Welp, time to start anew.

So, this occurred to me the other day…

Yeah, my Event Viewer entries were definitely telling me that, yes, my drive was dying! It was working perfectly fine the other day, but not anymore! It's dead.

My external drive that I had every saved image of my fan characters (including some that are no longer on DeviantArt, due to the person deactivating their account) is dead, meaning that whatever was on the drive (photos, videos, finished renders, etc.) is gone for good.

Like what I said on my Discord server, my backup drive's dying, and I'm trying to salvage whatever I can save now. I tried doing that, but to no avail. I also tried running chkdsk /scan twice, and it failed due to insufficient memory, even though I have four gigs of RAM. So, I'm afraid this drive's dead. RIP to what I had on my external drive. And that system image as well, that was up-to-date, too. :(

So, yeah. My drive's dead, can't access it, load anything, or do anything. Welp, time to shop for a new drive, or fish out my old one that's from my old 2019 HP Notebook laptop (I have two) and start over from scratch. With every single file.

When did this start to happen?

I did trace back where and how long this has been going on, and turns out that the drive was showing problems on December 13th, 2023 at around 4:50 PM. So, the drive started to show symptoms of dying, which I obliviously didn't notice until it was too late. Then again, the nasty fall it had when it fell off my desk by accident definitely didn't help to anything at all, too.