PC failure

[dr_kromm]

A brief note to friends, colleagues, and others who may give a doodle: The hard drive on my primary PC died on March 6. While the machine is in the shop, I'm relegated to using this very old, rather basic laptop with a bad keyboard. I lack all access to my archived e-mail, I can only correspond via gmail, and I don't even have access to a copy of Word.* I am therefore not very available online . . . or in real life, as I dicker with shops and eventually spend many days rebuilding my work environment. If it's desperately important that you get in touch, try the phone.

Thanks for your patience!

* Those of you who deal with me professionally shouldn't worry: all drafts and notes on drafts are backed up. Nothing valuable was lost except for my time.

Comments

[j-larson.livejournal.com]

There are data recovery firms that can recover most of the contents of a misbehaving drive. They may be quite pricy, though.

[dr-kromm.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes . . . I know. Honestly, though, a few photos of the cat and my video-game settings just aren't worth it. With my work data backed up, the valuable stuff is safe. Really, the rest is more about frustration than finances. More to the point, data recovery is way beyond my means. I edit RPGs, and while that isn't a minimum-wage job, it isn't so much better that I can afford the luxury of data recovery.