Trembling Essence: ⚠️🛠️My old laptop crashed: Mini Update 🛠️⚠️
Helloooo guys, since we're a little more than halfway through August here's a little update into how things are going behind the scenes since my old laptop crashed on July 24th and I want to keep this situation transparent.
Were you able to fix it?:
Sadly not yet. Since the crash I've been troubleshooting as much as I can and learning new ways to make sure this never happens again. With that being said, after a lot of trial and error the SSD I was temporarily given is finally working and I was able to boot windows back up, the only downside is that my operating system isn't detecting my actual hard drive at all now so I'm still trying to figure out how to recover my data from it or at least make it detectable again.
Any good news?:
Well... I do have a little bit of good news but I CAN'T guarantee anything right now. I'm going to try out what I've learned through all of this and apply it towards the external hard drive instead since it didn't crash but "glitched out". I still have certain drawing files, pictures, screenshots, sfx's, music from the game etc. that are still accessible but I didn't transfer anything/reset it just yet which might've been a very good thing from what I've discovered so far.
What might be recoverable???:
- All game development progress from March up until the July 24th
- The "guide-mark" + other things I had written in my notes
- Day 4
- The new user interface for the game + resources
- Some of Noah's Voice lines
- Certain folders etc. / Anything I had saved on the laptop and not on the back up hard drive.
- My drawing tablet program
For the next couple of days I'm going to try my best at testing this out and seeing what'll happen so I don't have too much else to say.
Anywho this is all I have to share until the next devlog at the end of the month but thank you guys so much for all the continued support while I've been trying to figure this out and being extremely quiet. Again, please remember to:
- Back everything up to a external hard drive, USB, etc. and not just to the laptop itself.
- Make sure you're not overwhelming storage on your laptop. etc.
- Take pictures of certain things you might need to come back to.
- Try to stay organized and don't give up!
To those that joined my ->[Patreon], You guys will get first dibs on the celebration once I'm able to recover stuff from my "old laptop" and when I'm able to finish the previous drawing winner.
If anyone has any advice or guide into fixing the issue regarding the crash/hard drive not being detected I'd really appreciate the help! :,,]