God Fucking Damnit

I recommend making backups in the future and storing them in completely different folders. Different drives if you can.
Just yesterday, a friend of mine was exclaiming his amusement over the fact that he recently found the backup to a novel he had deleted months ago. It was somewhat amusing because he had managed to be smart enough to make a backup then dumb enough to forget about the backup when purging the file.

Commiserations, but, other than learning from your mistakes, I doubt there's much you can do on this..

~Blessed be

You could try rewriting them. You'll be surprised how much will come back to you. I've rewritten stuff I wrote years ago word for word without even realising it.

u could always try Recuva...

when's it due?

These were creative writings, none of it was for school. I do feel a bit better though, after some uplifting words from friends.

To me, a bit, being only one eighth of a single byte, doesn't seem worth the many, many bytes of data you have lost. Is there anything we can help with that may increase your feelings by a bit or two more?

~Blessed be

Shit. I write myself, and I can imagine how I'd feel if I lost some of my really old stuff. Sorry, mate.

I did that before!
i wrote a whole chapter for my fanfiction AND MY CHARGER FELL OUT AND MY LAPTOP STARTED HIBERNATING!!!
anyways when i turned my laptop back on it stuffed up anyway and deleted it!
MAN I WAS MAD!!!

That happened with me and some of my compositions once. I was damned angry as well, though some of them still lurk on other comps. Sorry to hear about this.

I'm sorry for your loss.

I made a blog about the same thing when it happened to me. Data loss sucks. Now I have a small box of USB sticks. One for photos, one for work documents, one for personal writing, one for game plugins/skins. I update them every few months.

If spending money isn't your taste, just attatch it all to an email and send it to yourself. *Starts to hum 'Rikki Don't Lose That Number'*

But yeah, it really, really sucks. It's a bit late for backup advice, but just remember a) The odds are if it is really vital you'll probably have copied it somewhere else, b) Everything else can be remade and c) At least it's given your PC a good clear out, so it might run a little better.

Did you empty your recycle bin?

i recommend your mother.

She is very good. What did you think, Sam?

oh, tell me about it. i didn't know the body could bend that way.