Samsung SP2514N (Rest In Peace) :'(

One of my worst fears came true today. I lost my data.

I have a Samsung SP2514N 250GB hard drive with all of my music, documents, videos, pictures, e-books, programs, movies, and the rest of the data I once cared to store inside. And last night, I broke it.

Not in half or anything, of course. It was 1AM last night, and I had accidentally fallen asleep on my bed, waiting for some process to finish running on my PC. I suddenly woke up, noticed I was wasting electricity, and turned everything off.

Now, my computer is connected to a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply), and even when it's turned off, it makes a low humming noise when connected to an outlet. I wanted no noise whatsoever in my room, so I stepped behind my computer and unplugged its power cord. However, due to my hand cast, I'm much clumsier than before. On the way back to my bed, while stepping over my computer's spaghetti cords scrambled across the floor, my foot (my right foot, I think) kicked my Samsung SP2514N off my PC's 17" tall case, and well, you know, gravity did the rest. It hit the stone floor with a dull metallic whacking sound. "WHACK!". "OUCH", I thought. But what could I do? I just picked it up, put it in a safer place (on the floor in a corner), turned off the rest of my room's apparatuses, and went to sleep.

And just a few hours ago I turned it on to see what had been the results of that ominous dull metallic whacking sound. After making its usual turn-on hum, it emitted strange clicks and clacks that made me worry. Windows recognized the disk when I connected it, and the first thing I did was a chkdsk on the drive. Bad news. Sectors 10000 through 65973 were corrupted and unreadable. I tried to access the file system through the explorer, and WHAM! I saw it. My complete file system had been reduced to a single empty folder called "GAMES". No files, no data, no nothing. 189GB of data were left virtually unaccesible inside my hard drive. My 11GB of music. My 3GB of pictures. My 5GB of documents and letters. My 8GB game collection (Stunts, Cat, Baby, Gabriel Knight, Sierra Games collection, King Quests, Space Quests, Police Quests, Quests for Glory, sigh...). My "Candy" series collection I took almost a month to download (and never got around to actually watch). My codecs, my drivers, my SWF collection, my PPX collection, my "funny internet videos" collection, my musical videos collection. My 768MB 1-hour DJ Tiesto concert video ("The 10th of May, 2003 will be a day to remember in the history of dance music music music..."). My 140GB of movies. Lagaan. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The Elegant Universe. What the Bleep do we Know? Finding Nemo. Monsters Inc. Und so weiter... (siiiiiiiiiiigh)

Two things are very very interesting:

1. I don't feel as devastated as I thought I would. This may be a consequence of:
2. I burned 3 DVDs with the backup of what I considered my most important data (pictures, trance music, and other miscellaneous) only 2 days ago. Isn't it weird? I've had my hard drive for a year already, and it's been on top of my computer case for months now. I make a backup, and not two days later, WHAM! it breaks. Isn't Life such an interesting thing? I'm sure the Fates had something to do with this.

Such an interesting day, too. After a cancelled appointment @11AM, my japanese class @1130, and a ride back home with Pedro, I quite thoroughly enjoyed my day. I went to the nearby shopping center, strolled down the aisles of Paiz San Cristóbal, bought 1/4 liter of chocolate milk, talked with a Salvadorean lady while we waited at the cashier, bought two small Q0.50 pieces of "water-bread" (whatever that is) at San Martín, bought a Q0.40 sheet of paper at GrafiArte, sat down on a bench, dipped my pieces of bread into my milk, watched people walk by, and wrote some of my thoughts on my recently-acquired receipts and paper sheet. It was all very nice and peaceful.

And when I came back home, I found out that all the data in my hard drive had been lost. I also found out that today and tomorrow are two very nice and special mayan days. I had a nice long conversation with Scarleth on the phone, a long conversation with DD on GTalk, and I actually enjoyed my evening very much. And I plan to do some abacus right now. I want to increase my abacus skill as much as possible these days, I know I can.

So I lost my data. Funny, considering I just recovered someone else's data not 5 days ago. Reverse karma? Maybe it was some kind of warning. If it was, it was REALLY well-timed.

I WILL try to get you back, data inside of broken hard drive. But don't get your hopes high. I'll probably never see you again. May you rest in peace, Samsung SP2514N. I will always remember you fondly.