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The good news is that we are not alone! Hard Drives are failing all over the planet right now and gigs and gigs of tunes are saying bye bye!

My back-up discipline was appalling. My hard drive - holding my iTunes library- was an accident just waiting to happen - so why did I not do the sensible thing? Because guys do not always do the sensible thing! My hard drive crash taught me a big lesson, though - back up. These days you can get 400 gigs of storage for $150- there’s no excuse. Everybody thinks it will not happen to them- we know it does!
Hard drives are delicate- REALLY DELICATE. A laptop hard drive is usually made of glass. Drop it and if it shatters you are screwed. Workstation hard drives are a bit tougher. They are usually made of metal. One tip for the future- if you spill something on your computer do not stick it on a radiator to dry it out. This will cause oxidation. If you think there’s a chance of rescuing your stuff get it to an expert ASAP. But they are expensive. You are looking at a bill of maybe $800.

But we need to look on the bright side of life- at least we are getting the tunes back from the iPod and we have learnt a big lesson in life- back up! By the way, if you have photos stored on the iPod you are going to get them back too! They are in a separate folder on the iPod and it is really easy to restore them

Plan for the future:

1. Get my tunes back with some rescue software

2. Buy an external hard drive

3. Back up every week

4. Be happy!