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It's official. Mr Maxtor dies.
Whether it was a assembly line gene issue or whether it caught a bug along the way, no one really knows for sure. But it is gone.

My surgeon recovered some files but 97% of them were distorted. The video files turned out a complete blank. Only a handful were alright... and amazingly, they are the images I downloaded for research with Jesus in them. I recall the Jesus saves joke... ;O)

This is a reminder not to hold on to things too dearly in this temporal journey. Life is fleeting as Robin Williams says in Jack. It's also inspiration that I should get my act faster in producing new and wonderful work for my new company.

Farewell my Maxtor. Thanks for the past 6 months!


One of the better images recovered. Maybe I should sell these as abstract photos??? ;p

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.