PC Death... my apologies :/

My PC died utterly last night. My friend had built it for me with a RAID5 Setup, which ate itself last night, literally. My BIOS doesn't even detect the drives, only my old backup drive. So today I'm going to go out and install a new hard drive and install windows on that... that's the good news.

The bad news is that all of my commission work, my digital files are as of now, considered lost. It means to me that I've lost up to 15 years worth of work I had scanned in, all of my reference (morgue) files...

So I wont know how much I've lost or not lost until my friend gets back from the East Coast on the 22nd.

This does NOT affect TA's commission, or anyone elses commissions that are in the works.

Fallen Skye, I've lost your files (for now)... I have the prints of your first piece, but will wait until the machine is revived to hopefully get back Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend for you. I will send that one seperately to your address at no extra cost.

I am currently on my MAC laptop, and painting Rowr's commission.

Commissions will not stop, things are just a bit up in the air as of currently.

Thanks for your patience everyone.

D:

<_ _> Sayterra that's terrible <;_;> i'm so sorry to hear that.

Something I'm doing as a "Just in case" measure that may help you - I'm using a 500mb flash drive to store my artwork. Not the stuff that's just scans mind you - but stuff that's digital work that literally only exists in the computer >.<

I know that doesn't help you this minute though <_ _>

:'( That really stinks, Sayt and I'm so sorry to hear that. Best of luck to you with your new hard drive.

BAS

ouchie .....no worries Say, take all the time you need.~

That...........Sux.............. !

As I said very eloquently on the SG boards:



So Sorry Goat Lady

that sucks.

Sorry to hear that With Raid5, if only one drive failed, you should be reasonably okay and recover most of your stuff. And nice avatar.

There should be a way to recover the files, but it will likely cost. When I had an HD meltdown that ate all my music, there was a program called R TT (i think) that I used and it found everything on the hard drive even stuff I never knew was on the drive and every time i had moved and re named files.

It MAY work, even though my comptuer keeps asking me if I want to format the drive, I was still able to recover it. I'd hate to see it all be gone gone.

Why're you apologizing to us, Say? It should be us offering our condolences. I doubt anyone will be miffed that you lost the artwork even though you took plenty of steps to protect it.

But to back up what Sagittary said, if you're in a RAID5 array and you didn't lose all of the drives (highly unlikely), you should be able to recover your stuff.

ARGH! So sorry Sayterra. I know that feeling all too well. I still have my old dead HD behind me, mocking me with all the old artwork I can never recover. Dang hard dricve crashes!

Thanks everyone. I'm not a technophile in the least. All I know is that the Raid Drivers are supposedly the ones that caused the problem, and that as of now, they've eaten themselves utterly due to whatever reason they did such. Computers and I have a love and hate relationship. I'll let folks know how things turn out as the develop. After I finish up with Rowr's painting, I'll try to load my scanner onto my laptop so I can scan at least with this machine.

Again thanks for all the advice and support. You guys are great

sorry to hear that. I remember when my HD got messed up and I had to replace it 6 months after I bought my computer. hope everything turns out fine for you.