Once I thought I lost the contents my first external hard drive. It was November 16, 2005. I was heart broken. Like no other love I’ve ever had, it was my everything.
Devastated. Distraught. Thinking about that day now, and you reading this, my heart, it still hurts, feels like like a day old punch.
I went to the bar and I got a martini. What the hell else was I supposed to do, I LOST goddamn EVERYTHING?! There was a hole in my heart. And it was bleeding. So I wrote…
#1
now i must write.
today i think i lost my work, my life my story.
my external drive showed up empty.
my brain is very full.
the words i wrote, can not be gone.
i must remember what is lost.
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#2
where what now
here me loud
my story goes untold
a life worth living
a legend will unfold
_________________
#3
life lost.
a legend burried deep within the walls
four of them that hold my life
a broken link holds it togehter
a photo in my mind
it is all remembered.
__________________
Later that day, I decided to take all the cords apart (there were two to connect it to my PC, it was 2006) and put them back together.
It turned back on. I didn’t lose anything. The end.
Lessons learned:
1) Make sure you back up. 2) Drama inspires creativity. 3) I might be rtrd. 🙂
I had a scare like that about a year ago – as a broadcasting student/journalist, all my full stories were on my external, years and years of photos, old stories and essays – wouldn’t turn on. I cried and cried and brought it home to my IT father who said he’d try his best to recover. Turns out, the power cord was friend – not the drive – so we ordered a new one and EVERYTHING WAS STILL THERE! I danced. Then went to the store and bought a bazillion DVD CD’s and backed EVERYTHING important up on CDS. Lesson learned.
I had a scare like that about a year ago – as a broadcasting student/journalist, all my full stories were on my external, years and years of photos, old stories and essays – wouldn’t turn on. I cried and cried and brought it home to my IT father who said he’d try his best to recover. Turns out, the power cord was friend – not the drive – so we ordered a new one and EVERYTHING WAS STILL THERE! I danced. Then went to the store and bought a bazillion DVD CD’s and backed EVERYTHING important up on CDS. Lesson learned.
I had a scare like that about a year ago – as a broadcasting student/journalist, all my full stories were on my external, years and years of photos, old stories and essays – wouldn’t turn on. I cried and cried and brought it home to my IT father who said he’d try his best to recover. Turns out, the power cord was friend – not the drive – so we ordered a new one and EVERYTHING WAS STILL THERE! I danced. Then went to the store and bought a bazillion DVD CD’s and backed EVERYTHING important up on CDS. Lesson learned.
It’s mega scary. I seriously felt like someone passed away. I was completely distraught.
I assume you did you recover your files from that hard drive? If not do you still have it?