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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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Dr_Balls 0
When are you guys gonna figure out that YDI is more about karma than direct causality?
Captain_Jello 0
I bet you still don't back up your data either...
snyp_fml 0
YDI for using windows and not a MAC
CrunkCupcake97 2
my 12 year old niece knows that.
Captain_Jello 0
an eraser disk?? That proves you have NO idea what you are talking about.
daytona81 0
system recovery is not starting fresh, system recovers restores any changes youve made to your computer to a day of your choosing. YOU reformatted your computer. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
BunnyDrastic 0
Reading this made me sad .. I kan only imgaine what ur going through dude **** that!
VeganVampyre 27
Reading this made ME sad... I can only imagine what your English teachers went through.
thtVieTkiddo 0
Usually your computer tells you if you're doing something drastic. In this case your computer didn't work and you must have used a CD. either way, you're told what you're doing. read instructions? YDI.
Puolukka 4
Not necessarily...my laptop has a hidden partition on the hard drive that is used to reformat the computer. I did make recovery discs from it, but I don't have to use them if the recovery partition is still functioning.... But you're right...once you started the process it CLEARLY states that you're about to wipe everything from your computer.
blastvortex 4
Good grief. Why'd you do something when you didn't even know what you were doing? System Restore even comments about backing stuff up because (and it tells you this) it does precisely what you just complained about. Can't you read? It's like when a cartoon character walks nonchalantly up to a big red button marked "CAUTION - SELF DESTRUCT" and presses it anyway. What'd you expect?
mikew85 0
System Restore is a Windows feature that reverses select system changes such as driver upgrades and program installations. System Recovery I believe means reverting to the state your computer was when it was brand new. in part, it's your fault for messing with it when you know you're technologically challenged, so next time, ask someone who isn't. on the other hand, those two features are confusingly named.