Blogg → I'm Beggin'...

Gone. All of it. All 5,000 or so songs. All 42.3 gigs of music. All wiped out because Windows cannot read its own dynamic storage when running the setup utility. It claimed my media partition was "unpartitioned space". I thought it would be safe to install Windows on supposedly unpartitioned space. When Windows was installed, my music was gone.

Oh, but that's not the worst of it. I have a data recovery tool sitting around here, called Recover My Files. Damn good application. It even claims to be able to recover formatted drives. So, I figured I'd put its greatest boast to the test.

It found all of the mp3's...That is to say, it found about 15,000 or so mp3 files. All various chunks of songs. it's almost like having your music ripped away from you and shattered, then thrown back at you. "Here you are, kid. Enjoy listening to this fifteen second clip of The Devin Townsend Band."

Not all of it is truly lost. Only recently did I stop burning most of my music to CD's, so I have a large percentage of it still sitting around in CD booklets. I'll get on the task of ripping that tonight.

The point of this post, aside from lamenting this tragedy to those who might be able to understand how bad losing 42 gigs of music is, is to ask for help. Below I've listed the albums, by band, that I do not have backed up. If you could possibly find it in your heart to send me these albums, well, I would forever be grateful. I'm on a college network for another five days or so, so YouSendIt and similar services will have to do until then. Once I'm home we can do IM, IRC, whatever suits your fancy. I know most requests for filesharing go under the radar and aren't this blatant. But most requests for it aren't in the hopes of rebuilding a 42.3 gig music library that was lost by a combination of my admitted carelessness and Windows' tricky ways. If you have some moral issue with it, well, I understand. If you can contribute to my cause though, well...You'd rock hardcore. I will be editing the entry to reflect the albums I still haven't found a way to regain. So if you see it on this list, i could still use it. Without further adue....

Pain of Salvation One Hour By the Concrete Lake, Remedy Lane, Entropia, The Perfect Element Part I, Be
K's Choice Almost Happy, Cocoon Crash
Counting Crows This Desert Life
Terence Blanchard Flow, Bounce
Placebo Meds
Sarah Bettens Scream
Clutch The Elephant Riders, Clutch, Slow Hole to China, Transnational Speedway League
Opeth Damnation, Deliverance, Ghost Reveries, Blackwater Park, Still Life, Orchid, Morningrise
Guster Guster On Ice
Mae The Everglow
Pantera Reinventing the Steel
Chick Corea Three Quartets
Sevendust Next
Robin Trower Bridge of Sighs
Fear Factory Obsolete
Sufjan Stevens Illinois, Michigan, Seven Swans, Enjoy Your Rabbit
Sepultura Roots
Rush A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Vapor Trails
Nightwish Once, Angels Fall First
Yellowjackets Time Squared
SoilworkA Predator's Portrait, Natural Born Chaos
Porcupine TreeDeadwing, In Absentia
OSI Office of Strategic Influence
Neal Morse One, ?
Alien Ant Farm Truant
Sonata Arctica Silence
Kaki King Legs To Make Us Longer, Everybody Loves You
Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve, Chaosphere
Vanden Plas Beyond Daylight, Far Off Grace
Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire
Demons & Wizards Touched By the Crimson King
Devin Townsend Terrea, Ocean Machine, Accelerated Evolution, Synchestra, City, Alien (Yes, those include "The Devine Townsend Band" and "Strapping Young Lad")
Farmakon A Warm Glimpse
Evergrey In Search of Truth, Solitude Dominance Tragedy
Better Than Ezra Delux
Metallica Kill 'em All
Gonzalo Rubalcaba Rhapsodia, The Blessing, Supernova, Imagine, The Trio
DJ Shadow Endtroducing, The Private Press, The Private Repress
m-83 Before the Dawn Heals Us
T.I. I'm Serious
Eminem Curtain Call
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Free For All, Indestructible, Moanin', A Night In Tunisia
Lee Morgan Cornbread, Search For the New Land
Miles Davis Bitch's Brew
Bill Evans Live at Town Hall
Asylum Street Spankers Spanker Madness
Trapt Someone In Control
Herbie Hancock Headhunters
Machine Head Hellalive
Between the Buried and Me Alaska
Spirit Caravan The Last Embrace
Blues Traveler Four
Oceansize Everyone Into Position
Pure Reason Revolution The Dark Third
Superior Unique
Dave Matthews Band Complete Weekend On the Rocsk (Disc 6 only!)
Corrosion Of ConformityDeliverance


There's quite a bit more, but I want to see if this outlet for reacquiring music proves as beneficial as I'm hoping it will be. If you do upload anything, man, I can't thank you enough.

Edit Is Accurate as of 8:50 AM EDT, may 12