Just to add to the pain..
Just to add to the pain, after managing to recover all my lost music from the HDD [see thread] simply using windows XP’s own scandisk (!), I stepped a little boldly again and ended up getting an arbitrary 30GB of music deleted. This time was worse, because an arbitrary 30GB is harder to restore from [...]
Oh god, my Music library
OK, so I accidentally toasted my substantial music collection last night. Everyone who knows me knows that I pride this eclectic, pedantic, hoarded and polished music collection more than anything else that I own: it’s essentially my life’s work thus far, and to lose it is comparable to losing a limb. Therefore I’m pretty careful about [...]

