In this digital age, we rarely print pics, but take lots. We found that they were taking way too much space on the computers, we bought a 1T external hard drive about 2 years ago. I put every picture we had ever taken on there, then promptly deleted them from the computers. I have continued to do the same every since.
So, Friday I plugged in the drive to get together some baby pics of Dani (she's 6) for Kindergarten graduation. The light came on the drive but I couldn't access the files. I took it to a data recovery place hoping it was simple.
No such luck! I fould out today that it has spindle seizure (meaning the drive can't turn). It has to be sent to a specialist, and if the files can be recovered, this process will cost $750-$1200! This is all the pics of all 4 of my kids, family vacations, etc. I can't stand the thought of losing all my pics. If anything is saved, I have been told in the future to back everything up 3 times. I feel absolutely sick.
A word of advice: make sure to back up those important files! I never thought this could happen to me.
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