Losing my DRIVE!

Okay, with the title... I couldn't resist.

Lately, technology hasn't been treating me very well. You can say I'm not too happy with it. Even though my life actually depends on technology, I hate it when it fails.

Last week, I was doing some projects and needed to backup some files from my laptop to clear up more space. I plugged in my 2 terabyte hard drive that I had bought in April and it wouldn't show up. It has everything backed up on it. I had planned to organize everything and then back it onto DVDs. Well, that wasn't going to work. IT showed up on my computer as a mass storage device, and every time I tried to initialize it, I'd get a "failed" message.

I was soooooo frustrated and feeling sick to my stomach. So, I brought it into work to see if the Mac would recognize it. Nope. Same thing. Just a USB storage device that needs reformatted! Yikes!

As I was looking at the drive utility, I noticed that my work's computer drive had a red check by it. It was notifying me that it's external hard drive was failing! What? No way!

I called the IT department, and they said I needed to back it up and let them ship it in for replacement. Unfortunately, they didn't have any way of backing it up for me. :(

I went home that night and decided to see how much space I had available on my 1 terabyte that is designated for my media (movies, mp3s, etc). Sure enough I had room. But as I was plugging it in, the usb plug broke on the case. I tried  fixing it.... nope, didn't work. I was so frustrated.

In a nutshell, I found my self to have an un-formatted 2TB external hard drive that needs to be recovered, a 1TB external hard drive that I can't access, and a failing hard drive on my work computer!

Thankfully, tech department was able to let me borrow a SATA usb adapter for my 1TB hard drive, and I was able to back up the files at work. They took my work computer away to send it in, and I'm now working on my personal laptop to get my projects accomplished. I ordered a SATA hard drive case that would take several days to come in. I hope to soon be able to try to recover the files from my 2TB hard drive.


More frustration to come though...........

~Matt