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How It Happened The circumstances were quite striking. I had bagged my first assignment for the Sunday edition of The Times. It was a great feeling, and I was euphoric as I strutted around the campus with my friends looking at me in awe. The topic was interesting – patterns of employment among migrants from South East Asia who have settled in London over the past five years. It had a lot of scope for research, and I was meticulous about it. I interviewed people, photographed them at home and work, and dumped all the precious data on my disc. It would take me a day to write out the feature article, and two more days to edit it, because I wanted to ensure that I gave my very best. The Times usually does not entertain freelancers or newcomers, so I valued my ‘big break’. My discs were almost full, so they were moving very slowly, and I knew this was quite usual. After all, they contained my papers, notes, tutorial assignments, all the articles written so far, all the research on them, and all my photographs. I had been surfing a lot to look for information, and a virus or two might have entered, but I wasn’t worried because I had a software installed to take care of all that. Exactly two days before my deadline, the computer did not start up in the morning. After trying to switch it on in various ways, including with the help of the UPS and with direct power supply, I brought in a friend’s monitor, and tried with that. Like wise, I plugged in my monitor on to his machine to check it out. I came to the conclusion that my monitor was working just fine, so was my UPS, but something was wrong with the computer itself, i.e., with my CPU. I was very scared and on the verge of tears. My friends were trying to give me helpful advice ranging from “try thumping it from behind” to “I can call my tutor, he is a total geek”. I did not want to phone my girl friend, she is the only one who had harped about backups all the time, though I had done a calculation for her showing that two packs of CDs were worth one Saturday dinner at the Chinese place in the corner, and that was a much better idea. I would appear to be anything but heroic, if I called her now, specially with the prize assignment only two days away. The Rescue Ultimately after wasting three more hours – which seemed like five minutes to me – I did call her. She was mad at me, and I suppose I deserved it. But she was there in half an hour with the sanest suggestion of the morning. She told me there were people who doctored a computer when things went wrong, and I should check out where to find them on the internet. So I rushed to the nearest cyber cafe, and started checking it out on the net. I came across a lot of companies and they all seemed equally impressive. Finally, I short listed five, on the basis of their client list, news about them, and whether they are listed in the directories of such companies. They call their job ‘data recovery’. After phoning them, I zeroed down the list to three, and asked them about the price. Finally I chose one called Fields Data Recovery, because they said they would return my money if they didn’t manage to do it. Within three days, my computer was back in shape, with the viruses gone, and a surprisingly slim bill in hand. I was really impressed with how cool this company was, and I would suggest that anyone who is in a hurry, but does not want to spend a fortune, should go for them. Of course, it would be better to back up your data in the first place…
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James Walsh is a freelance writer and copy editor. For more information on Data Recovery see www.fields-data-recovery.co.uk
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