I really am at a loss for words right now. Nate and I just found out that we have lost the last 5 years of photos (besides what little backed up from my phone,and computer and what is on our blog, FB or instagram)... Let me back up to explain how and why..... honestly this post is more for myself to remember why we have such a big gap in decent posts.
About a month before moving into our apartment we bought an external hard drive to replace Nate's and my personal one (they were getting old, corrupted and full of photos) .We transferred the photos and music ect to the external hard drive , cleaned the computer of unneeded files and bam it was working better! Yay!
So Photo files were backed up on the external and on the computer at this point. All was good or so we thought.
bumm bumm bumm
External hard drive takes a 6 foot fall from the bunk bed it was stored on and stops working.
Fast forward to the week of the move and the computer started fritzing out as I was editing photos for a client. Turned it off for a few hours once I had the last photo edited. Nate came home and went to check it out and even more issues... eventually it wouldn't even turn on.
After getting moved we took the hard drive and computer to a friend from church who repair computers after a week of him trying the news wasn't good. Desktop was fried, power supply gone, mother board gone, the hard drive still readable so he was transferring all the data over and it too died. So the data is there just has to be specialty read in a clean room at an advanced lab. External drive he couldn't look at because it too was an internal issue.
Sent drives to a clean lab for assessment and quote for fixing, both are readable but we are looking at $3000 total for both. Had drives sent back so we can save up to have them fixed later when we have the money.
So starting new. new computer, new external, bought cd/dvds to back everything. Now looking to find our software disks.
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