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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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TheNewGuy03 29
A few things to keep in mind: 1) Obviously, backup, backup, backup. If you upgrade anything, back your shit up. A "windows.old" folder is created by default if you choose the option to back files up. Save all of your important documents to an external drive *by default*. For some very specific programs, I have saved their setup.exe files to my external HDD just in case. 2) Windows 10 is a new OS. There *will* be problems, simply because it's a new OS. It may be seamless for one person, and be riddled with problems for another, and it's mostly due to hardware. For me, my Bluetooth devices ceased to sync when I upgraded to W10, but resumed functionality after installing an older version of the driver. 3) For W8 users: W10 is a better OS, but I had no problem with W8, because you can simply download a Start button. From that point on, I used W8 just like W7.
dansco 25
Come on why haven't you got some kind of file back up? You should have backed up your own files before doing this. Hope you find them but go out and buy an external hard drive or online backup.
Glausfear 3
Dont blame programing, I downloaded windows 10 the day it came out, its all click and play, you just suck at using a computer
Witchylady 18
Haven't you heard of a back up
limegreenpoopie 31
You're not the only one..
mayhemily 7
I was considering upgrading. Now I sure as hell won't.
seaboundrhino813 8
They put a disclaimer saying to back up your data. ydi.
Tsukiyomi 16
Sucks to be you Should've stuck with 7
Jerakl 21
IMO, 10 is better if you turn off all the tracking stuff and make a local account. They added said tracking stuff to 8/7 in a recent update too.
cyberskirt 7
uhhh... what? that never came up on my machine or any machine I have upgraded.
Eariel 5
I upgraded and it neither asked about files nor touched anything installed. I'm guessing you were using a preview copy or something a little bit more fishy.