My computer has been declared officially dead, 5:45 PM Feb. 22nd of 2009.
Cause of death: hard drive (mechanical) failure, resulting from chronic hardware problems.
chance of (data) recovery: none. unless I fork over hundreds to some nameless third party. (and who can afford to do that during the current recession? really?)
screw them.
I didn't think losing all of the thousands of music files (including irreplaceable recordings I won't find on the internet, or elsewhere), photos, picture files (including gifts and works I've slaved over for hours), documents (that, though trivial, were priceless to me), and who knows what else....I didn't