Hard Drive: Final Update

• Initial story how my external hard drive (with 5k picture) failed
• Selection of data recovery company
  
• Result of data recovery: FAIL

After ECO failed, I tried Drive Savers. They too failed.

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So I lost 5k pictures and have almost no hope of recovery.

The good news?

I’m restarting my picture collection, one snap at a time, and I’ll be backing up externally and online this time. Also–I just discovered that for some reason I saved about 250 superbowl pictures on flickr.com!

This is key, as I use these pictures each year to create a giant banner that guests sign at my annual superbowl party. So….there is hope.

I also found about 200 pictures on facebook/myspace, and I remembered that I posted about 1,000 on my old photo album site. So….all is not lost.

Live and learn.