Hardisk Crashed!

My treatment is currently put on hold during this holy month of Ramadhan.. I guess it's a good thing to take time off and relax from all those needles, ultrasounds and poking (really really not a fun experience I tell you). 

Last weekend my husband and I went to Low Yat Plaza to buy IT stuff because we wanted to get good bargains during the PC Fair event. We went there with the intention to buy a printer (the one that can be modified to cater external ink tank), external hardisk casing (my old casing got busted because I dropped in once too many times!), external hardisk for each of us (they are getting cheaper by the month!), bluetooth mouse for my netbook, a cable replacement for our GPS, and a set of speakers (my husband added this item on our shopping list at the last minute!).

So, on a fine Saturday afternoon, we drove there and trotted up and down the aisles of shops to find the most best bargain we could. It was tiring and my feet were killing me. We didn't bring a lot of cash but armed ourselves with plastic cards. The problem with Low Yat retailers is that they do not want to bear the cost of government tax for credit card accessibility and imposed that tax to the customers. That is SO unfair! They have this attitude of 'you don't want to pay? Some other people will come and buy'. This is because throngs of IT-starved people like us do go there and succumb to the greedy merchandiser there just because there's no other place to go for IT parts and merchandise. So, note to all: brings lots of cash when shopping for IT stuff at Low Yat Plaza.

Ok, moving on.. So we went there and bought all the stuff on our list plus a couple of other things as well (impulse buying is not good - but I call it shopping therapy.. hehe!). We brought home along with  the other stuff a cigarette port extension (for the car), a USB port replicator and a very cute portable speaker (for me!).

I had quite a tough time finding a replacement casing for my IDE hardisk because it seems that they are not produced anymore since all the external hardisk sold now is SATA. The salesman that sold me the casing told me this fact. He also has an IDE hardisk and he's praying that his casing won't break or malfunction because it's hard to get a replacement. Even though the casing wasn't at all nice-looking, I had to make to with it. 

Back at home I tried plugging in the newly-cased old hardisk of mine into my laptop and it worked fine. It suddenly struck me that I need to make a backup just in case anything happens to it. So when I unplug the hardisk, and plug it into another laptop, it wasn't recognizable! Suddenly the computer is asking for me to format the hardisk! What?!! Oh no! Backup intuition came too late! I panicked BIG TIME! So i unplug it and tried plugging in into the other computer and the outcome is still the same. I thought it was because of the casing so I changed the hardisk back into the old casing with high hopes that it would all be all right. I was dead wrong! The hardisk was still unreadable.

I called my IT-whiz brother and told him about my predicament. He broke the bad news to me that my hardisk had crashed. It is now officially DEAD. Waaaaa!! All my life is in that hardisk! So now I am on a quest to try to recover all my data from the crashed and burned hardisk. Hope I can find a solution with freewares one of these days.. huhu..