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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hackwack123 0
Ive done that
FrickAndFrack 0
Dude, it's not that hard to fix. Just undo the system restore.
somekid87 0
should of got a mac
martron3000 5
You should have an external hard drive and always back up anything you want to keep to that drive before attempting anything like a system recovery. Regular backups are a good idea anyway, just in case the main drive in the computer should fail. You can buy a 1 terabyte external drive for only about $100, which is worth it to protect your important files.
_system_ 0
Bullshit. System restore does not delete any data at all. That's drive formatting...
mj23la 0
Your a flat out dumbass listen and learn..... System restore is when you restore your computer to a date that you set it too before hand. System RECOVERY is when you restore your computer back to the FACTORY SETTINGS! Meaning everything gets deleted and is restored to its orginal state like brand new in a box. Restoring it is when you restore it back to the date you set it too. Got it genius?
Wooloff 0
Seems like at least half of you don't know the difference between "system recovery" and "system restore". Isn't it hilarious how quickly you are to insult the OP, when it's soooooo obvious you haven't a clue either?
mj23la 0
Exactly what I was thinking at least someone has a sense of mind. Read my comment for the guy who said...Bullshit. System restore does not delete any data at all.....WOW its so hilarious how dumb people can be when trying to insult someone.
ajlardner 0
anyone saying system restore doesn't delete, it doesn't. she did a system recovery, which, to my knowledge is like REINSTALLING WINDOWS and wiping your hard drive. my computer died and 46
Shadow_Phantom 26
YDI for using Windows.
Charlie96 0
I did the same thing before too but the files are still in your computer. Go into your file search and type in the name of something that you had saved on your computer and you should be able to find everything again. I thought I lost all my stuff too but I managed to find it all.