use without having to sell the church buildings!!
Mark
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