So I get this call from my girlfriend at lunch time today saying
"I was using your computer and something went wrong"..
"oh" I asked "and what is that...? "
"I was trying to update windows explorer and it went wrong....I tried to do a recovery and I click the wrong button, and it started to reformat"
We have a compaq with the recovery disk installed...to make "fixing your computer" easy.
I rushed home and got the computer working, but for some reason NONE of my *** was there....no programmes...no games...no saved games and more importantly....ALL of my drawings are GONE!....and yes I am a dumb ass and NOTHING was backed up....nothing...I am a ***.
As you might be able to appreciate I am a little down about it all...I maybe have like two of my car drawings on a USB drive somewhere...I hope but its all gone.
I was informed by a guy at work it might be savable but I dont know how....if anyone has any suggestions on possible solutions I would very much like to hear them..
Or even if you just want to tell me how stupid I am from not backing up my files please feel free.
I am doing a good job at not being pissed off with Christine, it aint her fault I aint got backups!
Ouch! Sorry to hear that Pommy!
A similar thing happened to me several years ago right in the middle of a large project. Lost about twenty illustrations that I just ended up redrawing (worked a lot of late nights on that one). I started using external drives for all my work at the point. I use two large ones (300 gig) on this one machine. One for art and one to back that up.
When that happened to me, I do remember seeing some down-loadable programs that claimed to recover stuff even after a reformat. Never tried those myself... maybe all is not lost.
You do have my sympathies,
Rob
Ouch! Sorry to hear that Pommy! A similar thing happened to me several years ago right in the middle of a large project. Lost about twenty illustrations that I just ended up redrawing (worked a lot of late nights on that one). I started using external drives for all my work at the point. I use two large ones (300 gig) on this one machine. One for art and one to back that up. When that happened to me, I do remember seeing some down-loadable programs that claimed to recover stuff even after a reformat. Never tried those myself... maybe all is not lost. You do have my sympathies, Rob http://community.coreldraw.com/forums/p/6376/23103.aspx#23103