Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication - L. Da Vinci

Meaning of family
(F)ather

(A)nd

(M)other

(I)

(L)ove

(Y)ou

The word HELLO means :

(H)ow are you?

(E)verything all right?

(L)ike to hear from you

(L)ove to see you soon!

(O)bviously, I miss you …

Dear Gurmeet,

I am in a well here and hoping you in the same well there. I’m writing this letter slowly, because I know you cannot read fast.

We don’t live where we did when you left home. Your dad read in the newspaper that most accidents happen 20 miles from home, so we moved 20 miles. I wont be able to send the address as the last Sardar who stayed here took the house numbers with them for their new house so they wouldn’t have to change their address. Hopefully by next week we will be able to take our earlier address Plate here, so that our address will remain same too.

This place is really nice. It even has a washing machine, situated right above the commode. I m not sure it works too well. Last week I put in 3 shirts, pulled the chain and haven’t seen them since. The weather here isn’t too bad. It rained only twice last week. The first time it rained for 3 days and second time for 4 days.

The coat you wanted me to send you, your Aunt said it would be a little too heavy to send in the mail with all the metal buttons, so we cut them off and put them in the pocket. Your father has another job. He has 500 men under him. He is cutting the grass at the cemetery. By the way I took bahu to our club’s poolside. The manager is badmash. He told her that two piece swimming suit is not allowed in this club. We were confused as to which piece should we remove? Your sister had a baby this morning. I haven’t found out whether it is a girl or a boy, so I don’t know whether you are an Aunt or Uncle. Your uncle, Jetinder fell in the nearby well. Some men tried to pull him out, but he fought them off bravely and drowned. We cremated him and he burned for three days.

Your best friend, Balwinder, is no more. He died trying to fulfil his fathers last wishes. His father had wished to be buried in the sea after he died. And your friend died while in the process of digging a grave for his father. There isn’t much more news this time. Nothing much has happened.

Love
Mom.

P.S : Beta, I was going to send you some money but by the time I realized,I had already sealed off this letter.

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I start my laptop, log in, try to open a file on my external USB drive, Can’t find it. Wierdly!! can’t find any of the other files either. Just didn’t know what was going on!! For a second, my mind went into a spin. The thing I most dreaded happened. I had lost it all!!

I re-imaged my PC and left the USB hard drive connected. That’s what caused it!! 100 things were going through my mind, What have I lost, Do I have a backup on other drives (PC, CD), Can I recover any of it!! Just felt like my ass has lost it’s hole, How am I going to shit now??

In a frenzied state, I started to search for data recovery softwares thru Google and Download. Being a miser, I searched for Free ones first; but wasn’t satisfied. Then found some commercial shareware ones, Virtual Lab, R Studio, Disk Director by Acronis, Undelete Plus, NTFS Data Recovery, etc. Downloaded & installed all of them.

Virtual Lab worked for me, It found my files!! I was overjoyed, My ass saved!! Well, that’s what I thought, but not yet!! I still didn’t have the files. So I checked out the price for Virtual Lab… 200 USD. I didn’t know what to do!! I mean, my data was so precious (because of all the porn files kidding) that I cud pay much more. But then I didn’t wan’t to pay that much either. I knew there would be cheaper ones, that will do the job. Started searching again and tried R Studio.

R Studio had all that I needed (NTFS & partition restore) & much more. I scanned the full Hard Drive. It found stuff, but
initially, it showed the files and folders, not with their original names, but with names like $$$54132$$$. And I was like, what do I do with those $$$? But when I previewed the files, it magically got all the correct names and folders. Yipee!! I was absolutely delighted. Finally after a whole day of strugglin n fiddling , I got all my stuff back, intact. So will share a few learnings from this experience!!

Learnings

• Disconnect all external drives, before formatting or re-imaging your computer
• If by mistake, your data has been lost. Don’t panic!! Even if you do, Do NOT save or write to the affected disk. Disconnect it immediately
• If the disk is making noises, probably the head has been damaged. Disconnect the power immediately. Do NOT power it up again as that can cause further damage.
• Try a few different data recovery softwares and find the one that best suits your needs. The price can range from 40 USD to 200 USD, of the ones mentioned above.
• Always have a 3 point backup plan (i.e. Your crucial data backed up at 3 different locations). That will save you most of the pain