…and the screen went blank… by Elizabeth Kay
It’s a bad time at the moment for all sorts of things - but as we start to rely more and more on our computers during lockdown, having your hard drive crash is devastating. And then you discover that your backup disc hasn’t recorded anything since February 2019… A physical component failing is much harder to fix than a s oftware crash. The message I got on my suddenly blank screen was: Preparing to recover files. But it didn’t. My husband connected my backup disc to his computer, which was when we found out that there was nothing on it after February 2019, and he couldn’t even access what did appear to be there. My local computer shop is very good, but they only do pick-ups and drop-offs once a week during lockdown; I felt lucky they were able to take it at all. But the prospects were not good. As I tea...