Hard drive committed
"We've all had one of those "oh no!" moments when a some precious data slides into the great digital abyss. I'd heard the adage "any data you don't back up is data you don't want to keep", but I hadn't done anything about it. I was about 75% of the way through my senior thesis when my laptop decided it no longer wanted to speak to me. It had always been a temperamental beast, a little bloated with adware I was too lazy to get rid of, a little underpowered on the RAM front, but I was sure it would see me through to the end of the school year.
Oh, how wrong I was. I went in to the library to check some footnotes one morning, and when I came back, it was all over. No battery light, no power light, no drive activity light. No response to power-button mashing, reset-hole ballpoint pushing, or even tearful, curse-word laden shouting. Following my best attempts at self-repair, then, I took it to the friendly neighborhood PC repair guy. No luck there, either. Apparently the hard drive had completed committed hari-kari, and absent some CSI-style forensic stuff (which was rather outside this poor student's budget), my data was gone to a better place, where it couldn't be hurt again. So, I downloaded someone else's paper off the good ol' internet, turned that in instead, and pledged never to forget to back up my data again. The End."
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