I plugged in my external harddrive (the harddrive which stores much of the raw footage accumulated during this project and all the episodes compiled for YouTube) and flipped the switch. Nothing happened. I check the cords, make sure everything is plugged in – nada.
The worst case scenario is now here: something has broken which is critical to the continuation of this project.
I’m a big believer in Murphy’s Law – so I was kind of expected something like this to happen. I’m kind of annoyed that it is this particular harddrive that failed – because I really went out of my way to try and get my hands on a LaCie harddrive here in Bangladesh. I ordered it from Amazon.com and sent it to a professor in the States who happened to be flying to Bangladesh.
It only lasted a month – whereas the Western Digital Harddrives I’ve been using for a good part of a year are chugging along just fine.
There aren’t many options available. This HD is a big investment and I’d like to have it repaired under warranty – and maybe have a way of retrieving the data that was on it. But the nearest location that will repair it under warranty is in Singapore. At the cost of flying to Singapore, I could just as easily fly home. I’d buy a replacement harddrive, but part of the reason I’ve gone to such lengths to get harddrives is because decent harddrive enclosures are hard to obtain in Bangladesh.
I’ll keep you guys posted. It is starting to look like I may need to fly back home – even if only temporary.
I hope you have DVD backups. Its always handy to have a backup in two different formats..in case…
I’m glad that you have gone this far to get these footage and the stories of these poor people. I hope you will continue with your project and everything goes well while you continue to work on your project. Please let me know if I can offer any help: including the computer hard drive
All the best,
Ahasan
Washington, D.C.
Do you still have your tapes (assuming you shoot in DV?)? I know it’d be a royal pain to do days / months of production work all over again, but the good thing is that the second time through goes by a lot quicker, speaking from my past experiences of losing important term papers and screenplays and other such things.
Hey Will – yeah thankfully it’s all on DV-tape and I don’t overwrite my old tapes! I’d be gutted if I lost 21 hours of footage without any way to retrieve it.
As salam alaikum brother Shawn.
Ok so this hard drive has gone bust… now flying all the way back to canada to get a new one sounds crazy.. im gona look online and see if i can find you one and get it over to you there in bagladesh inshAllah…
Sisters and brothers and freinds of this beautifull project … lets help our freind shawn here and get him a new hard drive.. one dollar can do alot..
Shawn bro if you got any info bout this HD please let me know.
ur sis in islam