I shot quite a few photos at my cousin Anne’s wedding. The next night, I downloaded them to my brand new MacBook Pro’s hard drive, and showed them to people. A few shots were good, most were decent. (A few terrible ones; I wasn’t working the manual focus correctly!)
I flew home, worked on the photos a bit, and then took my laptop with me to the Bookstore. While I was there, I turned it on … and it wouldn’t boot. Ultimately, the Apple Store told me the drive was irretrievably lost. And so were the pictures.
Fortunately, I hadn’t taken very many photos with my digicam since the day of the wedding. I downloaded TouchStoneSoftware’s UndeletePlus program and ran it on the CompactFlash card I used… and it worked! It recovered the images you see here (plus a few more that weren’t very good).
I’m already pretty good about backing up data (thanks to Mozy), but I hadn’t set it up on my MacBook. And it’s a good thing I have been using Mozy. Because then the (also new) media hard drive on my desktop died!
This failure is, to be honest, much more damaging, because that drive contained the music collection I’ve been building since high school. More than 30 gigabytes of music (I’m not positive the exact number, to be honest it’s probably closer to 40) up in, well, smoke.
Yeesh.
I’ll be RMAing it back to NewEgg. (And not buying any Samsung hard drives for a couple years!) But the damage it’s caused me is probably irreparable. On the upside, I’ve found a few songs in random places, including the small MP3 player Rob gave me, and my GPS.