mlowy
Baku, Azerbaijan
Today, my computer crashed and lost all of its data while I was making a back up. FML
Collection
Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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
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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)
SnowFangedBeauty 19
Well ****....
j_cat187 20
yid for not backing up your stuff more often. If you had enough time to make stuff of value, then you had plenty of opportunity to save it to more than 1 place.
FMLL2016 16
I love irony
BrotherTheo 31
Firstly, Drop Box. Drop Box and it's kin are SO your friend. Really. They're a total game changer. Secondly, as it's been said, the odds are although the Software on your computer may be borked your *data* is probably safe. One of your more tech Savvy folks can probably pull the drive, and get your data. Unless, of course, your hard drive is physically damaged. If the drive is damaged, you're looking at a couple of grand.....
loserman67 36
Computers and Miracle Whip - both products of Satan...
1dvs_bstd 41
Been there, lost most of the contacts on my phone. Every ******* thing! FYL
mario2012 18
Damn, that bytes.
Macherni 5
Then how are you posting on this site, liar?
False_Stupidity 42
As most have said, your data is probably still there so I hope you haven't done anything too drastic before posting on FML. At worst your backup software may have borked the partition table as the computer died and any decent file recovery program should be able to retrieve your stuff for you. I use file scavenger (which you need to pay for before it becomes useful) but there's probably some reasonable free ones out there.
Masonjar13 10
Pro-tip: any data that has been saved on the hard drive disk (HDD) is not lost until it's overwritten, even if it's deleted.