Miscellaneous: Today, my 20-year-old son's external hard-drive stopped working....

By OytoBeAfather - 16/05/2012 03:05 - United States - Nesconset

Today, my 20-year-old son's external hard-drive stopped working. He's crying on my shoulder now, not because of the movies, porn, work, or music he probably lost, but because of the now irretrievable complete series of Digimon that he'd collected. 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

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By photogirl - 30/08/2010 18:42 - United States

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

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Always save to the cloud!

By beachedwhale21 - 22/06/2020 05:01

Today, I finally finished typing up a story I had been working on for about 7 months, saved it on my computer and left to hang with friends. Came home later to find my dad had sold my laptop in order to pay his phone bill. My hard work is now gone. FML

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By testom - 17/04/2015 18:15 - Netherlands - Rotterdam

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

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By Anonymous - 08/04/2023 12:00 - Canada - Québec

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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ICastillo 24

Wednesday 16 May 2012 8:51

Well who wouldn't cry digimon is awesome.

yoursucklives 36

Wednesday 16 May 2012 8:52

i understand him. it's like he lost his childhood.

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igive 29

Wednesday 16 May 2012 9:36

a cartoon that's like pokemon but not. it's what you watch Saturday morning while eating a bowl of cereal

chellyX92 8

Wednesday 16 May 2012 9:43

I remember the first time I saw that show. I was upset that Pokemon wasn't on then I noticed this new cartoon and it was love at first site. I'd be upset too if a ENTIRE series that I can not get back was gone in less time then it took to obtain it. See if it can get fixed if not, see if there's a way to get a hold of the series. I'm not sure if it ever made it to DVD I remember it on VHS. Doesn't hurt to look.

doodlecloud 26

Wednesday 16 May 2012 11:28

The first series definitely made it to DVD as did the compilation movie I think...all the series should be available online though.

doodlecloud 26

Wednesday 16 May 2012 9:48

I have a lot of digimon...I'm pretty sure it's still downloadable. He needs to work on getting what was important back (digimon or work) not crying - that won't help anyone.

ShadowPeo 11

Wednesday 16 May 2012 10:00

Depending on why it's dead either pull the had from the casing and install it directly, use data recovery software, replace board on the hdd with one from the EXACT SAME MODEL, or stick it in a seals bag in the freezer for a while (ensure there is no chance of condensation) one of those will fix the issue 90% of the time, oh and perhaps he has now learned the value of backups