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August 2012

PluckyNinja is having computer problems. :(pluckyninja.tumblr.com

pluckyninja:

Well, my hard drive decided to go and quit on me for reasons unknown, which means that until I get Windows 7 reinstalled I am stuck using my macbook. To make matters worse, my data appears to be beyond my ability to recover, which means that several high-res art pieces of mine, as well as an unreleased entry of Sexy Spitfire and a WIP page of Return of Prince Blueblood are gone unless I can find a professional who knows how to deal with hard drives suffering physical damage (and isn’t going to charge me hundreds of $$$ to recover my data). I also lost a few hours’ worth of work in Maya on my culminating animation project for school which I had not backed up. It does not look like I will be able to get anything off of the hard drive in the foreseeable future, so for now I don’t really have any choice but to shelve the thing.

I haven’t had to deal with real anger for quite a while, so you can consider my jimmies were sufficiently rustled. Now that I’ve had a chance to calm down, at least the unfinished page of my Blueblood comic still exists in an earlier state on my macbook, and although that’s still a fair bit of work I will have to do it’s better than starting from scratch. I suppose the silver lining to all this mess, if there is one, is learned a valuable lesson today: back up your data regularly, because it only takes a few minutes for a seemingly healthy hard drive to turn into one that is unusable.

I’m not sure if this was just a hardware failure or if it was a virus, but I be looking into buying a SSD for my Windows install in the near future since I hear they are more stable, as well as putting in more HDDs and setting up a real backup system. I’m just lucky that most of my drawings and documents were also on my laptop, so I didn’t lose everything (even though my recent projects are on the broken HDD). It’s going to take me quite a while to reinstall my programs and copy all my data again, but I guess that should be my motivation not to let this happen to me again.

Aug 17, 2012 9 notes
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