Dr Danica Radovanović je viša savetnica za internet tehnologije, digitalnu pismenost i inkluziju. Viša je savetnica za društvene inovacije i istraživanje na Univerzitetu u Oslu. Takođe, stručnjak je za razvojne politike pri institute PRIO, i članica je IEEE za digitalnu inkluziju. Više:
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I’m so so so sorry, hope there is a way to get your data back. You should try with those Taiwan folks. Ha? I’m using Mozy(.com) for backing up all my files and it works just fine.
Good luck dear Danica, fingers crossed :O
Danijel, thank you for kind words, but this is similar to Dropbox. Unfortunately, didn’t backed it up on time…
I know, I’m also using Dropbox (Basic edition) but just for the smaller and temporary things. Mozy is cool because it’s unlimited for just $4.95 a month. But never mind, I’m not even trying to promote them or something, just saying how it works in my case.
Good luck one more time and thank you a lot for following me on Twitter, appreciate it :*
If the disk can be made to respond at all on a PC (i.e. the BIOS shows a disk is present), a geek with a copy of SpinRight might be able to recover some of the data – SpinRight does not rely on any operating system to mediate the disk. Big „if“ though – all the evidence suggests it won’t work.
Sorry not to have any magic this time. Need a new wand.
Oh dear, so sorry to hear about your HDD crash! Just shows we so easily forget how dependent we are on the ‘hidden’ devices. Amazing how much of our lives is ‘stored electronically.
I have just bought another computer and as a first act copied all data from my laptop to it!
I am glad you are being philosophical about it all. may be clear-out will make your next stage of work much more focused and based on what you know now rather than reflecting the journey that brought you to this point.
All the very best and keep on writing.
Bear with you. Store online, backup, just copy and copy and burn and burn. At least you’ll have something…
Simon, as I wrote in the post BIOS didn’t show the signs of HDD, and the technician announced it is dead after testing it on some external machine. I don’t see how the data could be recovered from the dead piece of hardware.
Lily, thank you for your nice wishes. Not sure that being philosophic (in life) now helps, but it seems I’m slowly getting back where I should be.
Writing and projects will need some time to be resumed. Sigh. Nice feeling starting with everything new though.
Don’t forget to back up!
Luka – we all say that to ourselves but sometimes it just slip away, and things just happen. Day 2 installing + browsing data from a month ago, yes.
Dear Danica,
Sorry to hear for your HDD failure. That is something everybody involved with digital technologies must face with. Digital Preservation is getting in importance rapidly, as digital content expands, and as your personal example showed.
Our library suffered major blow a month ago, when hosting company somehow erased our online content (over 5 gigs). We managed to retrieve 95% of it, but lost days and weeks of our time, putting aside our current duties. So I know what is your situation and how you feel.
It is quite „impossible“ to manage regular backups of our everyday work, as many use their laptops as a full-working-office. Not to mention working on a laptop, home and office desktop at the same time, as in my case. It is a nightmare! Maybe you should place as much of your work online – for the start use Gmail or some other service for messaging – in that way HDD failures will not affect your correspondence (that is, for the time that online service exists).
Keep on going! I’m sure that you will manage this situation also.
Thank you Bogdan for encouraging words.
I’m sorry your library had data crash – that IS the huge loss for the library material. Maybe a dedicated server for backing up on daily basis would help in the future.
For individuals, I agree with you, it is difficult since there is a working flow on something and you usually keep on hibernation until the next day…Gmail, Dropbox…