Hi all,
This will either get left here or moved but I don't give a da*n
For those of you who are at all interested and have been missing me you may have noticed I have been rather absent from these forums.
As well as having to deal with serious illness within my family, 4 to 5 weeks ago I suffered from what I can only describe as a double whammy catastrophe.
To cut a story short I have two PCs my main one and another located a few hundred yards away, its sole purpose was for use as a backup & e-mail's.
Every fortnight almost without exception all data, work in progress/completed was backed up.
Sticking to this method has certainly paid off on many occasions in the past five years.
My road, which is in West London, recently suffered a huge power spike.
Not a problem as I have surge protectors on both PCs and they have been in use without exception since their purchase 3/4 years ago except on the one night 4/5 weeks ago when I needed them to be connected-----to do their job.
For reasons to long and painful here to explain and a shed full of s**t bad luck both PCs were connected without their surge protectors.
The bottom line is I have lost 8 years of intensive research,( including hobbies such as cleaning up versions of Sedona workshop manuals), the hard drives are toast, even the data recovery specialists are surprised at how little they have been able to recover.
I might add I wasn't the only resident to suffer loss.
Of coarse on the scale of things, lots of worse things happen but I feel gutted and arm less.
If there is a lesson to be passed on, it is never use a second PC as back up, PLEASE, PLEASE buy and use a separate external hard drive and fully disconnect it when not in use.
As for the workshop manuals all is not lost-------.
seacam
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Ashley
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