Today, I decided to upgrade to Windows 10. I wanted to keep my old files on the current hard drive, I clicked on the keep old files option. Thanks to Windows, I lost everything. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my computer crashed and lost all of its data while I was making a back up. 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, 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 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 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 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
Today, my computer decided to upgrade to Windows 11, moments before I presented to dozens of people. I had to go solely by memory with no notes, graphs, or illustrations. 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 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, I accidentally deleted my entire email inbox. Everything from the last 3 years. EV-ER-Y-THING. FML
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stridick 9
YOU HAVEN'T LOST EVERYTHING!!! in events like this Windows creates a backup. you'll find ALL your files in the "windows.old" folder. just search it up!!!
Mauskau 36
Don't trust them when it says it'll retain your old files, you need to always back up your files before upgrading or changing your OS. Sometimes Windows is nice enough to put your files in a folder on the Windows drive called "windows.old" which would be where everything you had on that drive before would be saved. However I don't know if they kept that feature in Windows 10.
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Nessco 36
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
That's Microsoft for you. Move to Linux.
thawny_fml 21
Said no one intelligent ever.
SuperCasual 13
I mean, if you're programming Linux is the superior os, and programmers are generally intelligent
wolf12king 12
Yeah however to the common fool it is bad they would prefer a much larger corporation to make and monitor you OS.
OverBlossomed 22
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Lalala579121 28
And since OP didn't back up all their files before doing the upgrade, they're obviously not intelligent and therefore shouldn't use Linux.
Nessco 36
@101, a decent response. I can accept my defeat with a comment like yours. :)
katachristic 19
There are more friendly Linux distros by now that just work out of the box. It's not like you have to use the terminal for everything anymore (even if it is faster).
Asymmetrical 6
I love you.
memeometer 11
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
Back up on a hard drive before u make any major changes u absolute moron
PotatoeNumberOne 8
wow that's unnecessary...
JMichael 26
Highly unnecessary. Not everyone has your supposed common sense there buddy.
Omfgitsmia 15
Name calling isn't necessary, but common sense isn't common. In this day and age, everyone knows to back up to an external hard drive before updating your OS.
memeometer 11
Shut up u buttfucker
JMichael 26
And here children, we have your everyday internet troll. While typically harmless they do tend to be an annoyance.
jbuckets_404 39
Obviously not everybody :-( Flash thumb drives work well as well as knowing enuf to initially create a second partition for said personal documents & even installation/ setup files for non-Windows apps.
Mauskau 36
Don't trust them when it says it'll retain your old files, you need to always back up your files before upgrading or changing your OS. Sometimes Windows is nice enough to put your files in a folder on the Windows drive called "windows.old" which would be where everything you had on that drive before would be saved. However I don't know if they kept that feature in Windows 10.
stridick 9
they do have it. my installation was in another language for whatever reason and because of that I screwed up the install, but I got everything I needed from that folder
tencentsakiss 19
I believe they did.
dylanj0119 15
When I updated to Windows 10 I didn't have to do this and it's been fine...
pdp_fml 21
You need to back up your files off of your computer, but now you know that.
False_Stupidity 42
Funny thing is it even tells you to back up your files just in case things go wrong.
stryder9090 28
Don't you hate it Windows damn technology devices don't work the way they're supposed to...what a pane in the ass.
LunaRebirth 7
Windows... Pane... lol
Kristoffer 35
I can almost believe that term was chosen on purpose. Windows pain and window panes.
ObeyTheWaves 11
Tried a bit too hard to get that pun off...
stridick 9
YOU HAVEN'T LOST EVERYTHING!!! in events like this Windows creates a backup. you'll find ALL your files in the "windows.old" folder. just search it up!!!
False_Stupidity 42
You're right, in fact the windows 10 upgrade keeps everything in the windows drive by default so that you can roll back to windows 7 or 8.1 (whichever you had) within 30 days.
RadikulRam 16
You can also always use a program like Parted Magic, as long as you didn't overwrite the 1's and 0's. Most formatting options don't do this, they just keep the old files (which are 1's and 0's) and rewrite them over time, to give you your memory back.
I_Like_Dogs 28
Good guy Windows
Xivion 19
Definitly check windows.old and while you're at it make sure you need with the privacy settings too! I've never seen such an invasive os. Don't get me wrong, still loving it! Just gotta make sure it's not accessing your: microphone, video camera, calendar, your contacts, apps that use feedback, or keeps other apps running in the background like: calendar, photos, one drive, Xbox, alarm clock.... Etc
gotbeer 7
You could use recovery program called Recuva.
mattiscg 22
that wont work since he upgraded the OS
moneylessrc 15
I work at a computer repair shop, and recuva doesn't work great for deleted files, but there are some free programs that do. if you want them, shoot me a message.
DirtyOldMan 5
backup dude. you deserve it.
tdawg91 17
I voted YDI on this too. I'm so surprised at the amount of people that don't think to back up their important things on a computer
thecrazymancan 17
I'm amazed that people don't backup EVERYTHING. I hope the new version of Windows comes with automagic snapshot backup software.
TheDraconis 8
same thing happened to me, then I didn't even get windows 10
TheGamingGamer 28
Damn.
viperAUS 15
op i feel you're pain i did it too