Lost?

Lost?

A Lesson learned!

Before the digital age I took 90% of my pics on transparancy film and developed them myself. About seven or eight years ago I began to scan all the noe aging slides and store them digitally. This is one from about 1977.

Two years ago I transferred them from my computers C drive to an external Hard Drive, thinking that they would be safe. NOT SO! 2 weeks ago the drive failed. Could not retrieve anything. Forty years work seemingly lost.

I didn't panic much!!! Spent a few nervous hours checking out file recovery software. Bought Sandisk RescuePro and set it to work. It took 48 hours to scan and retrieve the data from the failed disk and another 48 hours to save the files. But it worked! Even to the extent of retrieving Files I had deleted. Over 30,000 pictures recovered.

The moral is; DONT RELY ON A SINGLE DRIVE TO STORE YOUR PICS!! Copy them to Gold CD's as well. I am in the process of doing that right now.

Last week I bought two new 8gb Sandisk Compact Flash Cards. Each one has a voucher for a free download of RescuePro. I dont need them as I bought the software.

If you need to Rescue some pics from a failed disk send me a fotomail and the first 2 applicants can have the serial Numbers for RescuePro.

Hope you like this, it could well have been lost forever.