Miscellaneous: Today, my computer stopped working. Me, the technology challenged...

By rebeccaremily - 04/10/2009 07:03 - 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

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You deserved it 54 727

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By Anonymous - 21/09/2009 20:22 - 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

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You deserved it 7 087

By not living happily ever after - 02/12/2014 17:02 - United States - Virginia Beach

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

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You deserved it 31 469

By mlowy - 09/05/2014 05:35 - Azerbaijan - Baku

Today, my computer crashed and lost all of its data while I was making a back up. FML

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You deserved it 4 169

By ThisGirl - 21/08/2012 02:30 - United States - Kennesaw

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

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You deserved it 16 469

By computergeek - 26/01/2010 21:25 - United States

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

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You deserved it 2 445

Time to rebuild

By Anonymous - 06/08/2022 12:00

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

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You deserved it 342

By artiemilano - 15/10/2009 19:42 - United States

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

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You deserved it 3 550

Genius move

By Soopa-Genius - 22/09/2011 12:06 - Canada

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

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You deserved it 2 689

By photogirl - 30/08/2010 18:42 - United States

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

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You deserved it 7 439

Restore device

By Anonymous - 08/04/2023 12:00 - Canada - Québec

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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You deserved it 181

flinkpamingo 0

Sunday 4 October 2009 16:06

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

Sunday 4 October 2009 16:03

leave it alone man..

Comments

reachreach 1

Monday 9 July 2012 5:25

System recovery keeps your files, but makes all programs from that point ok become uninstalled

stump11knights 10

Tuesday 17 July 2012 21:06

Usually it suggests to back up your files first...

elizacandle 29

Monday 22 April 2013 10:30

It tells yoy before you do it!

unfantastic 5

Wednesday 7 August 2013 20:29

did it really?? crap... I did that to my computer last night....

CryosFear 14

Sunday 6 July 2014 19:09

Hahahahahaha dumbass

toxic_hippos 11

Monday 27 October 2014 0:58

Dude...you're stupid.

thecman25 14

Friday 19 December 2014 4:44

the technology challenged one? yea sure

Xshley 11

Saturday 4 April 2015 6:53

There are search engines for a reason.

FweakofCydonia 40

Sunday 27 December 2015 1:06

OP, it is possible to recover the information back. My dad got a virus on his computer and was forced to do a system reboot. The repairman was able to salvage all photos from his computer, including ones that were deleted in the past (Even when you delete a program completely into the recycling bin, traces of the program still remain).