Refractor Productions

…often go awry.

Well, so much for the progress I was making on the back logged convention photos.  Today when I came from work, my system hard drive started knocking. Mechanical failure, lovely. If it were just a pooched windows install, or other software issue, not a problem. I’ve been working with computers long enough that I’m decent enough at recovering the data most of the time anyway. However, this time it’s hardware that’s failed. This is beyond me, I don’t have the tools to fix something like that. I call up Ontrack (a data recovery specialist we use at work), they give me a ball park figure of $500 to $2500 to get it back – MAYBE. Since this is a mechanical failure, it’s going to be on the higher end of that quote.

So, the question is. do I say forget it about it, move on (at least the photos on it were backed up elsewhere) or try and scrape up the $$$ for it?

Anyway, right now I’m simply working off a ubuntu live cd. I’m not going to rebuild anything for a while. I’m too ?@!#@ sick of computers currently.