Everything's gone
Added 2016-04-19 05:14:50 +0000 UTCSo I lost every single one of my files on my hdd and its unrecoverable. Things are going to be slow.
Thing's I've lost:
- About ten years of art references, a lot of which was concept art from sites that don't even exist anymore, or just cannot be found anymore
- ALL the Frozen art I've accumulated, a lot of which is also unobtainable because it's been erased from the internet.
- Any commissions and gift art I've received, a lot of which are from people I assume are dead because they've disappeared.
- All my comic progress.
- Any and all gift art and commissions that I started before Thursday is gone.
- About 8 unfinished portfolios for jobs that I was hoping to apply for by the end of the year.
- Old photos.
All of it was close to 100 GB of data.
Comments
That sucks dude :(
2016-04-19 19:14:24 +0000 UTCThere's files that are still "technically" there, but all but about ten are not openable. I've scanned the thing several times and no virus or anything came up on it, and when I took it in, the IT guy couldn't find anything wrong with it either, neither physically or internally or whatever.
Alyse Kizia
2016-04-19 17:23:58 +0000 UTCI don't think so Dx
Alyse Kizia
2016-04-19 17:22:30 +0000 UTCBTW - unless you know for a fact that your hard drive has been wiped, several times (say by a virus), or your disk is physically damaged, in theory the data is still there and recoverable, even if someone has to dismantle the hard drive, remove the disk and rebuild the whole thing. It's not cheap, and you may not get every single file back, but it's highly unusual for an entire hard drive to be corrupted... unless its been having performance issues for a while and it just finally kicked the bucket?
2016-04-19 13:40:19 +0000 UTCThat's awful, I know, I've been there before.
2016-04-19 13:35:42 +0000 UTCThats horrible!! Is there anything we can do to help?
Katenotsostraight
2016-04-19 11:46:53 +0000 UTCI appreciate the suggestion. But I actually had it taken in to be worked on all weekend and it was still unable to be recovered. Nothing was physically or internally wrong with it from what the IT guy could tell. And it was spinning and making no noises out of the ordinary. I'm gonna have to send it in, but I'd be risking losing $300 for a problem they might not even fix. If it was a guaranteed fix, I'd take it, but they don't guarantee anything.
Alyse Kizia
2016-04-19 06:17:50 +0000 UTC
