Don't Insult the Man with the Rope

Several months ago, I had a major disaster occur in the life of any geek.

My primary external hard drive completely died. Not the typical, ‘run TestDisk and recover the partition’ death. Oh, no. It had to be the type of failure that would, if this were a movie, be referred to as epic.

Nothing is recoverable without approximately $700 worth of work at an NYC-based data recovery center. Yeah, this is not going to happen.

That said, however… I just want to give an insight into how bad this is for me, and honestly it is something that is only now beginning to hit hard. I lost every single one of the programs that I so painstakingly have collected and backed up through the years - including all my ISOs for installing Windows and other operating systems. About 20 movies. My primary backup of my music - thankfully that was already on an MP3 player - I think this picture has been painted.

Now, today is the first time that I needed to install one particular program that hasn’t been needed in months.

Guess where it was.