That means my entire fanart collection is gone.

Like 30 Gigs of music.

Which isn't a HUGE deal, because I can find the most important stuff and download it?

But it's like...upsetting in principle.

What. How/!

The fanart and icons and shit will be a lot harder to find/replace.

it all on an external?

No, it was all on my internal, which died

I was in the process of transferring files to my external when it crashed completely

so their went all my shit

Just flat out died? It might be recoverable!

I saved my documents and some other miscellaneous junk I wanted

As long as there's been no flat out atrocious physical damage

I t had already "died"

like, I couldn't boot my computer up

the tech guys booted a linux system on my laptop that would allow me to access it

but partway through that I stopped being able to

Every time I'd try and access the hard drive the system would crash

So the guy said I was SOL

Hmm. I can't say for sure without looking at it myself... normally I'd plug in a USB drive adapter, hook it up to a 2nd comp and check it

but even then recovery software may cost 100 bucks?

Ugh, well... it could always be worse chya?

aw man, similar thing happened to me before ._. *bropat*

Thanks, guys. I think I'l survive, It'll just take a while to recover shit.

The thing I'm most upset about is all the saved art I lost, because I lot of it I probably won't be able to find again.