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
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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, 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
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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..
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tikimuppet 11
I call fake. Whenever I've done a system recovery on my computer a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig message comes up saying "ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DO THIS? IT WILL DELETE ALL OF YOUR FILES!" If you didn't see that, then you deserve to have lost everything
myballs 0
Holy crap guy. Ask someone who knows a little bit about computers for dicking around with one. You should also back up all your shit.
funnykidd 0
i did that too :/
celeritas_5k 0
Just FYI- There's a very prominent message during the restore process that clearly tells you the hard drive will be wiped. It always sucks when you learn the hard way to actually read warnings before clicking "OK"....
shes_gottahaveit 0
I clicked YDI, but really, it's because of people like you that I have a job so: Keep on doing exactly what you're doing. :D
Freed0mfr1es 0
you fail.. forever
capthavoc123 0
System recovery on a computer does not delete files. It restores system settings. Fake FMLs are becoming increasingly common...
Nandian90 0
Here is the solution to everything.... Keep Everything on an external Harddrive... That way you cna mess with the computer all you want w/o having to worry about losing your files... It's safe and reliable. And if you can install Ubuntu then you won't have to worry about your computer messing up in the first place... YDI for doing a system recovery instead of trying to call an expert to come and fix it for you...
ohJeeznotme 7
Back up your files occasionally. An external mini HD is so cheap and its better than losing all your stuff. Do you not save assignments when you write them and get mad when the power goes out, etc and you lose your work? Anyhow, you can create restore points...but you should ask for help so someone else is there to not overlook your warning messages.
RatIsKing 0
"me decided to do a system recovery" and me decided to say YDI