Disastrous Drive Crash to Report!

Quick post tonight, as I've been busy most of the day trying to recover my files after my "D" Drive crashed. Believe it or not, it's my first ever drive crash. The drive was OK, just inaccesible and I had to use a file recovery program to recover most of the files. Unfortunately I had masses of stuff on there, and only this morning I was pondering backing it all up to dvd.

Well, I got most of it back, and some of what was lost I can get again, but there was stuff that was virtually irreplacable, for instance I finally had a backup copy of The Beyond album "Crawl", which I have on vinyl, but as I haven't had a record player for years, wasn't much use to me. I only recently manged to acquire an audio copy with great difficulty, I might never be able to replace that, and other stuff too.

So, I had to reformat the drive and accept the inevitable. I'll just take it as a sign to be more cautious in future, as I had assumed (reasonably enough, I thought) that if a drive was to go, it would be the "C" Drive, because it has the system files on it, and those are the ones you expect to get damaged. Well, it just goes to show you, you can never be to complacent!