Two weeks and counting, and the guys at Fry’s haven’t even touched the thing yet. We went in on Thursday to check up on things and they said it was still near the back of the line. We were at least able to convince them to order the new hard drive ahead of time so it didn’t have to wait around for parts to arrive when they were finally ready to pay it some attention.
This current Fry’s guy also warned us that the information is almost positively lost. We called the super powerful data retrieval folks that Fry’s referred us to, and they’ll happily check things out for us. It will only cost us somewhere between $800 – $1800.
That’s kind of a lot of money. Even for something as priceless as baby photos. Thank goodness I’m a blogger and we still have all the photos I’ve shared. We lost a lot of his pictures, but between flickr and costco.com saving all the photos I’ve sent off to print, we have the best ones. So we’re not going to bother calling in the super-experts, which means what isn’t on the external hard drive is gone.
This has been such a colosal bummer for me. My craft book is probably safe in some version, but who knows how much I lost. All my podcasts that keep me sane and sleeping through the night, all my work. And of course the pictures.
We’ve also lost all the emails and contact information we ever had, so if you’d like a Christmas card this year, please email me your info (and any info you may have for someone else we know) to either tresa at reesedixon dot com or tresa at tresaedmunds dot com .
I will continue poking along on this ancient laptop and trying not to have daily panic attacks over how much I’ve lost and how cut off from the world I am.