Ok so my computer actually truely really does hate me and I finally have proof!!! SERIOUSLY!!! All my months of hard work taking these blasted pictures for the church website and the bulletin boards, and of course then there is my art... Now it’s all gone.
Technically it’s not actually gone, it’s just in hiding. According to Chris’s hard drive (we each have our own just hooked into the same computer - I would go nuts if I had to share- oy!), my computer has a corrupted partition table. Which I have actually suspected for some time now but knew nothing about so had no way to fix it. Duh Wikipedia. Anyway, my computer is invisisble now... and so is everything on it- which means my music, my pictures, my programs, my everything...
We have had to use the windows disk to boot the blasted computers for several months. That alone should have been an indication that something was seriously wrong, but Chris being Chris didn’t bother to do anything about it or let me because it wasn’t completely dead yet and it wasn’t really affecting him. I started trying to backup my stuff knowing it was only going to get worse but just adding my music to his computer slowed it down because it pretty much filled it up completely! Not even half of my pictures would fit on it even without any programs other than windows (and it’s basics like paint, word pad, etc..) installed. Even when I zipped it and compressed it in every way I could think of, it still wasn’t going to fit. We had a very nice friend give us one of his hard drives Sunday night, and I was overjoyed- finally I was going to get to back it all up!
When we finally got that hard drive formatted and ready to fill up with all my happy stuff- it was invisible- poof- gone! I think I lost many years off of my life... hours and hours and hours of work- missing!!! So now I have the joys of using data recovery programs and hoping to find one that not only works but that I can afford. We found one that did locate my files but they wanted $200 which we do not have. In the end, if it is the only one that can help me though, I will sell my soul if I have to just to get it back.
Why me? Why not Chris’s computer which has nothing important on it at all! Why mine that has blood sweat and tears ingrained into its very being??? Why me, the one who needs the computer to function in almost any capacity, from the flyers for events I have to promot to the pictures I have to print/ share/ sell??!!! ARGH!
Another wonderful little problem is that even if we do get it all back, it will probably happen again. For whatever reason my hard drive keeps announcing that it has ______ many bad sectors and the numbers go up every day. Its up to 20 now. Any ideas what the hell is causing that??? Or better yet, what to do about it??? Anyone??