Feb
11th
2012
Critical Failure · 5:11am Feb 11th, 2012
Bad news guys. In an unfortunate turn of events, my hard drive has been physically damaged. Unfortunately, that means that unless I can come up with $500 dollars to get a system recovery, a new Hard Drive, and an OS installed, I will have to start from scratch. However, I don't have a backup computer to start writing from, (I'm posting this from a work computer) so I still need to get my current pc fixed before I can start writing.
Please be patient with me. I've probably frustrated you all with my erratic release dates enough already.
I'm sorry.
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Don't worry about this little matter of updating. Just foucs on getting everything togther and clam. I can wait and am sure others can wait as well.
Sucks, but yeah, things happen, can't do anything about it. I'm sure we all will be still be here (at least I know I will) when you can fix that.
I would help you the first and last thing (can't really buy the HDD though. XD), but unless you happen to live in Mexico (and I have this feeling you don't), well... I'm afraid I can do nothing. :/
Aw, that sucks. I'm real sorry to hear that. But, hey, we don't blame you or anything. I hope you can get a new computer soon.
By the way, did you lose a lot of progress on Lost Time?
Will all work out. Got too much stuff on my tracking list right now anyway.
Thanks guys. I'm glad you are all understanding about this.
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I think I've got it covered. I couldn't ask anyone to buy this stuff for me anyways.
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Well if I can successfully recover my saved data from my hard drive, then I should be at around 3600 words into the chapter. I know for sure that I lost about 1000 words of the 4600 I had last night, but it is still fresh in my mind. Hopefully I can find a place to write it down so I don't lose it.
I don't think anyone will mind your next chapter being a little late since your computer asploded.
Anyone who actually cares about your story will have no problem waiting for quality.
Update: Starting this chapter from scratch. Data recovery is too expensive.
feels bad.
Honestly I would fix it for you for alot cheaper than 500 (thats a tad insane) but if you harddrive is physically damaged i dont see how you would be able to get any files off of it. But yea if you lived in tennessee i would gladly fix it for you just to see you be able to write more. Because honestly i love your writing style.
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) so I'll update you all when it's finished.
Thanks. I appreciate it. It was an issue with a header on the hdd. The disk is fine but... well yeah it wont read anything cause that header is broken.
But the issue has passed. I've accepted that it's broken and moved on. The only real loss was my storyboard, but that wasn't something that I would ever really forget. It's been on my mind since I started this fic.
But thank you again. I'm glad you enjoy it. I've got more story coming along now (even though it's regrettably been like a month since my last update
OH ok had to look up what you ment by header on the hdd (never heard of em called that). but yeesh that would mean a new mother board unless we are talking about something completely diffrent (just a nagging feeling) but yeahh no rush on the next chapter just felt like reading up on what all my fav authors on here were up to and noticed that.(i sware I'm not cyberstalking
) Also im happy you didn't loose too much stuff people tend to have trouble backing up their important files (I've had 3 people loose all their photos of their kids from back when they were babys).
101753 Oh I lost everything but I'm not the kind of person to dwell on the past.
Honestly though about the HDD, I really don't know, I'm just going off what the guy told me. When he said $500 I said "F*CK YOU!" and left.
HAHAHAHA yea i usually charge 30 for basic virus removal and cleanup and it can go up from there but for your issue i would have usually have charges around 50-60 depending on the amount of a headache it gave me, but from what i read if its the header thingy you should be able to plug your harddrive into a diffrent port on your motherboard and it should work unless the guy was spewing a bunch of *bleep*.
Edit: or not google is getting bad at giving you random info that might not be right. -.- well about what could fix it
101755 He most likely didn't know much about it, but the hard drive is physically broken for sure. It is clicking when it tries to read the disk.
Oh holy cow if it was doing that then it was shot plus i doubt he could have recovered any info off of it unless im missing something.