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[nny]

FUCK

I just wrote a story I was proud of. For the first time in fucking ages. And I saved it. And, like an idiot, I saved it to a disk and didn't back it up on my computer. And now the disk is fucked and I don't know why and I'm nearly crying because it was GOOD. And I NEVER like what I write.

Fuck.

Is there any way I can save this?

I am SO ANGRY at myself.




ETA: Sorted. I just wrote it again. Frustrating, but there ya go.

Comments

[edg.livejournal.com]

Define "fucked". Is the disk just not reading, or is the plastic shattered, the metal door gone, and the magnetic surface crumpled up in someone's jacket pocket?

[scarah2.livejournal.com]

There are some utilities that can try to recover floppies with errors.

http://www.freebyte.com/filediskutils/#datarecovery

http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html?qt=floppy+recovery&tg=dl-2001&search.x=0&search.y=0&search=+Go%21+

Or google floppy recovery

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

Is there any other way that you can try the disk on another machine and see if you can, I don't know, email the file to yourself if it'll open from there?

[malachan.livejournal.com]

:(!!!!

dunno if there's any way to save it...try on another comp?

wah!

[indy-go.livejournal.com]

WAH. I am no help whatsoever in this situation. I did the same thing to a FINAL last term.

:(

[flyakate]

*pets and offers tea* I did that once with a 70+ page story--got eaten by my computer. I'd been working on it for years. But a story is a story, and it always hurts when you lose it. That sucks.

[cantabile.livejournal.com]

*makes a suggestion* How about a gmail account for external storage/backing up? One of my friends did this after everything got wiped from her computer and passed the suggestion on.