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 — 12-6-2015: All The World’s A Globe …

Well, that was an entertaining Thursday … 

Did I tell you I’d lost an external drive?   Complete with a LOT of backed up media: AND family photos.

Frustrating!   But I’m starting to reconstruct the TV collection: which will be tedious, and expensive.

The photos will be harder.   The fact is … ?   I’m going to a local computer repair shop.

One that’s charging an eye-watering amount of money for data recovery.

But?

But, I got the refund through from Amazon, on Tuesday just gone: and managed to get a 2 terabyte sized internal drive.   A drive I’d originally wanted, to store those lost photos and series.

Waiting for it, yesterday?   Much as I’d love to say it was fun, it wasn’t.   It was VERY frustrating.

‘Cabin Fever’ doesn’t even start to describe how I felt, by the time the delivery man turned up.

I’ve ALSO got enough spare cash to pay the fee the shop wants: or, at least, put down a LARGE deposit.

That means I can start on the slow process of reconstruction.

That’s going to be fun … 

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