[Leica] probably your worse case nightmare! :-(

[ekowaleski at twmi.rr.com (Ed Kowaleski)]

Ted, as other have told you, all may not be lost.

About four years ago my Hard Drive crashed with about 20 gigs of images. 
Some was backed up, some not,  but I took to the local "Best Buy" store that 
had a "Geek Squad" and they recovered about 10 DVDs worth of images and text 
for me. Cost was around $100.

Ed Kowaleski

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 6:41 PM
Subject: [Leica] probably your worse case nightmare! :-(


> Howdy folks,
> I know some of you have experienced the total utter anguish of loss when a 
> hard drive crashes and burns taking everyone with it!
>
> My main PHOTO  hard-drive crashed in big flames taking about three months 
> of careful prepared material, photo editing, writing, scanning each photo 
> and all the other aspects of producing a new photography book on the life 
> and times of the old guy. One can only say.... "What the hell that'll 
> teach you not to back-up every single moment!"  The truth? Well I did some 
> of it. Please note...."some of it." :-(
>
> The only reason I'm telling you? I have to tell someone or slash my wrists 
> or cut my throat and at the moment I thought telling someone was the 
> better of the options! :-)
>
> Besides I can't do it right now because we begin heavy duty production on 
> the BRAVO TV documentary tomorrow on my wild wild life as a 
> photojournalist. And I didn't want to disappoint you in seeing and hearing 
> the tales of my wild and sordid life. ;-)
>
> By now I'm sort of over the gut wrenching crying anguish of yesterday. It 
> also seems the only way to correct the computer situation completely is 
> dump the whole thing and go new, right now this is a sort of hatched 
> together machine. Another thing I need not face at the moment, re-loading 
> everything! I of course being a photographer and not a techie will not be 
> involved in doing any of this make over.
>
> I leave for as far away as possible as I do not want to see any of this 
> resurrection! When everything is ready to rock and roll in it's complete 
> simplicity of operation... slightly above "moron operator" state I shall 
> sit before it and start again.
>
> Mean while I'll begin the search for slides & negs for re-scanning, along 
> with prints to flatbed scan.
>
> Sorry if this put you off your feed, but thank you for being there as crew 
> to listen. As you've helped make me feel better and now I'll put the 
> straight razor away! ;-) Best part?
>
> Nobody died... I was close!:-(  But all, well most of it, will rise again 
> complete with an incredible lesson learned! BACK-UP EVERY MOMENT! No 
> haranguing please, I've had all I can take at the moment! As she who must 
> be obeyed has beat all of you to it and better. :-) Oh geeeeesh the woman 
> hasn't helped one iota!:-) But what the hell I still love her. :-)
>
> ted
>
>
>
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