Most don’t know that not only do I make all my own ads but I also make the ads for Weapons by AN. On Tuesday of this past week, Master Alvar needed me to make him an add for a new bow he will be releasing. When I went to open the template of his ad that I had made, I was unable to open it. My external hard drive wasn’t responding. Try as I may, no matter what fix action I tried, I could not get to my data.
I took my external to Best Buy to have their Geek Squad look at it. The guy took my hard drive into the back to take it apart and check it and finally came back to tell me some good news. Apparently the case for my external had gone bad, but he said my hard drive was fine. Good news! He took me back to computers and helped me find a new case for my drive, so I bought it and headed home. After getting the hard drive in its new case and reconnecting it to the computer I thought I would try to access my data to make sure everything okay. When I would try to access the data it seemed as if things were fine but then things seemed to be freezing up.
After a few attempts of trying to access the data, the hard drive once again stopped responding. It was too late to return to Best Buy, so I figured I would go back the next day. I ended up napping a bit too much the next day, tired from work and stress. I wasn’t going any where near a store on Black Friday so I visited the Geek Squad guys again on Saturday. I had tried a few more times at home to get the hard drive to respond. I even tried hooking it back into the old case, but had no luck. The Geek Squad guy took my hard drive in back to give it a look. he came back out to tell me it didn’t look good as the hard drive wasn’t responding. He grabbed the new case and decided to give it a try with that.
The end to the story thus far is the Geek Squad guy told me the drive isn’t even spinning up now. My only option is trying to find someone that does data recovery to see if they can retrieve my data. This he said would not be an inexpensive option. I am now looking into finding a data recovery agent in town to inspect the drive and hopefully get the data back.
Why is this important to you? Because all of my files for the shop were on that drive. I won’t be making any new clothing until I can get the data back, if I can get it back.
As for updates; I’ve begun talks with my scripting mentor about making the storage items a joint project. She has helped me so much with the scripts in the past that I thought it best to get her more involved and offer a share of the sales. Hopefully sometime in the near future we will be putting out an update to the storage items and scripts which will include lag and memory resource reduction, as well as updating all of the scripts to mono. I do not have an ETA for this change as it may take us a while to go through the scripts and evaluate any and all problems that may exist.
