ALiFe

It's been past a week now. My Maxtor external Hard Disk has been in a coma and have not shown signs of hope. I've got approximately 700GB worth of work in there. Basically, my livelihood... imagine all my photos... YES... ALL my photos! And my previously assigned projects... think of all the art work over the years... all the video clips... ALL.

It's still with a friend who's trying to resuscitate the 1 terabyte drive. It's been three days under intensive care, and it's been fighting hard for it's life! The first two days was past to a specialist who didn't know what was going on, except that there was a problem...?! Tonight at 7pm Singapore time, pray for the poor little unit as we seek the last resort of treatment before we pull the plug. We will attempt to freeze the drive, but of course we'd have to place silica gel in a zip lock bag with the drives as condensation will take place as soon as it's taken out of the freezer. This unorthodox method of reviving loss data has been proven to work. Only in time will we find out the fate of the drive.

Things I've learnt:
1. Don't buy a Maxtor.
2. Don't buy a Seagate. They're the same company.
3. Switch off all external hard disk drives when not in use.
4. Back-up your back-ups.