September 16, 2004

• My external hard drive died today. It wasn't the cable, as I thought earlier. This was a quick downward spiral after updating the drive's flash ROM, which I thought was innocuous, but was catastrophic. Shut up, Marco.

  Gone with the drive: Too much important stuff to list, like all my photography.

  I called LaCie, who makes the drive. No help; I'd have to send it to them, and they won't guarantee not to format it.

  Got a new drive enclosure. The hard drive won't even spin up in it. I was able to determine that both the drive and the enclosure are kaput. (An old too-small-to-use hard drive works in the new enclosure, not in the old one.)

  Sent an email off to get a quote from DriveSavers, but haven't heard back.

  Sigh.

  • 10:48 pm
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