[Leica] probably your worse case nightmare! :-(

[kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)]

Ted,

You may be surprised -very surprised- at what can be recovered from that
drive.  That is one reason when we discard a PC or give it to charity, we
physically destroy the HD (and put in a new one in the charity case).
"Physically destroy" means a sledgehammer and lots of little pieces.  In our
case, all sensitive data is supposed to be protected at the server level,
but there is always Murphy's law lurking around.  I have one client whose
laptop HD bit it.  $1,800 and a professional recovery service later he had
it all back.  Don't give up easily.

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-
> bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Ted Grant
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 5:42 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: [Leica] probably your worse case nightmare! :-(
> 
> Howdy folks,
> I know some of you have experienced the total utter anguish of loss when a
> hard drive crashes and burns taking everyone with it!
> 
> My main PHOTO  hard-drive crashed in big flames taking about three months
> of
> careful prepared material, photo editing, writing, scanning each photo and
> all the other aspects of producing a new photography book on the life and
> times of the old guy. One can only say.... "What the hell that'll teach
> you
> not to back-up every single moment!"  The truth? Well I did some of it.
> Please note...."some of it." :-(
> 
> The only reason I'm telling you? I have to tell someone or slash my wrists
> or cut my throat and at the moment I thought telling someone was the
> better
> of the options! :-)
> 
> Besides I can't do it right now because we begin heavy duty production on
> the BRAVO TV documentary tomorrow on my wild wild life as a
> photojournalist.
> And I didn't want to disappoint you in seeing and hearing the tales of my
> wild and sordid life. ;-)
> 
> By now I'm sort of over the gut wrenching crying anguish of yesterday. It
> also seems the only way to correct the computer situation completely is
> dump
> the whole thing and go new, right now this is a sort of hatched together
> machine. Another thing I need not face at the moment, re-loading
> everything!
> I of course being a photographer and not a techie will not be involved in
> doing any of this make over.
> 
> I leave for as far away as possible as I do not want to see any of this
> resurrection! When everything is ready to rock and roll in it's complete
> simplicity of operation... slightly above "moron operator" state I shall
> sit
> before it and start again.
> 
> Mean while I'll begin the search for slides & negs for re-scanning, along
> with prints to flatbed scan.
> 
> Sorry if this put you off your feed, but thank you for being there as crew
> to listen. As you've helped make me feel better and now I'll put the
> straight razor away! ;-) Best part?
> 
> Nobody died... I was close!:-(  But all, well most of it, will rise again
> complete with an incredible lesson learned! BACK-UP EVERY MOMENT! No
> haranguing please, I've had all I can take at the moment! As she who must
> be
> obeyed has beat all of you to it and better. :-) Oh geeeeesh the woman
> hasn't helped one iota!:-) But what the hell I still love her. :-)
> 
> ted
> 
> 
> 
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