Miscellaneous: Today, my computer stopped working. Me, the technology challenged...

By rebeccaremily - 04/10/2009 07:03 - Canada

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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By Anonymous - 21/09/2009 20:22 - United States

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 not living happily ever after - 02/12/2014 17:02 - United States - Virginia Beach

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

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By mlowy - 09/05/2014 05:35 - Azerbaijan - Baku

Today, my computer crashed and lost all of its data while I was making a back up. FML

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By ThisGirl - 21/08/2012 02:30 - United States - Kennesaw

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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By computergeek - 26/01/2010 21:25 - United States

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

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Time to rebuild

By Anonymous - 06/08/2022 12:00

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

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By artiemilano - 15/10/2009 19:42 - United States

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

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Genius move

By Soopa-Genius - 22/09/2011 12:06 - Canada

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

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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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Restore device

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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You deserved it 184

flinkpamingo 0

Sunday 4 October 2009 16:06

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

Sunday 4 October 2009 16:03

leave it alone man..

Comments

hackwack123 0

Sunday 4 October 2009 23:17

Ive done that

FrickAndFrack 0

Sunday 4 October 2009 23:51

Dude, it's not that hard to fix. Just undo the system restore.

somekid87 0

Monday 5 October 2009 0:09

should of got a mac

martron3000 5

Monday 5 October 2009 0:25

You should have an external hard drive and always back up anything you want to keep to that drive before attempting anything like a system recovery. Regular backups are a good idea anyway, just in case the main drive in the computer should fail. You can buy a 1 terabyte external drive for only about $100, which is worth it to protect your important files.

_system_ 0

Monday 5 October 2009 0:57

Bullshit. System restore does not delete any data at all. That's drive formatting...

mj23la 0

Monday 5 October 2009 1:12

Your a flat out dumbass listen and learn..... System restore is when you restore your computer to a date that you set it too before hand. System RECOVERY is when you restore your computer back to the FACTORY SETTINGS! Meaning everything gets deleted and is restored to its orginal state like brand new in a box. Restoring it is when you restore it back to the date you set it too. Got it genius?

Wooloff 0

Monday 5 October 2009 1:10

Seems like at least half of you don't know the difference between "system recovery" and "system restore". Isn't it hilarious how quickly you are to insult the OP, when it's soooooo obvious you haven't a clue either?

mj23la 0

Monday 5 October 2009 1:14

Exactly what I was thinking at least someone has a sense of mind. Read my comment for the guy who said...Bullshit. System restore does not delete any data at all.....WOW its so hilarious how dumb people can be when trying to insult someone.

ajlardner 0

Monday 5 October 2009 1:17

anyone saying system restore doesn't delete, it doesn't. she did a system recovery, which, to my knowledge is like REINSTALLING WINDOWS and wiping your hard drive. my computer died and 46

Shadow_Phantom 26

Monday 5 October 2009 1:17

YDI for using Windows.

Charlie96 0

Monday 5 October 2009 1:22

I did the same thing before too but the files are still in your computer. Go into your file search and type in the name of something that you had saved on your computer and you should be able to find everything again. I thought I lost all my stuff too but I managed to find it all.