What the Good Lord Giveth, the Good Lord Taketh Away
Well, you were going to hear from me today: some of my work was cancelled, there seemed to be a conspiracy of professors to get my workload reduced for 24 hours, and everything seemed to indicate that finally, I'd have an easy day.
Then there was a fire alarm, an accidental push of my hard drive into "hibernation" mode (which I know doesn't work), and an automated run of Scandisk in DOS mode. As a result, my Outlook.pst file has been reduced to 0 bytes. I haven't backed it up since the middle of January, though thankfully I archived my email yesterday, so I've only lost about two months of data. (All the contacts, tasks, etc. are safe in my PDA.)
So, figure, the two or three hours I thought I'd have free today will be spent repairing this fiasco. Damn, damn, damn.
Update: OK, I've managed to recover all my emails from January 19 and before. Anything after that is almost certainly lost. If anyone knows of an email they've sent me recently that's particularly important, please send it to me again.
Update II: My best file recovery software just gave up. I suppose I could start doing some detailed file-recovery work, but frankly, it's not worth the time just to recover my email. If anyone reading here (particularly at Columbia) has some idea how to recover data that's been lost by Scandisk redefining a file size, I'd be thrilled to know it.
