A number of IT horror stories have followed me through my career (in IT)..
from the time on my last day (at my first job) I dropped a £12,000 radar display, to a member of my team destroying a dozen servers because they tried to do what they had seen me do a month before... (oh - and formating my F instead of my G drive 2 days before my accounts were due...) but most recently, when I left my laptop out in the rain for three days....
Got home friday evening, put my laptop bag on the shed while I got something out the back of my car... I wasnt at work Monday so it was Tuesday before I went looking for it... accused my wife of hiding it, the dog of eating it, my kid of selling it... went to work figuring I must have left it there... but I hadnt...
My wife found it.. she pulled it out of the bag thinking maybe it had been protected (ha!) ; she tipped it to one side and water poured out...
When I got in I had calmed down. Id been through the "how could I have been so stupid?" phase and was now ready for battle
I downloaded the maintenance whitepapers from the website and stripped the thing all the way down ; motherboard out, the whole shebang. And I left it for a day at room temperature.
The next day I connected the disk drive to my home pc via usb.. and there it was - everything. no complaints, no dataloss
did a total backup, then put laptop back together - and it was fine! I was expecting something but no ; it was A-OK
All I can say about data loss is dont lose hope ; where there is a will there's a way - where where is determination there is a solution
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A number of IT horror stories have followed me through my career (in IT)..
from the time on my last day (at my first job) I dropped a £12,000 radar display, to a member of my team destroying a dozen servers because they tried to do what they had seen me do a month before... (oh - and formating my F instead of my G drive 2 days before my accounts were due...) but most recently, when I left my laptop out in the rain for three days....
Got home friday evening, put my laptop bag on the shed while I got something out the back of my car... I wasnt at work Monday so it was Tuesday before I went looking for it... accused my wife of hiding it, the dog of eating it, my kid of selling it... went to work figuring I must have left it there... but I hadnt...
My wife found it.. she pulled it out of the bag thinking maybe it had been protected (ha!) ; she tipped it to one side and water poured out...
When I got in I had calmed down. Id been through the "how could I have been so stupid?" phase and was now ready for battle
I downloaded the maintenance whitepapers from the website and stripped the thing all the way down ; motherboard out, the whole shebang. And I left it for a day at room temperature.
The next day I connected the disk drive to my home pc via usb.. and there it was - everything. no complaints, no dataloss
did a total backup, then put laptop back together - and it was fine! I was expecting something but no ; it was A-OK
All I can say about data loss is dont lose hope ; where there is a will there's a way - where where is determination there is a solution