assured me that my data should be fine. If it was the hard disk I should still be able to power it on. I’m taking some comfort in that, and hope to get this sorted out first thing Thursday morning.

I almost hyperventilated when I realized what was happening. That bad.. :P Pulled myself together tho, mainly coz my latest work are mostly server-based. I just hope that this isn’t worse than what it seems. Fingers-crossed!

Born-again backupper.. I’m definitely a candidate for one of those.. ;) Like you say, the issue shouldn’t lead to data loss. But in my line of work, I’ve seen many instances whereby a minor thing lead to another, which invariably corrupts the file system, leading to some kind of data loss. So yeah, while all logic at this point tells me I shouldn’t worry, I’ve seen enough to expect the worse.

I don’t think I’d lose much of critical work files. The beauty of having online forums, repositories and dozens of document library on the office server means I seldom keep things on my local drive. The only thing remaining are my photos, private journals and archived emails. I surely wuldn’t wanna lose any of those, but it wouldn’t be the end of the world (I think!) if I did.

Thanks for the tip about emailing important files into Gmail, it’s about time I put my Gmail storage to good use like that. Thanks again Adar, have a good week ahead!