Tim,
I can empathize. I had a similar thing happen last year. I took my computer
to a computer repair shop, and they installed a new hard drive, and were
able to recover some of my files, but not the most important ones. They said
the hard drive's bearings had frozen up from over use or over heating. I
discovered that if  I put the old hard drive in the freezer for long enough
to get it really cold, I could then hook it into my computer as a secondary
hard drive, and could transfer a significant amount of information before it
would stop working again. after repeating this several times, I was able to
recover everything I cared about. Whatever you do, don't give up!
Steve Shelby

Tim Nikias <tim### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
news:3e6025c0@news.povray.org...
> Well.
>
> No more PartixGen-Animations.
> No more work on Vegetation-Includes.
> Bye-Bye Worldbowl 2003 Edition.
> Have fun, my old and long-used Includes.
>
> For my HD died today. Just a few weeks ago,
> my Backup CD didn't want to be read anymore,
> and just today I thought: I've just reinstalled the
> system, now go on and make some backups.
>
> Well, that thought came too late.
>
> All thats left:
> ========
> Scenes: All ZIP files for these were on another Harddrive
> "Gerberas", "Tranquil", "Love is a vow"
> To be recovered from IRTC: "Worldbowl" (2002), "Iced Land",
> "2 Lonely"
>
> Include-Files:
> IO-Macros, Mesh-Modifying-Macros, Bezier-Splines -
>  These are on my homepage.
> x_over-Include, a cross-over of Bezier-Splines and
> MMM, with which I modelled a lot of the meshes, was found
> in the "Gerberas" ZIP, though its probably some older version.
>
> Aside of that, everything is lost, all codes, all scenes, all gone.
>
> With the important POV-Stuff went all my stuff from the
> University, all MP3 (most of them just my own, I've got
> like a 95% own MP3 and 5% downloaded), and my games,
> though that isn't so bad, they're just games.
>
> But to lose three years worth of POV-Efforts...
>
> Ken, would you mind shooting me? ;-(
>
> Anyways:
> <see good side of it all mode>
> All crappy code is gone, I've got space for new, clean code!
> <see good side of it all mode off>
>
> Rune, if you've still got some version of my Particle-System,
> you could send it to me. Don't know if I'd want to continue
> working on it though. Probably move on to some new System.
> Using I/O. ;-D
>
> Enough rambling. Remember guys, make backups,
> lots of em. If you're not tracing something, make
> backups.
>
> Hm. I guess I'll post a Reflective-Sphere-on-Checkered-Plane
> tomorrow. My first image for my reborn PC.
>
> Regards,
> Tim
>
> --
> Email: tim### [at] gmxde
> URL: www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights
>
>

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