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
Collection
Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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 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 computer crashed and lost all of its data while I was making a back up. 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 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, 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 let my mother use my computer for school work. Later that day my mom asks me what's wrong with the computer. I look at it, only seeing a "Welcome to Windows XP" screen. She said that she saw a blue screen and pressed L and C when it asked her to. My mom managed to clear my hard drive. FML
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
Today, my external hard drive broke. My husband tried to fix it, and the computer told him he needed to format it. Apparently he didn't know what formatting does, so he did it. I'm a wedding photographer and had a full summer of unfinished wedding photography on there. 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
Feel like sharing it with the other FML users?
Thanks, your FML was submitted, and will appear in the moderation queue soon!
Top comments
flinkpamingo 0
YOU NEVER PUSH BUTTONS WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW FOR SURE WHAT IT WILL DO! Crap! That is one of the first lessons you learn as a child! Didn't your mom tell you not to touch things that you don't know about? Did you not pay attention?
KTFO 0
leave it alone man..
Add a comment · Reply to
You must be logged in to be able to post comments!
Comments (162)
Littledigz27 0
slick, well you did not use system restore than because that does not erase any of your personal files, it just uninstalls recently added programs and restores (SYSTEM) files. You used something else...
hiphopapotamuz 0
dumbass
crazyjack 0
DUH i'm a 16 year old girl and I know that =P and i'm not a technology freak. YDI big time!!!
roobear 2
So basically, you decided that it was a good idea to try to fix your computer yourself, even though you have absolutely no idea about them. And then you found out your deleted files are gone forever. This is quite possible the biggest YDI I've seen on this site yet. Next time, go to Best Buy and pay them 300 dollars so you don't mess it up yourself.
thefury 0
sounds like you did it wrong. what's worse it's the most simple way to fix a system. system restore should only target main system files and remove major changes to said files. this does not include you personal files, they have been moved to a different directory, that could and has happened before.
krivedko 0
what's happening? u all living in an information technology era and u don't know how to maintain a PC??? that's just crazy, isnt it? don't pay 300$ to best buy, go to any computer courses. i've recovered data from formatted and unreadable drives and that's not too complicated i must say. there's plenty software, even free that can help.
bleedingcowz 0
YDI for knowing you are technologically challenged and still attempting to fix the computer by yourself. It does say that it does delete files, you know.
canucknproud 0
tough luck but its no big deal really.there is tons of very good recovery tools that will bring back everything you lost anyway.most are pretty idiotproof and easy to use.dont know why you are getting so much grief over it-some people are naturally good with computers and some arent.but the advice on doing course to help you out rather then keep forking out a lot of dough for your pc problems....thats good advice!even formatting wont wipe out the stuff you have on the hard drive (unless you format multiple times b4 recovering files!)so so far so good.try download.com for file recovery tools -a few decent free ones and some good pay for ones.there are plenty of other sites with simular stuff too.read the fine print next time and you will avoid minor disasters!
jnxt231 0
duh! don't do something you don't know the consequences to.
SpringLoaded12 0
Oh, and here's a precaution that shouldn't be too hard for the computer illiterate. In fact, I think the Mac users might even be able to handle it. BACK UP YOUR FILES ONLINE. Just search for "free file storage" or free file hosting". One site I like to use is Drop.io, but note that the files you upload there will delete themselves after a specified period of time (Ex. 1 year after upload, 1 week after last time files were viewed, etc) There's plenty of other websites as well, although most will share your files with other users.