Well, that sucks, don’t it?
Got my hard drive back from the computer store today. After I finished my physics lab practical, I installed the hard drive that was supposed to have the recovered data on it in Tim’s computer so I could sort through the data and find what I wanted to keep. When I looked at the contents of the drive, I thought that I would have a long and arduous process before me, going through all of the folders, which had names like FLD010. With names like that, who knows what could be in them. I thought that I would start with a search for zip files so I could find my downloads folder. I got no hits for a single file that would have been in that folder. Discouraged, I tried to search for my music, but only found about 400MB of the 1.5GB that I have. At this point, I lost all hope. I tried to search for a few more things, but ultimately came up empty handed.
Now, I get to wait for the 44-to-40 pin IDE adapter to arrive in the mail so I can hook up my laptop hard drive in Garrett’s computer and try some of the software that he has downloaded. It supposedly got shipped today, but I’m not sure if it will get here since I forgot to insert the whole "1700 W Third Ave" part of the address. At least the zip code is only for Kettering. Maybe that will get it delivered here anyway. For now, my hard drive will remain untouched, without any OS installed on it, in hopes of someday getting some software that will recover all of my files.
