Vaio X Damaged

It's not been long since Sony launched the Vaio X in India. Within days of getting mine, I had to pack it off to a Data Recovery Service. It's compact and extremely light, therefore very easy to carry around. But it's advantage also turns into it's major problem. The thing is so light, it can easily just slip out of your hands and fall. Even worse, if you keep it somewhere, you have to keep a check that no one keeps anything heavy on it. Although it is rigid, there is a limit to how much impact it can sustain. It could break as mine did.

I had loaded the laptop with all kinds of things—downloaded all the applications one could possibly use on a computer. PhotoShop, Picassa, iTunes, and a whole lot of other things. The point of using a laptop like Vaio was that I could carry it with me easily. This meant that I didn't have to bother about having a separate 'laptop bag'-- it fitted into my back-pack.

Some days ago, I had kept it on my bed while packing and without realizing, I piled a whole lot things on it. Now if they were light things, then there would be no problem. But as my luck would have it I put my dvd player, and a couple of other things on top of everything. The bottom-line is that once I removed the whole heap of things from it, I found the Vaio broken.

But now I had lost all my data from it.

The first reaction I got from people was “didn't you take a back-up of your data?”. I did.

I took a back-up of the photos and music. The point is I didn't take any back-up of the important documents like word docs, excel sheets, presentations etc that I needed for all my projects etc. I just never thought that I would be in this hot water so soon. I was in a state of panic thinking that I would have to re-do all that work, and gather all the notes I had made.