Recently, the hard drive in my Macbook went bad. I took it to a company specializing in Apple, and $400 later, I have a brand new hard drive. All my documents and pictures? Gone.
The techie told me I could pay them $200 for them to perform a 50% chance, no guarantee data recovery, and if that doesn't work, I could take it to a specialist, have a higher chance but pay a couple grand. Well, I did lose most of everything I have ever written so I told them I would purchase a new hard drive but keep my old one in case I won the lottery.
Most of my poems and short stories are in hard copy form or on my old desktop, and most of my pictures are online or still on my memory cards. I don't get rid of anything. I used to think of this as a flaw. Now, I'm glad.
I'm also trying to look on the bright side. Although I had a lot of valuable documents on my late hard drive, I also had a lot of junk that for some reason I couldn't part with. Now, I have to. It's a clean slate. A new beginning. A clear head.
Hey erin...this happened to me awhile back and I just broke down. I had everything from all my nursing documents all the way to pictures. I never back up anything and what hurt the most was I lost all my music and the worst of it was I lost all my pictures of my nieces and nephews from when they were born :( I was down right devastated but I got back most of my music with the help of leah and having cds which I was excited about. I just finally realized that pics are nothing but a memory but deep down I have those memories in my heart and mind. I never was one for pictures anyways but it was just the fact at that moment I lost everything...my life was on that laptop. The brightside is now u can write poems and have all new memories...its like u said its a fresh new start...a clean new slate :)
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