An American Life in Istanbul

Current Mood: Angry & Confused & Sad & Sickly

Some of you will appreciate the magnitude of this crisis more than others. You need to know that I was very very very attached to my laptop. For the past few weeks, my computer has been acting funny when it heats up. To prevent this from happening, I didn’t run too many programs at once, and I would shut down for a while when it started acting up. This seemed to be working. Tuesday night I left it on at work, and on Wednesday it was really acting up. So, Thursday morning I decided to do a back up of my hard disk just in case something went wrong.Thursday morning, when I got into to work, I set up my external hard drive, opened my laptop and pushed the power button. Instead of being greeted with an apple on my screen during booting, I was greeted with a question mark. When I booted from disk, my computer said there was a serious error on my hard disk and that it could not boot from it. So I took the computer to one of two apple repair shops in this city. They are currently doing some four day data recovery process on my hard drive, but they said by the sounds that were coming out of my hard drive, it doesn’t look good. Fortunately, I backed up my work documents about 1 month ago, and I backed up most of the stuff on my computer in September, but still. My laptop was my life. Hundreds of people’s contact information was in there, everything was so organized, all my personal documents I created since coming to

Turkey, my various tooling projects. Since getting that laptop, I never went anywhere without. Now on month shy of the three year mark, my hard drive has failed, the day I intended to back it up. With the uncertainty over the question of whether or not my data can be recovered, I have not been able to sleep very well lately. I am currently using Murat’s crappy Window’s laptop. I will be able to pick up my computer tomorrow with a new hard drive. Whether or not I get my data back is a question still unanswered. I am not usually a religious person, but I think  it is time to start praying.So for the time being there will be no more picture of the week, if there are any pictures at all going up on my blog. I am actually hardly in the mood to write anything…

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