The Daily Teaser — 20-6-2015

Drat … 

And … 

Well, there’s several other terms I could be using, here.

But ‘drat’ is about the politest.

All this … ?   Is a result of finding out about my external drive.

It you recall, a couple of week ago, I managed to knock the thing onto the floor: seriously damaging it in the process.

I managed to get the drive out of the external caddy: and down to a local repair shop, in order to see what they could do for me.

£80, later … ?   Their opinion was that the drive was extremely dead.   And that it would cost me a further £300 — £300!!!!!!!!!! — to get the spare parts, and do any kind of repair work that would allow any chance of getting the family photos off the thing.

£300 I don’t have.

Nor do I expect to get hold off: unless I suddenly win the lottery.

As you can imagine, I’m not a happy bunny.   After all, for me, that’s about the same sort of cash I earn in a fortnight.

As you can possibly ALSO imagine … ?   That left me feeling extremely depressed.   Something only remedied by getting to work: which left me feeling a bit better about myself.   At least, turned my mood about.

As of RIGHT now … ?   I’m going to have to put any recovery from the drive on hold: until I can afford to.

Given how important those photos are to me?   I’m going to have to start saving up … 

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The Daily Teaser — 13-6-2015

Now, THAT’S what I call pricey … !

You’ve probably realised I like TV series, every-so-often.   And had stored — had — a lot of them, AND a lot of family photos.

I knocked it off the table, the other  day: and got the clicking sound — known as the click of death* — from the drive.

It was dead.

What I eventually did — after panicking, swearing and frantically looking for clues on the ’Net — was extract the drive: and check it in a spare drive bay on my Mac Pro.   I still got the clicking.

As that is — from what I can see — fatal, I’ve now taken the thing to a local computer repair shop: one that does data recovery.

They tell me it’s going to take about a week to get anything from the drive.

I’m hopeful they will.

About my only issue?   

Is the eye watering price I’m paying for this.   Not something you want to see, when you’re on a budget!

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The Daily Teaser — 10-5-2015

Ye gods, but that’s SOMETHING … 

I told you — yesterday — I’d dropped a terabyte capacity external drive: complete with some 800 gigabytes of media and family photos.

I’m … 

Well, the word ‘unhappy’ is the one that sums it up best.

Or, at least, most politely.

At any rate, I’ve managed to find a local local computer repair place: one that’s happy to try getting what it can off the drive.

I’m thankful I’ve a little cash to at least put down a deposit, there.

Otherwise?   I’d DEFINITELY be onto a losing streak.

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