Today, while trying to fix a corrupted USB hard drive with my wife’s computer I accidentally wiped her laptop drive instead of clearing the external drive. I’m not allowed on her computers anymore. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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 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, my mom borrowed my computer without my permission and downloaded a virus. I came home to a blue screen of death. She refuses to admit fault and pay for a new computer. FML
Today, my computer crashed and lost all of its data while I was making a back up. FML
Today, I asked my wife for her computer password because my computer crashed. After minutes of begging her, she finally told me. Turns out that her password happens to be her ex's name. 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, my husband accidentally erased some pictures from our hard drive. No worries, nothing major: just everything from our wedding and the birth of our first child. 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, 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, 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
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Inkoseh 33
I...that's a pretty big ****-up. I mean, all this shit is labelled somewhat well for anyone who's done it a few times. Following a guide as a first timer, even moreso. A USB external drive can be formatted while you're already booted and in Windows, making those labels even easier to see as you can go back to basics and see what drive shows up when you unplug and plug in. No, you shouldn't be near her computer anymore, lol.
tounces7 28
If you didn't know what the hell you were doing, why were you touching it in the first place?
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Inkoseh 33
I...that's a pretty big ****-up. I mean, all this shit is labelled somewhat well for anyone who's done it a few times. Following a guide as a first timer, even moreso. A USB external drive can be formatted while you're already booted and in Windows, making those labels even easier to see as you can go back to basics and see what drive shows up when you unplug and plug in. No, you shouldn't be near her computer anymore, lol.
tounces7 28
If you didn't know what the hell you were doing, why were you touching it in the first place?
RichardPencil 32
You shouldn't be allowed on any computers anymore. Abacuses can be fun.
Blimix 9
On the one hand, yeah, she's right. On the other hand, I'm the computer person in the household, and I've come within half a second of doing that once or twice. It is disturbingly easy to click the wrong drive or partition in some operating systems, especially in the middle of something complex, when you can't spare the attention for every single time the computer asks you to confirm. "Do you really want to overwrite this file?" "Yes, this is the newer version of the same file. Stop bugging me." "Do you really want to remove this partition?" "Yes, that's exactly what I have to do to fix it. Oh, wait. Wrong partition. Fuuuuuuuu-"
DarkAngelsBlade 25
It's a laptop, which means it's likely a one drive one partition.
DarkAngelsBlade 25
That's literally so hard to do, you really shouldn't be deleting anything on a computer like at all.