01 February 2010
On multiple occasions I have had a computer hard drive crash…typically when it is least convenient. I’ve lost family vacation photos, digital music, and important personal documents. I have never backed up a hard drive, but now that I know Norton offers a simple solution I’m going to look into backing up all of the information I should have backed up a long time ago!
27 January 2010
High school graduation: age 18: year: 2004: graduation present: a brand new laptop.
This day will always be one of the most memorable days of my life, not because I achieved my first real rite of passage by graduating high school, but because this would mark the next four years of Data-Loss misery.
During my time in college I got repeatedly “punked” as my hard drive crashed three times, I had to get a new motherboard (which to date I still think is something that has to do with aliens), had to get a new power cord, and my computer screen completely zonked out. Each time resulted in serious data loss from demolished hard drives and computer technicalities.
I have lost everything from pictures from my time in Italy, to my senior thesis, to thousands of dollars in iTunes music, to job applications, all because of this con-artist of a laptop that kept crashing and so too my entire virtual life. These experiences jaded my relationship with computers. After the fourth hard drive crash over a year ago I tried for months to get somebody that could get the information off my computer without success. I know in this digital age computers are still essential to everyday life, and yes I do have a work laptop, but still have not nor do I plan to buy my own personal computer until I can find a program that ensures I will not lose more time, money, and memories due to unnecessary data-loss.
I wish somebody or something would have been able to “save my bacon,” because time after time all my data got was a one way ticket to the butcher shop.
