psk4363
8th of June 2005 (Wed), 01:06
All was going well when I was in that sweet stage of planning and researching to buy something - a new 64 bit PC. Then, as usual, the bad things started and as they come in threes here they are: -
a) money to spend on upgrade had to be diverted elsewhere - no shiny new 64 bit system :cry: ,
b) only had enough left to upgrade the existing hard drive :cry: :cry: - so I went and bought another, faster one, which doubled my capacity :( .
c) installed the new hard drive as my main one with my original as the slave and then in a moment of complete unthinking madness formatted the whole lot :cry: :cry: :cry: and I'd forgot to back up the RAW images to DVD taken over the last 2 months :oops: :cry: :oops: :cry: .
The only saving grace is that I'm not a pro and I've not been able to do some paid portraits or weddings for 5 months when I broke my leg. But all the images of the seabird colonies on the Farne Islands taken 6 weks ago have gone up in the ether!
Moral of the story - back up, back up, oh and of course BACK UP YOUR IMAGES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. I've certianly learned my lesson!
Just thought I'd share.
Barry :o :cry: :oops:
a) money to spend on upgrade had to be diverted elsewhere - no shiny new 64 bit system :cry: ,
b) only had enough left to upgrade the existing hard drive :cry: :cry: - so I went and bought another, faster one, which doubled my capacity :( .
c) installed the new hard drive as my main one with my original as the slave and then in a moment of complete unthinking madness formatted the whole lot :cry: :cry: :cry: and I'd forgot to back up the RAW images to DVD taken over the last 2 months :oops: :cry: :oops: :cry: .
The only saving grace is that I'm not a pro and I've not been able to do some paid portraits or weddings for 5 months when I broke my leg. But all the images of the seabird colonies on the Farne Islands taken 6 weks ago have gone up in the ether!
Moral of the story - back up, back up, oh and of course BACK UP YOUR IMAGES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. I've certianly learned my lesson!
Just thought I'd share.
Barry :o :cry: :oops: