My lab computer is out to get me.

It used to have 2 hard drives (A & B). A decided to die in December and B developed SMART warnings during the winter break. Concerned, I put in my personal hard drive C and backed up the important bits of B onto C, which also had my MP3s, photos, work archive, etc.

Last saturday, B decided to make weird skipping noises, making me think it was just about gone for good. So I put in a backup hard drive D sitting around the lab and copied everything off B onto it. But then at this time C suddenly made skipping noises too, plus it refused to detect on the computer.

So in an incredible twist of irony, I’m stuck with a full copy of all my least important data, and all my most important stuff on a drive that crashed sneakily on me. Ugh.

My boss heartily endorses the freeze-the-damn-drive method of data recovery, claiming that he’d pulled it off before. I’m bringing a ziplock bag to work tomorrow to keep the moisture out and my luck in. *draws deep breath*

I am so kicking myself for not having been pedantic about copying all my photos onto my iPod.