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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Top comments
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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Comments (189)
Ace4Of4Spades4 11
nice try, windows 10 upgrades don't have that option. create a new legit fml?
fabcade 14
I upgraded and it's fine all my files and everything. what happened?
backdoorman010 9
that's what happens when you put a new os on your computer. it wipes everything off of it. should have done your research beforehand. you deserve it
Shade1982 21
Maybe you should do your research. Win10 is provided as an upgrade (not a new install) to anyone, upgrades NEVER clean your HD before-hand (they also create back-ups of all replaced files, so op's files are most likely not lost, just misplaced). I've already done dozens of Win10 upgrades and not once were files lost.
fawndellmaibalz 11
I tried to upgrade to windows 10 and it fried my hd
rashpimplezitz 9
Thanks to you, you didn't make a backup. Luckily I'm 99% certain that Windows made a backup by itself.
Tannasgh 22
There's this concept called "Backing up"...
Hildy93 21
Windows sucks
limitles 14
Back up! Has no one told you to back up yet? Are you 12?
RockstarJAy 16
Actually, if you try looking in the backup drive file, you'll most likely find your files. Good luck!
beeferjay 34
I bought a 32gb jump drive because shit happens... 'merica