The Cover Project

General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Lumberjack42 on August 29, 2009, 04:50:46 PM

Title: Horrible news.
Post by: Lumberjack42 on August 29, 2009, 04:50:46 PM
As with everything else in my life...

I had the Hard Drive that contained all of the covers, templates and raws die on me this week before I could back the data up. So I may be out of the game for good now. I just wanted to stop by and leave a note for all you to know I had a great time working on this project and hope against hope this Data Recovery place can recover all my work and I can come back.

Lumberjack42
Title: Re: Horrible news.
Post by: lordpenguin on August 29, 2009, 05:56:39 PM
That stinks man.
This can happen to anyone.  My hard-drive took a crap several months ago.  So, if anyone needs a place to store their working files and so forth I am offering, as before, free FTP service for any cover artist.  This is the best way that I can contribute to this project.  PM me if you require this service.

And again, that really stinks man...
Title: Re: Horrible news.
Post by: the7k on August 29, 2009, 07:14:08 PM
Yeah, that does suck.

I also lost my main hard-drive, and so almost all my covers are gone, as is my OpenBOR project and RPG Maker XP project. That's about 4-5 years of work down the drain. Happy days.
Title: Re: Horrible news.
Post by: Doom on August 30, 2009, 10:18:47 AM
As with everything else in my life...

I had the Hard Drive that contained all of the covers, templates and raws die on me this week before I could back the data up. So I may be out of the game for good now. I just wanted to stop by and leave a note for all you to know I had a great time working on this project and hope against hope this Data Recovery place can recover all my work and I can come back.

Lumberjack42
How much was lost (not posted to the site as a cover, template, or raw)?

And shame on you all for not backing up your data.
Title: Re: Horrible news.
Post by: PDDestro on September 01, 2009, 05:08:59 PM
I had hard drive overheat and die once. Lost a bunch of stuff including all my family photos over over a 4 year time span since I had used a digital camera. Why I never got around to printing them off I don't know. All those pics of cross country trips and good times gone. :(
Title: Re: Horrible news.
Post by: sheep2001 on September 02, 2009, 02:12:20 AM
Must be a time of year for it - my main music drive is clicking away - about to die any day - desperately trying to copy everything off before it gives up (it's a 1.5 terrabyte seagate external - less than a year old!!)  AND it's looking like i'll have to do a fresh install on my PC as it's misbehaving, and blue screening every hour or so.  Think might need to replace the RAM too!!  >:(
Title: Re: Horrible news.
Post by: Grumbleduke on September 02, 2009, 12:39:47 PM
Its happened to me a couple of times(i keep a backup after the first one). I used a program called GetDataBack on the drive and it recovered almost all of it (thank god). Hope to see your triumphant return LJ.
Title: Re: Horrible news.
Post by: tiktektak on September 02, 2009, 01:32:43 PM
I really hope we won't loose you forever lumber....

Would be a big loss!!!!!!
Title: Re: Horrible news.
Post by: antony30bc on September 02, 2009, 02:16:03 PM
This is indeed horrible news.

Thank you for all the covers LJ42 over the years. I think you did 90% of the covers for my NES games. I am still amazed at how quickly you could make a high quality cover from a crappy scan I would send in.

Antony30bc
Title: Re: Horrible news.
Post by: Drakul on September 03, 2009, 01:44:35 PM
man this blows.... it happened to me several times. Now I use a NAS station with 2 1TB HDDs in RAID1
it works pretty well.