OH F***********************ITY

[RosieGirl]

Sorry about the shouting, two of my long term mindees left for Australia nearly 5 weeks ago, leaving me with a bit of extra time, so I have been working like mad on my new laptop my husband bought me for Xmas, to try and help me with my business, (really to stop me having to fight with my 2 DD's over computer time) it had hardly been used, a friend kindly sorted out wireless, so I could look at mumsnet do more work during the day. I had re-done all my policies, risk-assesments, procedures, updated all the learning journey's, new parent contact books, tonnes of bloody work and it crashed. I have been told today that the hard-drive is dead as a dodo, and they can't save anything , DH has been brilliantly sympathetic with a "well didn't you back it up then!!!!!", and I am due an inspection soon, and have possibly got some new business on the way, so will have to start over again. I didn't realise how much work I had done on it untill now. I am now back to fighting DD over computer time (who will die without facebook).

No advice needed (apart from remembering to back up next time) just needed to vent.

Thank you

Thank you for the timely reminder. I have loads of vital stuff about DD's statutory assessment on my laptop. Will back it all up now.

Sorry to hear about what happened to you. Hope you can remember most of it as you retype.

Only advice I can give you is to tell your DD you are using the laptop and that is that. Work trumps facebook.

oh poo bums

much sympathy x x x

Do all your work in a Dropbox - completely transparent, free (for 2GB), will save your life - next time

Thanks all - Mr Anchovy I have just watched the video and it looks really useful, when I get my newly repaired laptop back, I will definately look into using it.

Is there definitely no way the data can be recovered? It can be pricy but specialist computer places can sometimes do it.

As it is under the manufacturers ?sp guarantee, if I get anyone else to look at it will imdemnify the guarantee, the computer expert at the shop, spent all day trying to do it to save it having to go to be "wiped" but couldn't, they were very apologetic, probably saw the desperate look in my eyes.

Agree with Missus. There is a computer place down the street from me who have saved loads of info from my laptop that crashed. They are used to recovering data from police computers...etc. and do a really thorough job even when other computer repair people say it's all "gone". Where are you?

Rosie my mother board went last year, it had to be wiped but amazingly there was LOADS of stuff still there

Don't give up all hope - when will you get it back??

sympathy with you OP! This household now uses dropbox for all important info as a back up. IT is amazingly simple (i use it)

Can you hook the hard drive up to your other computer, access the memory through one of your USB ports? The computer store sells those gizmos (very technical term!!! ). I used it for a laptop that broken. Was easy enough to do myself!

Stuff can ALWAYS be recovered.
I know this for a fact as a police collegue of DH's explained how they retrieve things on computers in Paedophile cases.

You just need to phone a few places and explain, it will usually be a young nerdy/techy 16 yr old who will be able to help!

I will agree that stuff can be recovered.
Its rare for everything to be lost.
When one of my children very helpfully (not) dropped my laptop it maffed the harddrive and I was in tears - it had a whole years work on for uni, plus all my minding stuff, ECaT, drop in and loads more besides inlcuding personal stuff.
I was beside myself. Thankfully I had backed some of it (note to self - back up PC today - thank you for the reminder).

The techy kid at the shop (looked at 12yrs old) wasn't hopeful at all but he done a fab job and recovered about 50% of stuff - mainly coursework thank god - I could live without the other stuff, replaced the hard drive and uploaded a newer version of Windows for me for about £100 all within 24 hours.

I physically did sling my arms around him and planted a smacker of a kiss on his cheek and cried like a baby - in the shop. My kids were mortified but i was elated.

Thank you all for your advice and kind words - its already gone away, so nothing I can do now, I will hold off starting everything from scratch in the hope something may be saved.

It really made me realise how much I rely on my computer now, and there should be courses for those who have a little knowledge as they are more dangerous than beginners

I keep a memory card in my PC, and save everything onto that as I finish each bit of work, at the end I then back up onto a external hard drive too.

Each month when I do my accounts, I back up onto both memory card and external, everything on my work file, after a while it becomes automatic to do it.

Can you tell I lost loads of work to once?

You have my sympathies.