Losing my data

That’s me in the corner
That’s me in the spotlight
Losing all my data…

How many times do i have to learn the lesson: don’t use your portable USB drive as your only backup option, even if it does have over 300Gb of space on it. This is the 3rd time in 2 years i’ve had a USB portable drive collapse under the pressure of.. ordinary daily use.

Windows tells me there’s a “read/write error” and suddenly that 160Gb of precious data is unavailable. Corrupt. Vanished. Collections of software, videos, backup data from various work projects.. plus many articles relating to digital literacies and e-learning.

Aaaagh.

Boo.

Time to send the disk off to a data recovery shop?

Reminds me of a double-page spread once featured in the Age Green Guide, where 3 writers told of their dramas with backup, lessons learned, and the software apps they’d decided to trust with their weekly backup shifts. They all recommended apple mac time machine, from memory.

The 4th article said basically, “Don’t worry about it, you’re going to lose all your data at some point, stop hoarding information, and stop being so attached to it.”

After the fact, that 4th article was the most useful with its Zen, non-technical approach.

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Post-script:

The other day my home windows machine refused to boot, so i loaded kubuntu Linux from a USB stick – which worked perfectly. Strangely enough, this operating system could see all the data on that portable USB drive that failed last year. The one that neither windows nor mac could read.

Hooray.

Recovery.

Thanks Ubuntu Linux!!

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