I knocked over one of my speakers today and when it hit the floor it obviously gave the hard drives in my Computer a shock because they decided to freeze. On rebooting the machine crashed, a little SATA cable wiggling and another reboot and everything was fine - or was it?
For the second time in the history of nemo I’ve managed to lose a whole collection of music. Last time my hard drive finally failed and I hadn’t backed up. This time it seems windows ckdsk managed to orphan my whole music folder and all it’s sub-folders. In other words I opened up foobar to get the music going only to be told ‘error - file not found’ for every single track. A quick browse of drive H, no ‘Music’ folder. Crap!
For the second time in nemo history though I have been brought back from the brink of of the abyss (no music is a harrowing experience for me) by GetBackData. This nifty little app will recover not only data you chucked in your wastebin but stuff that has vanished in a system crash. First time around it was able to retrieve some data for me, but the hard drive was definitely in bad shape already. This time however I’m hopeful of recovering a great deal more of my music collection. If I do, it’s going to take an awfully long time to sort it out - it’s been shoved into hundreds of folders with what look like hashes for names. Oh happy happy joy joy.
