mlowy
Baku, Azerbaijan
Today, my computer crashed and lost all of its data while I was making a back up. FML
Collection
Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Same thing different taste
Anonymous
Time to rebuild
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
Fuck AI
Gotta keep those data centers irrigated
Today, my house was broken into and my computer was stolen. Fortunately, I have cloud backups of all my work; unfortunately, hardware prices have gone through the roof and I won't be able to replace that computer soon. FML
Anonymous
Québec, Canada
Restore device
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
rebeccaremily
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
Anonymous
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
Anonymous
Get on with it!
Today, I went to turn in a coding project a few days early. After months of working on a code and saving backups, everything is gone or corrupted. I have to start from square one and turn it in less than 48 hours from now. FML
Anonymous
United States
Thanks, Bill
Today, I was busy writing my English final paper and all of a sudden my computer just chose to freeze. I thought Microsoft Word would save it, but alas, 4 pages down the dumpster. Plus my earphones stopped working and I can't afford to buy a new pair. FML
Soopa-Genius
Canada
Genius move
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
ThisGirl
Kennesaw, United States
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
Depressed
All that for nothing
Today, due to some highly corrupted data that I had nothing to do with and no control over, around 5 years of pixel art I'd made, and spent most of my free time working on, has been permanently deleted, and there is no way to recover it. FML
Top comments
Puffytruffles 18
Did you try turning it off and on?
FindingYujin 26
That has got to be one of the worst feelings ever. Did you throw the monitor to the ground?
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Comments (74)
communisttaco 16
Just stop downloading ****...
kinky44 28
Never
SnazzyPotter 17
I love it when a profile picture matches a comment
communisttaco 16
Of course, that was sarcasm... I read on the Internet that computer viruses are a myth created by the government
Dcm210 19
Go on reddit and ask for help. Acronis The Image Home is a good software.
foxwasalamb 24
karmas a bitch. what have you done lately?
1dvs_bstd 41
sounds like you're karma.. get it?
igive 29
Your mom!
foxwasalamb 24
takes a bitch to call someone a bitch
lex87author 8
I'm betting the computer was starting to have issue and that's why you tried to back it up. Unfortunately many people don't think about backups until the computer is already having problems. Sucks OP, but once it happens once it won't happen again because you'll always backup now!
mlowy 17
You are extremely right! My laptop was beginning to become slow and started to lag a lot so I thought the best idea would be to back it up then. I back up almost every month now, so I'm not worried anymore! :)
foxmatrix15 8
Happened to me too man.. Even backups of backups go bad..
schhichick 14
that sucks! try keeping any important documents/pictures/videos etc on Google docs since you can access them anywhere and its automatically saved .
papayeya 18
by crashed u mean system is down? In that case no u didnt lost ur data it is still there.. go to a computer geek or a computer repair shop ask them to hook ur hard drive to ome of tjeir computers and copy what u want.. to their hard drive. next let them fix ur system.. mostly it is a missing file.. let them get it and if worked then delete the data just copied otherwise let them fix it and then copy ur data back. dont forget to delete the data at their computer if the hard disk is damaged ask them to fix it.. it can be fixed and at least u can retirve ur data ... Trust me we do this :) Good luck OP
clrichmond2009 24
You should really try proofreading.
GetGulley 12
The irony man
BunchieRules 31
Without punctuation, I read your comment as the name of a bad superhero. "Irony Man to the rescue!"
justsomerandguy 8
Do you mean, whatever backup software you're using destroyed your data (in that case, look for safer way of doing it in the future), or was it just an unfortunate coincidence (you almost saved your data, when a crash hit)?
worldclassrager 41
Horrible luck...flash drives and external hard drives have saved me...try the same
Pingvinai 37
The irony is just plain comical.