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
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Wild Nights Out
Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
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 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 computer crashed and lost all of its data while I was making a back up. 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 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, 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 let my mother use my computer for school work. Later that day my mom asks me what's wrong with the computer. I look at it, only seeing a "Welcome to Windows XP" screen. She said that she saw a blue screen and pressed L and C when it asked her to. My mom managed to clear my hard drive. FML
Today, the new office IT guy figured the best way to get the virus off my computer was to wipe my entire hard drive. He was kind enough to back my data up and restore everything from the backups. Including the virus. FML
Today, my external hard drive broke. My husband tried to fix it, and the computer told him he needed to format it. Apparently he didn't know what formatting does, so he did it. I'm a wedding photographer and had a full summer of unfinished wedding photography on there. 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
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flinkpamingo 0
YOU NEVER PUSH BUTTONS WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW FOR SURE WHAT IT WILL DO! Crap! That is one of the first lessons you learn as a child! Didn't your mom tell you not to touch things that you don't know about? Did you not pay attention?
KTFO 0
leave it alone man..
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OP_here 0
except...that's NOT what system recovery does (doesn't affect files) and you can restore (ie undo going bak to ur last recovery point) anyway
akorpija 12
Live boot with a Linux disc such as Ubuntu (www.ubuntu.com). It's a free operating system. The "Live Boot" lets you run the operating system (Ubuntu) without installing it. This gives you the ability to browse files and folders on your computer. Plug in a USB drive and save your files to that. Or find a geeky friend to do it. Next time, don't **** around. And NEVER pay someone to fix your computer.
Eric7452 0
I love how people don't bother to read or educate themselves before they comment on things they obviously do not understand. There were three possibilities here. System Restore, System Recovery, and vanilla Windows install. System Restore does not affect data, only system settings, installed programs, updates, etc. This can be accessed directly from the Windows operating system, rather easily. System Recovery (what the OP did) is only found on prebuilt computers (HP, Dell, etc.) It takes a copy of the system files (usually on their own partition, or off a set of discs) and uses those to quick format the primary partition and re-install the operating system, complete with drivers, bundled software, etc. Vanilla Windows install is done directly from a Windows disc. It gives you partition table options, quick formats whatever partition you tell it to install to, and installs the operating system. Some drivers (typically ethernet, VGA, audio and chipset) are missing, and need to be installed manually. To the OP: If you want a chance at recovering any data off the old machine, the best thing to do is pull the hard drive, connect it to a working computer, and use a piece of software called "GetDataBack for NTFS". However, the more you have used the machine since this happened, the lower your chance is going to be of recovering non-corrupted information, since all your old data is marked as blank space now. Next time, don't do anything to your operating system without being 100% sure what the consequences are going to be. Either bring it somewhere that is going to be able to find the problem, or get a friend who knows what they're doing to look at it. Lesson learned the hard way, unfortunately. Oh, and to whoever suggested using a LiveCD. Yes, what a great idea, give an inexperienced user total, unprotected control over all their system files. People who try and use Ubuntu to fix problems when they don't know how to use Ubuntu just make things worse. Unless you know Linux CLI, you can do the same things in Windows anyways.
Lifelooser_fml 0
Someone did that to my computer i feel your emense pain.
shoehorn5 0
OP is a ******* retard
shadowskater 0
YDI for not trying to ask someone what it does first
timeoffire45 8
YDI for doing one of the most basic things in computing history (when you FREELY ADMIT that you're technologically challenged) and not knowing what it does. As they say all over the internet, "Ur doin it rong!"
ramakandra 3
YDI for not knowing wtf youre doing. instead of doing a repair you most likely reinstalled windows you idiot! once again theres proof of why most people should NOT, under any circumstance, be allowed to use a computer!
Charlotteeexx 0
omfg I did that! had to then pay £50 to get the harddrive fixed, I'm 14.
Tendrax 0
You deserve it. Don't ******* touch a computer if you don't know what you're doing, get the hell off my internet.