Welcome To My Blog

Thanks for checking the blog out... Hope it offers something a bit different every now & again. Though I come from a pseudo - Mod background (Soul & Ska in particular), I have a diverse taste in music & hope my varied posts will reflect this.

Cheers Skamanc .... I'm not after your undying gratitude, but please leave your thoughts, comments & opinions on the posts & content. I regularly up- & download material, plus buy and trade items. As such, if I have inadvertently "trodden on anyone's toes" in posting anything then please let me know & accept my apologies. Also please support the artists involved & remember that the blog is merely a pointer toward these various downloads, which are stored elsewhere. Legally, any downloads should not be retained for more than a week. So now I've told you the legal bit !

Feel free to give me a shout : waltjabsco@hotmail.com

Manchester M22, September 2016

For my kids, Dylan & Tommy. Bollocks to the ex Mrs!

Special thanks to Steve White (software), Gordon Waring (music), Shaun Robinson (artwork), Paul Buddery (DVD's / software) & Sonchey Barrett (essential technical advice!).

"Thank you" also to regular contributors Herr Pauli (Malente, Germany), Phil (Shetland), Deco Mc Dermott & Mark Pengelly of Dublin, Martin Smith (Barnet), Paul Baily (London) and Rodd (Australia).

Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Want the bad news or the BAD news ?

It seems that my back up hard drive has malfunctioned sometime today & I appear to have lost the best part of 1TB (!!)  of music. This formed the bulk of my collection, plus contributions for the blog (from Rodd & Pauli for example), future posts as well as loads of family photos, college stuff & more.

To say that I am fuming & devastated is something of an understatement ...

To make maters worse, I am currently severely restricted in my ability to up / download due to Virgin having been cut off (The Mrs Phone Bill to blame) & therefore having to resort to Plan B (the T mobile dongle) yet again, with its accompanying shite data allowance.

There'll be no posts for a few days now I reckon as I take stock & see what I can sort out.

I'm desperately trying to sort out the HDD but I don't hold out much hope.

UPDATE : Turns out there are 3 bugs or viruses on various sectors of the drive (??) though the data was recoverable. YES !!! Bought a new drive so I'll be able to transfer all the file sover & breath again !!!
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11 comments:

  1. Anonymous30 March 2011 at 23:38

    Stay cool Skamanc,
    Bad news realy but just be patient and take your time,your HD will soon be full again.
    Cheers.

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  2. Skamanc31 March 2011 at 00:22

    Thanks mate. Its going to be checked by the local PC wizard / dvd pirate this weekend - he's hopeful but I ain't !!

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  3. TC31 March 2011 at 00:25

    Ouch, thats nasty. Good luck recovering your data.

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  4. Skamanc31 March 2011 at 01:02

    Cheers Tony. I s'pose there's always a chance. I'm a car electrician but I can see that there's power going in & an output signal. Have checked the leads & used spare ones but still nothing... Should be asleep for a 5.30 start but am updating an old ipod I was given... Need Virgin back on asap to re-download all the stuff I've blogged (that's not died) over the last 14 months....

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  5. Anonymous31 March 2011 at 16:29

    Keep the faith Skamanc

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  6. Skamanc31 March 2011 at 16:55

    Thanks lads. Its all ended ok as Fat Pu#aul has managed to recover the data though I'll have to bin the hard drive. Got a replacement so I'll be back in business by the weekend. There's a couple of things drafted on the blog dshboard so I can use these for now...

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  7. martin41smith31 March 2011 at 17:59

    Really sorry mate, just got in to read this, what a disaster,glad your pc guru came up trumps, keep the faith

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  8. HERR PAULI31 March 2011 at 18:48

    fuckin bad news sorry mein freund.
    good luck and keep the faith

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  9. Fatbhoyjim31 March 2011 at 19:51

    Hi Skamanc Had this happen to me once like a death in the family. But I never gave up hope and found software to recover the drive contents. All is well now and I wish that for you too

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  10. Skamanc31 March 2011 at 20:16

    Thanks again to all. I reckon there's a lesson to be learned here... I was meaning to back up the HDD for months & never got around to doing so. Now, I've got 2x new 1TB drives - one to store the files and one to back this up. My Dad is a very good amateur photographer - he has back ups of his back ups & a precision filing system.... Son unlike Father I regret to say lol

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  11. Skamanc31 March 2011 at 20:18

    Oh yeah - I'm just backing up itunes as well - lesson definitely learned !!! Losing my ipod's contents would be a major ordeal !!!

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