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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You deserved it 54 741

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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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You deserved it 7 088

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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You deserved it 31 495

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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You deserved it 4 173

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

I agree, your life sucks 26 316

You deserved it 16 478

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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You deserved it 2 446

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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You deserved it 348

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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You deserved it 3 551

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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You deserved it 2 693

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

I agree, your life sucks 40 201

You deserved it 7 447

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

luke11 0

Monday 5 October 2009 2:03

Does your computer work now?

SpringLoaded12 0

Monday 5 October 2009 2:21

Alright, stuff like this is starting to piss me off. Note to all PC users who frequently ask for help with them: Learn how to use your computers, so we don't have to show you all the time. Note to all Mac users: Quit acting smug when you see a PC or PC user mess up every once in a while. You know less about computers than they do.

Pandarsenic 0

Monday 5 October 2009 2:34

Good job, that's actually "formatting your hard drive" that you seem to have done. Winner.

captainmaharet 1

Monday 5 October 2009 2:34

Ya think? YDI

markrrrrr 0

Monday 5 October 2009 3:18

You, sir, are and idiot. ^__^

nikkodomius 0

Monday 5 October 2009 3:23

It is still possible to recover data from your hard drive after it has been formatted. Shut the computer down now and bring it to a data recovery specialist. It's not cheap either, but if the stuff that was on it was important to you, do it.

satanstoystore 0

Monday 5 October 2009 3:59

why the posts about not judging etc? if they were judged in these instances maybe they would feel bad about doing ignorant things and would actually stop themselves before causing damage. clearly feeling good about being ignorant doesnt do anything.

cat83 0

Monday 5 October 2009 4:31

moron.

LilaBear 1

Monday 5 October 2009 4:32

*headdesk headdesk* I know a thing or two about computers, and I'd never try something as significant as a system recovery without doing some research to find out what it would do.

shirvon100 0

Monday 5 October 2009 4:35

Its ok man it happens to the best of us, about a year and ahlf ago I unwittingly did it to my desktop and Ive been using computers since i was 3 years old. FYL