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My old PC completely gave up Saturday night.

I *hope* I have all my sound files backed up, but what I forgot to back up were my plug-ins VSTi's. :facepalm: WOndering how easy it is going to be to find them all . The only thing I paid for was EZ Drummer, the rest were all freebies.

Good news is I now have 6K RAM, so should not have any running issues.
 
Sorry to hear about that. It's an awful sickening sensation when you realise that a whole heap of important stuff may have disappeared.

You should not give up totally on your hard drive. The stuff on it may be recoverable. For example, there's a program called Zero Assumption Recovery with which I was able to restore stuff from a hard disk that, after a fall, told me there was nothing on it.
 
Have you bought a new computer?
If so, you can just pull the HDD from your old comp and stick it in the new one as a 2nd drive.

If the old drive itself is in good health, you can recover what you like at your leisure, and then use it as a storage drive once you're clear. :)
 
Lost my PC in a flood last year (house too). I sent the hard drive to Seagate (via Staples) and they were able to recover all the data. It wasn't cheap ($1500) but for me it was worth it. Had some recordings on there from the 1960's that had recently been transferred from tape.
 
gecko zzed said:
Sorry to hear about that. It's an awful sickening sensation when you realise that a whole heap of important stuff may have disappeared.

You should not give up totally on your hard drive. The stuff on it may be recoverable. For example, there's a program called Zero Assumption Recovery with which I was able to restore stuff from a hard disk that, after a fall, told me there was nothing on it.
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The old HD was noisy since year 2, so not sure I want to use it full time, but certainly getting the data from it may be possible. This computer is so quiet, I won't
have to move my mic into the next room to record any more!
 
One thing I learned from all this - back up your (free) VSTs, too, or you'll be searching all over for them to re-download and install. :facepalm:
 
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