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blgarver:
Oh man.  Just hearing that makes me sick to my stomach.  I've lost things like that before.  Luckily it was none of my writing, just some of my short films from college. 

It sounds like you guys have all the info in your head anyway, if you've been toiling over the thing so much.  Sounds like it's just going to take some old fashioned elbow grease and several pots of coffee.  Try not to let the blues get ahold of you.  Just sit down and get it back to paper, if you need it that much.  Try not to dwell on how much work was put into it.  After all, it's not really lost, becuase now it's all worked out and all you have to do is write it down again.

It may even come out more organized than you had it before, and offer a fresh eye so you might come up with some ideas to add or modify, or whatever.

I have my writing folder on my laptop, which is my workhorse for writing, and then I have copies on two different flash drives, and one on my computer at home.  I updtae the copies every time I write something new.  The only problem is that the flash drives can be kind of tricky to keep track of.

Wish you the best!  Good luck!

BLG

Ren:
From a Tech Support Employee (me):
Question is, did you reformat and reisntall the entire OS? Even if you did there is always a chance at Data recovery, but you'll have to take it to a Data Recovery company like Drive-savers or Ontrac (Both have very good reputaitons), but it won't be cheap. But if You can't remember things like me it may be the way to go if you dont want to lose 7 years worth of work. With a single small disk it might not be so bad privce-wise, but I'm used to dealing with folks with multi-drive RAID Array with several hundred Gigs of valuable data so take that as you will. You can always ask them for a rough quote.
May want to take it to a local shop first though, preferably someone with a good reputation, and see if they can do anything to help you recoveer that Data. I thought I had lost all of MINE even after backign up to an external drive, but was able to get it recovered.
Hope this gives you some hope and ideas...8)

SunPhoenix:
I'm scared... (saves everything he has to E-mail)

Helen™:

--- Quote from: SunPhoenix on November 10, 2007, 11:48:43 PM ---I'm scared... (saves everything he has to E-mail)

--- End quote ---

My daughter saves everything to a flash drive.  She leaves it in the computer while she's writing her stories and saves periodically.  That way if the unthinkable happens and we lose everything, she has all of her stuff saved.  The flash drives really aren't that expensive.  I got her a 2G drive for twenty dollars.

Josh:
I've got a six gig usb drive that I use to backup all my documents weekly. I started doing this after a similar situation struck my computer out of the blue and wiped out several weeks worth of writing. It always wrenches the gut when that happens. The only thing one can do though is hope that stuff is stuck in the subconscious, and that when you produce it the second time around, it'll be improved...maybe a little refined.

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