{"id":4492,"date":"2010-09-29T14:42:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T21:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=4492"},"modified":"2010-09-29T14:42:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T21:42:02","slug":"a-visit-from-the-pc-reaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=4492","title":{"rendered":"A Visit from the PC Reaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you see one of these, you may as well give up:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/anticrashassistantreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bsod.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"304\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I was visited by the Blue Screen of Death earlier this week.  My PC&#8217;s hard drive suddenly failed, and none of the files on it were recoverable.  Fortunately, I still had all the original system CDs that came with my computer, along with a three-week-old backup of all my files on an external hard drive.  Sure, I lost some very recent files, but nothing critical, and so far the worst part of the experience has been reconstructing my email address book (for some reason I couldn&#8217;t get the information I needed out of the backed-up file).<\/p>\n<p>Tell you what, I&#8217;ll never be complacent about backing up data again.  There was no indication my hard drive was heading south; when it failed it came as a complete surprise.\u00a0 The lesson I take from all this is that it could happen again, any time, and from now on I&#8217;ll make sure I&#8217;m prepared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you see one of these, you may as well give up: Yes, I was visited by the Blue Screen of Death earlier this week. My PC&#8217;s hard drive suddenly failed, and none of the files on it were recoverable. Fortunately, I still had all the original system CDs that came with my computer, along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrivia","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4495,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions\/4495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}