So, I had a spot of hard drive troubles the other day, and had to jump through a series of hoops to repair the damage. Tonight, I sit down to do some digital art, and find that my entire art folder is missing!

My log says I was experiancing ntfs errors, and eventually crashed on me. I'm told this is basicly some form of HDD failure. I did some chkdsk stuff, and now I seem to be ok... yaknow, minus all my artwork being *OBLITTERATED!*

I gotta figure out how to do data recovery, and see if I can salvage anything. I havn't backed anything up since I got the new computer. So, basicly 5 or so months of work is totally toast. I still have the older stuff, which is of some comfort... but you know, the newer stuff was important too. I was working on some fan comic stuff, and there was the contests and... dammit. X(

Oh, no one snagged the screenshot of the 8000th visitor. So winners there. Better luck next run.

[EDIT!] So the next morning I did some file recovery action, and TADA, I got my art back. For you computer users, it pays to have at least two physical hard drives (no, partitians don't count). Having three saved my tush.