Today, I decided to upgrade to Windows 10. I wanted to keep my old files on the current hard drive, I clicked on the keep old files option. Thanks to Windows, I lost everything. FML
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Thanksgiving
Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, my computer crashed and lost all of its data while I was making a back up. FML
Today, my computer stopped working. Me, the technology challenged one, decided to do a system recovery on it hoping that I could make it better. Turns out, system recovery means deleting all the files off the computer including family photos, music and assignments and starting fresh. FML
Today, I got a new computer because my old one crashed, deleting all music, photos, and documents. I still had all my music on my iPod though, and went to sync it to the new computer. By accident, my younger brother pulled the cord out before it was done, deleting all 3,000 songs forever. FML
Today, I lost two terabytes' worth of photos to a friend's incompetence. He said he could save me some money and fix my slow computer for free. He ended up wiping the hard drive, and along with it, my photography portfolio from the last five years. FML
Today, my computer crashed and corrupted my games files and deleted over 100 hours of saved data. I have to now start all over again. FML
Today, I woke up to find out that my phone, which contained all of my pictures and videos from the past year, had completely crashed. Despite trying everything, I couldn't recover any of the data, even from the cloud backup. All those memories, gone forever. FML
Today, my computer decided to upgrade to Windows 11, moments before I presented to dozens of people. I had to go solely by memory with no notes, graphs, or illustrations. FML
Today, I deleted a load of junk that was messing up my mother's computer. I don't know how I'm going to tell her I accidentally wiped out all of her wedding photos. FML
Today, my parents got me a new computer for my birthday. They also took the liberty of throwing out my old computer, with 8 years of photos, videos, music, documents, emails, and bookmarks on it. But that's okay, I had a backup. They threw that out too. FML
Today, I accidentally deleted my entire email inbox. Everything from the last 3 years. EV-ER-Y-THING. FML
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Top comments
stridick 9
YOU HAVEN'T LOST EVERYTHING!!! in events like this Windows creates a backup. you'll find ALL your files in the "windows.old" folder. just search it up!!!
Mauskau 36
Don't trust them when it says it'll retain your old files, you need to always back up your files before upgrading or changing your OS. Sometimes Windows is nice enough to put your files in a folder on the Windows drive called "windows.old" which would be where everything you had on that drive before would be saved. However I don't know if they kept that feature in Windows 10.
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joshi42 16
Back. Up.
tomvertigo 17
windows.old It's all there.
Octopudding 17
It actually kept all my files.
PO_linesman 4
YDI for not backing up. Always, before a major system upgrade, back up your files. It doesn't matter whether it's Windows, Linux or MacOS, or whether they offer to keep your files. There's always a possibility of things going pear-shaped with any major system upgrade.
Amranih 20
not possible u must did something wrong
acidonymous 10
this happened to my boyfriend too. it completely destroyed his hard drive and he needed a new one.
pntgirl95 14
I didn't have that option, it just upgraded like a regular update and didn't touch my files. odd.
cocoa020 6
YDI, most everyone knows you have to back up your hard drive, and if you're really paranoid, double and triple back it up. Blindly trusting Windows will lead to this. Invest in a large memory USB drive or an external hard drive and now back up every so often. It's not too expensive now, and worth it
kekguy 8
I upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 8 and everything was the same including my task bar and desktop
MrJenksMan 1
That simply doesn't happen. In your c drive, look for a folder called "windows old" they will be in there.