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[mrs_herbert_2002]

Don't want to get in trouble or do anything wrong to get banned but has lost almost all my embroidery files.
First bought a 160 gb removable hard drive- spent almost 3 weeks doing nothing but organizing files (moved some from floppies that i deleted) and it died-wont even turn on -at 7 in morning amazing that at 12:01 that morning the contract with the company I bought it from & the maker of the hard drive expired. So spent $170 on something I had for 3 weeks that is useless. All info on hard drive is gone. A 140 gb worth of info about 25 gb of embroidery files.
2nd-was moving all my embroidery files from main computer to back up cd when lost power and all my embroidery files (a whole cd) were lost-usually back up once a week but life got in the way LOL-and hadn't backed up files in a couple weeks
3rd - with 6 people in family (4 of them kids) this wont be a strange problem. LOL-my computer died -couldnt reset display properties & the pic I had that was about 1/2 of size of display kept getting bigger and bigger (every time the computer was turned on) until part of the picture was off the screen. This was only if the puter actually turned on -took about 4 tries to get the puter to go past the f1 & f10 screen the one before windows even begins to start (the you have a major problem screen and are going to spend hours redoing your computer LOL)-so had to totally reboot computer to orginal settings (day 1 that we bought computer)but since the last 2 problems and the diffculty of getting puter to work didnt have that many embroidery files to lose this time-errrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Did have my own computer (olddddddddddd computer -that basically worked for nothing else but storing embroidery files and putting them on to embroidery card )that no one else used that was only for embroidery but during major ice storm last year it died so has had to share with family since then.
One of the worst things is has a college degree in computers (straight A's)-but then again that was so long ago (over 15 years) that everything I learned dealing with computers isnt even used today. But even college degrees cant stop bad luck & timing. If I had been copying by files to disk a half hour later or earlier the power wouldnt of gone off for the few seconds it did and I wouldn't of lost a cd worth of files.
NOW THAT I'VE QUIT COMPLAINING -LOL- I WOULD LOVE TO GET THE DESIGNS I'VE MISSED/LOST-PROBLEM IS THAT I DONT KNOW WHICH ONES THEY ARE since problems started about 2 months ago-FILES THAT I HAVE ARE NOW TOTALLY UNORGANIZED-since lost removable hard drive just havent gotten time to reorganize files and figure out which ones I have. So this is going to be a long/slow process to get back files i lost but THANKS TO ALL that help

[SAnne]

Wow. What a bummer! Hate when that happens. It's my worst fear.

If you had that many files, wouldn't it be better (and easier on you) to just spend the $45 to be able to download all the sets that are here?

[Silver]

If you had anything on your internal HDD when your computer(s) died as long as it was not a lightning strike, voltage spike or similar (unlikely) you CAN move the HDD to another similar computer and retrieve your files ya know...
It depends what went wrong with the external HDD if you can get that info. Certainly even if you cannot find the mfr. you know the retailer and they should have given you a refund/exchange? If it is an external HDD then maybe all you lost in it was its power supply?
If your screen size was getting larger and larger then it sounds like a BIOS or a video issue...not data storage.

I recently lost the motherboard in my computer and after I replaced that component I was happy to see there was no a Hard Disk Drive failure and ALL of my files were still intact. I do back up all my embroidery files at least once a week, since cdr-s and USB jump drives are cheap (I bought several small usb jump drives at Target for under 2.50 a piece!).

If you have a Best Buy store in your area and the data you lost was valuable then consider hiring them to do data recovery for you IF you do not know how to do it yourself.

Desk Top computers, unless you buy a really cheap one that is all integrated like eMachines or a bargain version of a Gateway (or some Compaqs and Dells) or similar have mostly inter-changeable parts (witha similar machine at/atx etc). I built many, many 'new' systems for people from some of their 'dead' computer's parts in my day (I started with software 31 years ago, hardware 29years ago...now I have a really tough job... I am a SAH mom lol)

And NO, sadly I have NO spare machines and I NO longer work on any computers except my family's... NO time, NO spare money, NO shop to work in!

Silver

[scraphappy7]

Hey, I had the same thing happen to me. Spent tons of time organizing my designs, transferred them to an 80g portable, spent more time organizing and then the 80g died. Just up and died. No warning, nothing. Made me just sick.

I did have backup from 6 months back but the hours of organizing---ugh! I put off doing anything because it just made me tired thinking about it.
One last time I thought I try the 80g....and it worked!

After thinking about it, I decided it must have been condensation from leaving it in my car. A week in the house and it had dried up.

Since then, I put all the designs back onto my hard drive, I've organized a lot more, and this next weekend will backup all onto CD. My 80g is still working but I no longer trust it as a backup.

I hope you've been able to recover your files!

Sheree