After some sympathy

[Malicious Intent]

Well my excuse for not coming here has always been that music isn't a big part of my life. I never thought it mattered. That was until my harddrive crashed and I lost my entire collection :-( Not a single song burnt to CD. Now it's all gone I know how much I took it for granted.

Since this site is for music lovers, I thought it wise to come here for some sympathy (and hopefully as few comments about backing up as possible!).

[Shawn]

The can be no excuse.

Music Hater!

j/k Welcome Malicious.

p.s. Back your shite up. Does that help?

[MikeHunt]

I feel your pain and welcome to Beatking.

Let us know if there are any files that you can't find/replace.

Maybe someone here has 'em and can help you get back what you had.

PS..ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR FILES ....lol

buy a zip drive or at least backup on CD-RWs

[Umma]

1) Never trust a computer

2) Back up

3) Back up the back up

I have 100 disks of back ups that I never listen to though so maybe it's no big loss :)

[Umma]

4) Never trust a smiling cat

[Malicious Intent]

Music Hater!

Its even worse. I knew the HD I had my music stored on was on its last legs. As my collection grew I slowly forgot about the problems I had had.

Thanks for the kind words MikeHunt, but most of my music was pop-trash and none of it particularly rare.

I'm going to look at this as a clean start.

Rule number 1: NEVER EVER download Missy Elliot songs. The radio may somehow make her sound good, but it is all crap.

[Malicious Intent]

4) Never trust a smiling cat

All crazy sheep say that.

[Kooperman]

Welcome to the funhouse, feline! Sorry about the crash, I've been down that road too.

[rainbowdemon]

Hey M.I. nice to see you here. I lost a lot of music a while back because of a dumb-ass mistake. I know how you feel. It sucks!!

[Kooperman]

I lost about 200 albums once, most of which I couldn't begin to replace. That was a dumbass move too. Got lazy about burning and *poof*, they were gone.

[method77]

I just bought a dvd burner last week and backed everything up.

magic word is BACKUP

repeat after me... backup backup backup..........

[rainbowdemon]

I had a newsgroup reader. It was kind of a pointless thing. So I deleted it. A window opened asking me if I wanted to delete the downloads too. I had never downloaded any thing from the reader anyway, so I said yes. I sat in horror as every mp3 I had ever downloaded evaporated. Fortunately, I had about 85% of it backed up. But still quite a bit was lost.

[Umma]

All crazy sheep say that.

You gotta be crazy...

(and learn to back up)

[Kooperman]

had a newsgroup reader. It was kind of a pointless thing. So I deleted it. A window opened asking me if I wanted to delete the downloads too. I had never downloaded any thing from the reader anyway, so I said yes. I sat in horror as every mp3 I had ever downloaded evaporated. Fortunately, I had about 85% of it backed up. But still quite a bit was lost.

Like cotton candy in a rainstorm....melting away......

[method77]

and the magic word is.....?

[Kooperman]

and the magic word is.....?

Pterodactyl

[method77]

pterodactylous

[Umma]

Pterodactyl

That's a great word.... that should be word of the day

[Kooperman]

pterodactylous

Pterodactyl:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/...erodactyl.shtml

Pterodactylus:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/...odactylus.shtml

[MikeHunt]

MI..usually the HD files can be somewhat recovered... if.... you take it to the right place.

One of my friends had a similar thing happen...he was able to recover about 70% of the files(from the dude at the computer repair place).

It cost him about 30 bucks after he purchased a new HD from them.

[method77]

forgive my spelling. That's what I meant

Most of those names are greek and latin

[DudeAsInCool]

I had about 300 albums stolen from my house sometime during a college bash. I can remember every single one of them to this day. Hopefully, people here can help you restore your lost treasures :) And thanx again for the birthday wish the other day

[rainbowdemon]

I lost about 200 albums in a house fire in the early 80's. A lot of them were original pressings. But then, some years later, file-sharing came along!! So it's not too bad.

[slum_goddess]

malicious, i feel your pain. but if that hadn't happened, you maybe wouldn't be here, so welcome aboard. B)

[Malicious Intent]

and the magic word is.....?

Back up!

MikeHunt: I don't think I'm taking my computer home at Easter to see if my brother can do anything. It is in a bad way though!

You seem to have done it all Rainbow. Losing an original download of "milkshake" due to a harddrive crash isn't as bad as 200 orginal pressings in a house fire!

Now I've got to decide what I want. I loved my Britpop, but I never really listened to it. I also never listened to Eminem or 2pac anymore. It has't been the right weather. I was totally over playing The Thrills, Darkness, White Stripes Outkast "hey ya"... When I start to type I realise how much I had. I'm not sure if to re-aquire them and get back into my old loop, or if to start afresh. Lot's of it I could find on my LAN, but there are more fakes and less organisation than Kazaa!

Anyway, I'll be around the site and hanging on every word you all say!