This weekend was a computer nightmare.
I had an SSD fail, taking two months work of artwork with it.
Commercial artwork, some of which was for a job that I hadn’t delivered yet.
It was weird – the folders were there, but showed as empty. I was in a panic.
I tried every data recovery trick I could think of, even buying new recovery
software. Nothing worked.
I had about given up on many, many hours of work as permanently lost.
I have an old Win7 laptop that I use for older games – C&C, Duke Nukem
side scrollers, the old stuff that won’t run on Win10 or 11.
I thought “Why not?” and plugged the SSD in with a USB adapter.
A window popped up, “Drive F has problems. Would you like to attempt
a repair?”
There was no “Oh, hell yes!” button, so I clicked on “yes”.
The hourglass stayed on. And stayed on. For hours. Then the computer beeped.
The files were visible then. I didn’t do anything except immediately copy them to
the laptop’s C drive. Then plug in a USB stick and copied all the files to it.
Then I plugged in an NVME drive with an adapter and copied them again.
Not taking any chances.
Now that computer has two SSDs in a RAID-5 array. Duplicate drives. Different
manufacturers. Not taking any chances.
Not using Crucial or Micron products again. They have short lives
(Drive had 882 hours on it.) and don’t honor warranty.
All is okay now, I have a headache.
I keep telling myself to make regular backups and never do.
Said it before….
Win7 was the pinnacle of MS operating
systems. Everything before and after
(especially after) are buggy, bloated,
and spyware.
I still have an old laptop with Win7 on it.
Currently it’s on loan to a g’daughter.
(I hope I can eventually get it back)
Eye-opening moments.
“…you’ll be able to wallow in martyrdom
for the rest of your life.”
OUCH!!
THAT’S gonna leave a well deserved
bruise or two.
I love the “wallow” it’s a
perfect word for the “horrible suffering”
she’ll go through. I can see her friends’
eye rolls now after the 50th telling.
This weekend was a computer nightmare.
I had an SSD fail, taking two months work of artwork with it.
Commercial artwork, some of which was for a job that I hadn’t delivered yet.
It was weird – the folders were there, but showed as empty. I was in a panic.
I tried every data recovery trick I could think of, even buying new recovery
software. Nothing worked.
I had about given up on many, many hours of work as permanently lost.
I have an old Win7 laptop that I use for older games – C&C, Duke Nukem
side scrollers, the old stuff that won’t run on Win10 or 11.
I thought “Why not?” and plugged the SSD in with a USB adapter.
A window popped up, “Drive F has problems. Would you like to attempt
a repair?”
There was no “Oh, hell yes!” button, so I clicked on “yes”.
The hourglass stayed on. And stayed on. For hours. Then the computer beeped.
The files were visible then. I didn’t do anything except immediately copy them to
the laptop’s C drive. Then plug in a USB stick and copied all the files to it.
Then I plugged in an NVME drive with an adapter and copied them again.
Not taking any chances.
Now that computer has two SSDs in a RAID-5 array. Duplicate drives. Different
manufacturers. Not taking any chances.
Not using Crucial or Micron products again. They have short lives
(Drive had 882 hours on it.) and don’t honor warranty.
All is okay now, I have a headache.
I keep telling myself to make regular backups and never do.
Said it before….
Win7 was the pinnacle of MS operating
systems. Everything before and after
(especially after) are buggy, bloated,
and spyware.
I still have an old laptop with Win7 on it.
Currently it’s on loan to a g’daughter.
(I hope I can eventually get it back)