I'm having technological breakdown here. My external hard drive, my 250 gig external fucking hard has just stopped working. Yesterday it was exhibiting signs of an imminent crash. The drive was registering as "full", but some files weren't showing up. I tried to dig for them and the computer blue screened. Then when I brought the drive home and hooked it up to notebook, the drive would be there, but when I clicked to open it up, windows would ask me if I want to format the drive. FUCK NO I DON'T WANT TO FORMAT THE DRIVE.

So what can I do? I downloaded some file recovery software and it dutifully poured over the drive and found the files, but because the software wasn't registered (it was some trial version) it wouldn't actually recover them. I thought I'd wait to talk to Maxtor customer service, but they were totally useless when I called them this morning. I'll try again when I get home tonight, but I have little faith that I'm going to get all my files back.

Much of it, movies, music and other entertainment, is replaceable, but the pictures and the documents are not. I'm trying to be optimistic. I mean, shit, the files were mostly there yesterday, they can't just all disappear in an instant, can they? Well, they probably can, but that's the price we pay for living in the digital age.