Good News!!!!!......I just had to tell someone, and you guys are someone...
In case you haven't noticed, I like to take alot of pictures during my adventures in life. Including taking pictures of our 3 year old daughter. During an average 3 day outing at the river I normally come home with between 200 and 300 digital pics. My wife will usually take another 100 or so a month of our daughter.
Over the past few months the wife has been bugging me to back-up the photos on disk just in case the computer took a dump on us. I always said, "Yeah, tomorrow." We'll tomorrow never came and about 4 weeks ago my computer wouldn't boot up. I had the idiots from the "Geek Squad" look at it and they told me my hard-drive was fried and there would be no way to get it to boot up. I eventually sent it out to a "computer specialist" in Southern Orange County who told me the same thing.
At this point I was being told the only way I could recover my 7,000 + pictures was through a "Data Recovery" company. I got several estimates from some recovery companies that came back anywhere between $800 and $2,500 dollars (with no guarantee that all my pics would be recovered). Because almost all the pictures from the first 3 years of our daughters life were on the computer, I was going to roll the dice and pay a recovery company to work on the hard drive.
During passing I was talking to one of the computer tech guys at my work. He said to bring the hard drive in and he could take a look at it for me. I thought "what do I have to loose", and brought it to him. GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!!! He was able to access all the pictures (8,354 to be axact) and they have been recovered. When I called my wife and told her, she actually got choked up and started to cry. She was soooo happy because she thought that we had lost our daughter's baby pictures.
I know this is kinda long winded but I wanted to post this to remind everyone to BACK UP YOUR HARD DRIVES..... I have since bought a new computer and also purchased an externeal hard drive (A 200 GB external drive only cost about a hundred bucks). I now save all my pictures on both the regular computer and the external drive and also back them up on disk once a month....
I'm back in business guys, the River918 pictures can begin flowing again. ....... :crossx: :crossx: :crossx: :crossx:
Oh yeah; F- BEST BUY and The GEEK SQUAD!!!!!