There is no excuse for it. No form of technologic wizardry will bring it back. Your hard drive is dead and you neglected to make any backup of your files whatsoever. Years of family pictures and important documents, gone. Your personal collection of hilarious cat pictures, all gone. Sure, you could send in your hard drive to a restoration service (that could cost you a pretty large amount of cash), but couldn't this tragedy have been avoided?!?! Keep the following quote in mind when you think about your hard drive:
"There are only two types of hard drives - the ones that have failed and the ones that will fail."
So what can you do next time you're working on an important project??? BACK IT UP!!! In fact, you should back up all your "mission critical" files on a regular basis if they're so important.
You might be asking yourself, "What am I supposed to do? I don't have a USB drive/external hard drive/DVD burner, how am I gonna do this?" Well, if you have an email account @hotmail.com and an active internet connection then you've already taken a step in the right direction!
Windows Live! SkyDrive - http://skydrive.live.com
An online storage tool where you can store up to 25GB of files for FREE! Even though I have a Gmail account, I was able to sign up for Windows Live! without having to sign up for a @hotmail.com or @live.com email account. Go to https://signup.live.com and use your existing email account to set up your live account. You can access your SkyDrive account by going to http://skydrive.live.com were you can add folders and start uploading files.
If you're running Windows and you've signed up with an account, you can use a program called
