Ok, so Hollywood will do what they did with China when trying to sell their movies there, Saudi’s will suddenly for some random reason be cool, popular and kind completely out of the blue.

Pioneer is a well known Japanese electronics company, they are still going strong, but have exited the optical disc drive business.

So no, Pioneer has not gone out of business, they have however changed focus from optical drives.

Based on your question, I will assume that you are inexperienced with computer hardware and advanced tools for rescuing data.

So let me be blunt, this a summary of what you should do:

1. Stop using the drive
2. Unplug the drive
3. Put the drive in a warm dry place
4. Assume that water has got into the drive
5. Give it time to dry completely
6. Start saving money, you’ll need it…
7. Start looking at data recover companies
8. Read reviews and check prices

There are tools you can use at home, but unless you have some understanding of the risks and have internalized them, you should not try them on this drive.

What you can do if you have a spare computer and spare external drive that you can test with is to experiment with that and learn how data recovery might work, unfortunately you probably won’t be able to exactly recreate a scenario as you are experiencing with the other drive, but it might be a decent learning experience.

As a general rule, I will try to standardize on Dell Ultrasharp monitors, now that they support 120hz, there is little reason for me to pick something else.

I am currently running a U2724D at home and it is brilliant!

IT guy here, what monitors have you used?

I don’t think I have ever found a monitor where you can’t change the input when the screen is off, usually when you press the input button the monitor will turn on to show the input menu.

This works with monitors from Dell, AOC, Philips, Lenovo and others.

You need to press the input button, not the generic menu button, but it has always worked for me.

T9 may have worked fine for english, but as a Swede, I remember it being shit for compound words like:

“Slussvaktarbostadshembiträde”

“järnvägstationskiosk”

“Diskrimineringsombudsman”

These are obviously obtuse examples, but all are valid swedish words.