It must be the impending equinox. My Laptop at work croaked also, taking with it 2 or 3 big ticket projects I was assigned to and had not moved to the server yet. A tendril of smoke started coming out of it and despite the strong urge to turn it off right away, I started trying to drag files to the server it was still connected to. At lunch hour. When half of my coworkers are surfing the internet. As in excruciatingly slow.
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The IT guys say chances are good that despite the motherboard going south, the data on the hard drive should be intact and some time next week
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I'll have another and be able to see what is left on the old hard drive. In the mean time,
"Have a good day."
Sorry to hear of your misfortune and hope you did an incremental backup at the end of every day....
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