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I was greeted this morning with the blue screen of death. All unbacked up work, including two and a half chapters of Sweat and Tears, down the pan. Sorry.

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BSOD

Are you sure that the data is gone? A BSOD normally only stops the operating system and doesn't destroy data on the disk.

Martina

If a friend has an external

If a friend has an external USB hard drive box that the hard drive can be swapped with they can read the data and copy it you can save your stories.

The only bad question is the one not asked.

The only bad question is the one not asked.

Oye!

I know exactly how you feel. I started using confusers back in the day when there was not automatic and frequent backing up of items you were working on that were part of the program, (you know, the technological Stone age of the 1980s). At the time I worked in an underground military facility where there were massive backup generators. Every month the generators would be tested by shutting down the main power and switching to generator driven power. Naturally none of the facility engineers bothered to inform the Ops Center when they were going to do this. Trust me, there is no feeling worse than seeing lights suddenly flicker and the document you have been working on suddenly disappear from the known universe.

Oye was never my first word of choice.

You have my sympathies.

Nancy Cole

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"You may be what you resolve to be."

T.J. Jackson

Sorry

I'd be sorry too, although 'bloody furious' describes it better.

But it is we, your readers, who should be feeling sorry for you, not the other way round.

PS - my backing-up isn't all it ought to be either.
PPS - the USB HDD caddy is a boon. I am on my second one, having (apparently) worked the first one to death. My new one has both USB and SATA connexions and using the SATA it goes like a train ("chuff chuff as usual").

If it's JUST a blue screen,

If it's JUST a blue screen, you've got about a 98% chance than your information is still there.

You need an external backup of some sort, and some way to boot the machine. The simplest of those are external hard drive or flash drive, and a Linux boot CD (Bart PE can work too, but Knoppix is probably simpler to get and use) Kubuntu or Ubuntu live CD will do it as well.

Just boot, use the file manager to browse to the documents, and start copying to the external.


I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.

File space

It is still there, i.e, the space isn't available, so I have the data in there somewhere. Hey ho; in my arrogance I thought they were good chapters. I can remember the details, just need the words to flow again.

I'd be surprised ...

... if your data weren't still stored safely on the HD. If you can run an operating system from the the CD Rom then you shouldn't have a problem. I don't suppose that, unlike me, you have a floppy drive installed because, if you had, you'd be able to run DOS and access the data fairly easily. One of our machines even has a 51/4" FDD :) I draw the line at 7" drives, cassette or, heaven forbid, punched tape.

Another way would be to remove the HD and install it in a working machine and read it that way. I don't care what you do, just get those chapters posted! ;)

Robi

May I ...

... offer you a virtual hug and a big kiss? Thanks :D

Robi

Indeed

But no tongues, you're married.

Thank you, mate.

Paranoia

I have worked with computers since the 60s. This provides a high degree of paranoia. Currently I have a 1T RAID drive for backup. I also keep additional backup copies on a flash drive. Flash drives now cost around $10 on Amazon. When they’re not mounted on the computer they’re pretty much a foolproof backup. At that cost one should never let one’s creative work be in danger of being lost.

DJ

Slowly does it...

Now performing a steady recovery of the writngs from BCTS using the edit facility, and backing up on a new storage device just in case. I wish now I wasn't quite as productive...

I don't.

You've given me food for thought in your extensive output. I doubt if I'm alone.

Robi

Thank you

I took some advice here, and with an external drive and storage...YAY!!!!!!!! Now, do I modify the existing versions or post the old episodes?

Whichever feels better to

Whichever feels better to you.


I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.

Backing up

Looked at from one angle, BCTS could be regarded as a form of backup itself - at least of the already-posted parts. So, why not download what's already up there?

Penny

Back up

I was already doing so...now I am slowly transferring two hundred-odd chapters to a back up memory!