Ever have this happen to you? You wake up and go on your computer, you type in your password to access your external hard drive, and it doesn't open? So you try and try again, only for your efforts to prove fruitless and in the end, your hard drive forces you to delete everything off it in order to access it?

Well, it sure as shit happened to me today, and I'm not at all happy about it either. So now I have to go and get everything I lost back from the internet (or at least, what I can, since a lot of my stuff was on my external HD for almost four years).

Wish me luck guys. I'm going to need every last bit of it.

(09/06/2014 Update: Same thing almost happened to me again. Luckily though, I was able to avoid it this time.)