Thursday, September 3, 2009
My FYP desktop hard disk has been SAVED!! All my data in it has been recovered!!! AHHH there REALLY can be miracles! Just when i was about to lose hope and redo everything again, yikun mentioned to me that his senior who is now working at DSI might be able to help me retrieve the data. I really didn't have much high hopes then coz I had sent the hard disk to IT Coop (the SUPPOSEDLY IT specialists in NUS) to analyse it earlier and was told the files inside were too corrupted to be retrieved. They actually said that the hard disk was too severely damaged and referred me to a data recovery centre at Science Park who would have the necessary software to help me. Feeling extremely despondent by then, I decided to try my luck and was told by the people there that it was cause me a fricking $1000 to retrieve my data coz the hard disk was very old and extra effort was required to find the ancient parts. What the hell?!?! I was completely crestfallen by then and decided, with an extremely heavy heart, to redo my results so that I could avoid such expenses. So yes, I really was quite doubtful that anyone could recover my data anymore. Still, I passed the hard disk to yikun who handed it over to his senior on Monday. And goodness me, on Tuesday evening after my tuition, yikun gave me a call and told me, to my greatest elation, that his senior had recovered my data!!! I anxiously arranged to meet up with him and his senior Luke the next day and when all the recovered files was transferred to my computer, I realised that every single bit of my data had materialised back in front of my eyes again!!! AHHH thank you so much Luke! You helped me even though you didn't know who i was and i'm really really appreciative of that! Thank you so much yikun! You went around asking for help when you found out about my problem and helped me resolve it! Thanks so much! =D
Man this was a real close one for me...losing all that data meant redoing almost 3months of work which would have cost me much precious time indeed. Now everything is back on track already! I'm really so grateful to everyone who tried to help me one way or another, especially to yikun and luke for being my beacons of hope!!! Seriously lost faith in our NUS IT coop for their incompetency in not being able to help me with this issue. They provided me with misleading information and nearly made me burn a big hole in my pocket by recommending me that data recovery centre. Goodness me...and all those people in my lab were completely useless in providing any assistance to me at all too (with exception to my supervisor who patiently helped me reinstall everything back on the new computer) and only kept emphasizing to me that any costs borne cannot be reimbursed by NUS. Really piece of shit la they all...such people make me feel so disgusted sometimes... Its good to know that there're still a bunch of good samaritans out there to remind me that not everyone is that selfish and unkind~
And now...fyp re-commences!! Jiayou everyone! =D
P.S: yes i've bought a new thumbdrive and backed up my data to it alrdy~ lol everyone PLEASE REMEMBER TO CONSTANTLY BACK UP UR DATA!!! Computers are temperamental creatures~
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