A sigh of relief!

I almost had a disaster beyond imagination this week.  In Arizona I decided to pull my laptop out and do some blogging, but I got this message:


Do you know that sickening feeling when you realize you might have just lost all your pictures from Europe and Yellowstone and all the documents you've working on over the last year?  I'm a former IT professional and I know the importance of backing up data.  At work our servers were backed up to three locations every few hours.  I've been meaning to get a back up going on this laptop that I purchased in May 2016, but I'd never quite gotten around to it yet.  I'd also been meaning to transfer the photos to my google drive, but I hadn't gotten around to that either.


The laptop is still under warranty, but I needed to fiddle around with the hard drive myself.  I opened up that laptop (no small feat) took out the hard drive, reseated it, checked the motherboard connection, but still no luck.  Not to worry yet though because I know how to recover data, but only with the right tools.  Amazon to the rescue...I ordered a USB to SATA cable for $11.  I could have taken it to the Geek Squad or something but I can guarantee they would have charged a couple hundred bucks.


It arrived yesterday so I got right to work.  A couple hours later I had success!!  All my data was recovered.  I finally got some sleep last night.

Today the plan is to back it up to a hard drive and then start transferring it all to the Cloud.

Thank goodness for small mirales (and Amazon).

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Yogi♪♪♪ said…
You are amazing!!
I've got everything on the cloud, especially photos.
October 29, 2017 at 12:35 PM
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