Mom throws out my rig in 2015 because I'm a neet loser

>mom throws out my rig in 2015 because I'm a neet loser
>become semi homeless couch surfer
>get a shitty laptop with no memory & an external hdd
>all I have left
>use it for everything for 3 years, saving all my precious pictures, video, files on it
>all I did was wageslave and then come "home" to a 2gb ram laptop and my hdd
>put everything I loved on it, this was my life for 3 straight years
>two days away from moving into my own room and hopefully getting a new computer so I don't have my life on precarious external hdd & slow laptop
>dropped the external hdd two days ago
>its beeping & wont read
>have a heart attack
>open it up desperately hoping its the header
>header stuck on platter, momentary relief
>carefully put it back in place
>it reads again, I see all my folders
>relief, but I didn't take the chance to transfer anything since I thought I fixed it and it was just stuck
>it starts clicking
>stupid chink shit plastic parkbay thing chewed up the heads
>get quoted £500 for recovery
>dead broke
>still a neet loser

all my precious things, everything I loved lost, I literally have nothing now, I thought I could get over this but I can't I just put the drive away hoping I can afford to get it recovered down the line, 3 years of my soul down the drain

I know to back up, I always did in the past, but I literally had no option as this was my only storage device, and to lose it days before I finally had a room is so bitter

It's exhausting being poor and concurrently dumb

> It's exhausting being poor and concurrently dumb
there's nothing dumb about that. it's happened to everyone at some point or other. just one of those accidents in life. just keep the drive preciously in some spot until you can afford to repair it is all I can say.

I even failed I meant to write dumb > poor

holy shit being at being a brainlet, the ride never ends

>holy shit being at being a brainlet, the ride never ends

You make me feel better about my own life

I could make you feel real good if I recounted the indignities suffered these past years, but ive blogposted enough here

cant wait just to get INTERNAL drives and finally a new desktop

OH WAIT !

>it's literally the worst time in human history to build a rig

brendanfraser.jpg (I dont have any reaction images sorry)

Surrender to the botnet and use a cloud service.

Could you even afford a Thinkpad X40 at this point?

Imbecile.
1. Backups
2. ddrescue *immediately* any disk that fails. "Fixed it"... you moron.

Where would he backup if he only had one drive?

Aside from the previously mentioned cloud services.

great points I'll keep that in mind next time Im born with an IQ +1SD above retarded - I KNOW to backup, I didnt realise I had a limited chance to recover my files the first time it read, Ive been beating myself up over this for 20 hours now

just thank god you arent me

I plan on getting a thinkpad only after I have a desktop

If only you made a cloud backup.

all hope seems lost now and losing your data is one of the worse feels but once you start a new collection on a new drive desu youll soon forget about all your old files. Best bet is to just keep the drive and get it recovered in a year or so you could literally skip out on lunch or something everyday to get the money saved. If you can find the same drive cheap somewhere you could try a platter swap depends if the heads fucked up your platters though but might be worth it as a new drive will be way cheaper than 500 usd

Let me guess, you lost 3 years of sadfrog.jpgs and torrented animu e porn? Boohoo. Nothing on a drive is really fucking important unless they're personal projects that will earn you money, or photos of your loved ones.

This is a blessing in disguise. Sounds like you need to stop being such a leeching faggot and do something productive (profitable) with your time. Take this as a positive event and make some changes in your life.

Nigga use the cloud. Mega gives 50gb free

On another drive.

No it's not, it's a bad time to buy a GPU, nothing else.

Get a comfy 5.5 screen Android phone, use huge sdcard + gdrive/mega/Dropbox, install mixplorer to access all those clouds... WIN FOR LIFE
Sorry for your lost but you didn't keep up with technology, and late movers always lose out

You're fine as long as you don't buy ram or GPUs. SSDs are kind of weird as well, but they didn't fucking bubble, they just stagnated longer than they should have, and you're probably not looking to get one anyway.

>>open it up desperately hoping its the header
>>header stuck on platter, momentary relief
>>carefully put it back in place
opening a HDD, what a great idea!

>what is reading

Well it worked for him, didn't it? He'd have been perfectly fine if only he backed it up immediately after "fixing" it.
HDDs are commonly known to be ticking time bombs of failure, I don't see why you would assume you're fine after it failed once.

Something similar happened to me.

I've just wrapped that drive in bubble wrap and stored it safely.

I know data is still there.

One day if things get better I'll get the data professionally recovered. Also got drive that is exactly the same but in working order if some parts will be needed during recovery process.

He introduced at least a couple of specs of dust, so backing up the whole harddrive would have meant the heads would inevitably hit one of the dust specs and shred themselves.

>hit one of the dust specs and shred themselves

>mom throws out my rig in 2015 because I'm a neet loser
kek, what a bitch

nand is still overpriced
so is ram
motherboards are starting to go back to decent vrm cooling though

He was probably being an entitled little autist and deserved it.

op here, these guys are absolutely correct, I need to let it go and realise the reason Im in this mess of having my life on a shitty drive is because im a weak, lazy, entitled kid

gonna clean up my act, called my mom and going back to school - fuck this

good for you man, best of luck

>brendanfraser.jpg (I dont have any reaction images sorry)
this somehow makes is real

Sucks, but the internet full of porn is still there.

Get some money and buy more redundant storage & automatic backups soon to not loose your stuff again.