I am now fully backed up with my most important items burned to cds....that being said it was after a spiral of events. My husband called me from his work a couple of days before Thanksgiving asking me if I had all of our mp3s on my Zune. To which I said no not everything...a big chunk but not everything...especially not any of my x-mas music or most of the music only he likes. He says oh ok. Hangs up. When he gets home that night he tells me that he thinks our EHD is broken, but he thinks he can get the stuff off it at work the next day. Well the next day at work he trys everything he knows to get the data off the drive...recovery program, freezing it, dropping it (yes it works sometimes), and he wasn't able to recover anything off it.
Luckily it was our back up drive and I still had all of my pictures, scrapbook pages, and digital scrapbook kit files. We did lose all of our mp3s...except the ones I had on my Zune...we had a lot of mp3s. He had been re-organizing them off of the EHD while on the train to and from work over several weeks, and had pulled them all off of our computers. Now a lot of the music we can re-rip from cds ( a lot of work), but I had quite the collection of Christmas music from the days when you could get them free on napster...some were rare that I may never get again. I am so bummed since I love Christmas music. I listen to it non-stop from the day after thanksgiving until the day after christmas. Now I have been resigned to listening to the Sounds of the Seasons music channel on my Cable tv or on the ...gasp...radio in my car. I can only take so much Robert Goulet before I crack.
So needless to say it prompted my husband to finally burn our stuff to cds and keep a copy at his work (though I had been asking him to do it for months). I am sad about my Christmas music being gone, but am very thankful that that was all we lost.
So here is another public service message.... BACK UP YOUR FILES....we may now get back to Robert Goulet.
