If you have any insight, please, please help me. I am accepting ‘idiot’ as an appropriate alternative to ‘You’re screwed.’
Hellos all,
Let me first start by mentioning that I am an idiot.
I bought a Dell online probably 15 years ago. Added the cool upgrades to future proof myself a little. I didn’t use it for much. Just general web browsing, emails, stupid games, pictures/videos, my budget in Excel.
Got lots of music off limewire. ITunes. Imported pictures from my digital camera. Saved photos from friends.
Years later I bought a house. It had a small crappy unfinished room under the kitchen that I used as a makeshift office. Of course my kitchen sink leaked.
And of course my tower was right underneath it.
Neighbor across the street was very computer savvy and couldn’t get it to boot. Hard drive error.
Forget it.
Years later, a friend knows a friend that does this stuff.
Yeah, I know.
Multiple tries, no luck.
Now I have a hard drive in a box with ten’s of thousands of pictures and months worth of music just laying around in the hopes that technology (or people in clean rooms with fancy white gloves?) can fix my idiot ways.
Do I have any hope? 10 photos out of one million would make it worth it. Who would I take it too? This pops into my mind every so often (frequently) and it just makes me sick realizing what the actual answer to these questions is.
Thank for your help!
TLDR: Desktop tower got wet, won’t turn on, I’ll never see my handsome boys as infants ever again.
