Innocent Windows XP Check Disk cause Loss of Data

Windows XP is my working environment in my ECS Desknote. This is where I store all the photos of my travels in different places and countries. I got this weird experience regarding Windows XP when the screen suddenly turned blue or what others call the dreaded Blue Screen of Death. There’s nothing that I could do, but power off the computer.

The computer started to run the scandisks and check disk automatically which I have experienced normally before. The horrible thing followed when after the error checks it restarted on its own and run the error checks again. Things ended up in blue screen again and after which it restarted again with all the error checks. Oh, it was a vicious cycle. It seemed nothing can stop this madness. I got tired of it though and rested my Desknote.

The bad news was little did I know that the hard disk had some physical errors. All my data were lost due to that automatic scandisk and checkdisk thing which works only for broken file system, but not for physical disk errors. I should have known earlier and maybe I still could have retrieved my data. All the photos of my travels are gone. I was reminded of the song from Marie Digby - Unfold (2008) “Stupid for You”. This is one of those crazy data loss horror stories to remember by. Sometimes we seem to get stupid with these techie things.

Check out Sumo Backup’s blog where they feature data loss horror stories to amuse you or simply make you say, “awww…that was bad!” You can also contribute your own story, that is if you ever had your data lost before – how did it happen and what was your reaction? Tell us all about it! You’re welcome to send in your video to Sumo Backup, more details about the submission can be read in their blog (http://blog.sumobackup.com).