Welp, the GOOD news is . . . .
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It looks like I will be building a new computer.
The motherboard, it seems is better toasted than we had thought. While it boots to BIOS fine upon pulling my CMOS battery there was a nasty burn ring on it, and trying to boot a few different Linux distros from USB returned issues every time, with the system trying to boot in only to start throwing errors and then crashing.
As for my hard drives . . . toasted. We're hoping I can eventually find a few donor drives to try simply replacing the drive boards, since the drives TRY to spin up, but attempting to access them via external USB adaptor on both the desktop and two separate laptops returned nada for any of them.
My power failure, it seems, was worse than I'd thought.
So, what does this mean for me?
Well, for one thing it means that the Backup Fairy has not been kind to me. See, I had recently cleared off the USB drive I typically use to back up all my documents due to needing it for another project and hadn't gotten back around to re-backing things up. As a result, yeah: I've lost months of work both on book editing for PFH and Phoenix Soars as well as my full-resolution covers for them, not to mention every other story file I've ever written. So, with hope those will all eventually be recoverable, but for now? Nope.
For the foreseeable future this lil' laptop will be my only access to the 'net. I'm thankful I've got it at least.
I'm not gonna let this get me down. Instead, I'm gonna focus on what I do have, namely a writing-capable laptop and a lot less distractions given its limitations. I may be indefinitely suspending my work on my other projects (including my music, unfortunately,) but I've got my feelers out on a few jobs that could be good for me, and I've got keyboards to type with.
Bring it on, life. Bring it on.
Melanie E.