catastrophic failure

[Gert van Santen]

Tony Scharf schreef:
> About a week ago, I dropped the USB hard drive that I use to backup my
> main audio system down a flight of stairs.  It was toasted.
> 
> I dont like *not* having a recent backup so yesterday I bought a new
> one.  I booted into knoppix to format it ext3 and make a disk image of
> the main system drive and to do an rsync of the data drive.
> 
> just a tip: when using fdisk, the difference between sda1 and sdb1 is
> pretty significant.  I have no idea why, but with my old drive, it
> always showed up as sda1, but for some reason that was different this
> time.  I partitiond and then proceeded to format my entire data drive.
>   And I have no backup I can locate (I may have some DVD backups in a
> box somewhere that are at least 2 years old).
> 
> So...its gone.  everything.  everything Id been working on. the
> remixes I was working on..some vocal tracks...recorded noodles of the
> cwejman I had gathered and about 20 gb of samples I was working on to
> add to the ampfea sample library.
> 
> I dont even really know how to react at this point.  I feel like i
> have been hit by a train.

Dude, that's a disaster! I hope you can 
somehow find back your stuff. Is there 
no way to recover the old usb drive?

I wish you all the luck you need right now.

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