Having just finished up my work last night, I decided to keep my “creative juices” flowing and record some music.  Turntable-ism, as I like to call it, is a great hobby to get your mind off things.  At the same time I decided to run a virus check, just to make sure my laptop was up to snuff.  Everything was going fine until I tried to execute one more task.  I hit the function key on my laptop to swap monitor outputs and bam….I was paused up.  I waited for a few minutes, but I eventually got impatient and turned the computer off.  Upon reboot my jaw dropped…… “ntfs.sys not found”.

The computer wouldn’t boot.  I thought to myself “it’s over, this whole Motown thing is over, and it will be all my fault”  I hadn’t backed up the files in 6 months.  No one else involved with the project is housing all the files.   I am the only person who tracks all of the workflow.  Business plans, wireframes, and research, everything…it was all in limbo at this point.
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