Lost all my pics

[Taurus Babe]

My computer crashed on Sat while I was trying to back up all the pics (ironic eh?) They couldn't recover anything. Nothing. I am so crushed. I've been convincing myself all week it'll be okay if they couldn't recover the pics, but I really thought they could.
When I went to pick up the computer he handed it over and I said could you recover anything? And they guy goes "I'm not sure, but they've already sent your hard drive to Apple so it's gone now anyways". I asked him to check if they could have possibly saved anything, but he wasn't sure so I asked him to check in the back. He came back out and said no, but kept reminding me 'they'd already sent my old hard drive away'. I kinda felt like they could have done more, but maybe not. Then he said "this is why we stress back up methods so much". I was thinking, 'thanks jerk, this is a great time to lecture me', but I said, "actually I was doing that while it crashed".

Ahhhh...deep breaths...I know it's not the end of the world, just really makes me sad.

[goofywife]

I am sorry. That is a tuff one.

[Lindsey]

I totally know how it feels! I had just emptied all of my pictures from my camera onto my laptop when it crashed last year. After about a week I tried turning it on and it was a miracle, it actually started! But it was midnight and I was so tired I went to bed, I just decided I wouldn't turn the computer off and in the morning I would burn my pictures to cds. Woke up and the computer was dead, it never started again, and absolutely nothing could be recovered So I only have about 10 baby pictures of Layla now!

[Janet]

I would be so upset if I lost all my pictures. As soon as I get them off my camera, I put them on photobucket. Then as time allows, I put them on CD's.

Only thing is...even backing them to CD's isnt' fool proof. I have one CD I have to keep working with to see the pictures. I did make a copy of it, but you make CD's as a back up and then you have to back up the CD's too....lol

[Emmsmom]

I would ask for the hard drive back. You could always take it to a local computer shop. My computer crashed once but my husband was able to take the hard drive and hook it up to his computer using what he called and external hard drive. After that we decided to back up everything. We had been putting it off for so long. I am so sorry you lost your pictures. I would be upset too.(hugs)

[teri88]

I feel your pain! Our computer crashed last year. I lost pictures, recipes, and all of my son's Eagle Project work. AAAARRRRGGGHHH! I had a few pics on photobucket, but lost many that are irreplaceable. I learned my lesson about backing things up, that's for sure!

[DianaB]

I've had computers crash on me several times and my husband has a friend that's always been able to save what ever we've wanted off of it. I would be really upset because I bet you could have saved your pictures if you'd have found the right computer guy. It doesn't sound like they even try. You might want to see if you can get it back to look for another tech!

I send all of my pictures on to York Photo so I don't have to worry about losing what I have on my computer. I can order my pictures from them and have been very happy with the price and the service.

www.yorkphoto.com

[Taurus Babe]

Originally Posted by Lindsey

I totally know how it feels! I had just emptied all of my pictures from my camera onto my laptop when it crashed last year. After about a week I tried turning it on and it was a miracle, it actually started! But it was midnight and I was so tired I went to bed, I just decided I wouldn't turn the computer off and in the morning I would burn my pictures to cds. Woke up and the computer was dead, it never started again, and absolutely nothing could be recovered So I only have about 10 baby pictures of Layla now!

OMG that is bad luck!!