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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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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jay100cp 0
its possible the OP did not do a system restore like all your ppl are bashing her for, but restored her computer to factory settings
biozombays 0
Well that's what happens when you pull stupid ass things like that before asking advice. Idiot.
wordgirl 0
Dude! That thing has pop-up warnings ALL OVER IT telling you that it's going to delete all of your files. You are not technology challenged. You are too lazy to read.
giratina16 0
comptards its a shame
Asavar 0
"System restore does not affect any of your documents, pictures, or other personal data, and the process is reversible." Taken directly from system restore. You're bad, OP. **** yourself.
LilaBear 2
He/She did a system RECOVERY. When will you people learn to read? 50% of the posters on here are like "FAKE system restores don't do that!" when the OP clearly said they did a RECOVERY.
dtown1200 0
you are an idiot! "system RESTORE" wat the heck do you think restore means
_YDI 0
YDI for being really, really stupid
realggirl 0
I did the same thing about 2 years ago. It actually says on the screen that you won't lose any data, which is a lie. =( YLIF.
Twin_Uzis 0
That's not what it does. You need an eraser disk for that. I don't know WHAT you did, but you ****** up.
serpheris 0
There are two options in system restore besides choose a date, and the last restore point. thats to actually do a system restore or restore to factory settings. At least thats what ive always seen