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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

your_face 15

Sunday 4 October 2009 17:39

That sucks! This is why you let someone ELSE fix the computer... I'm not very technologically literate, so any time something goes wrong with my computer I go to my brother rather than screw it up worse.

MadeOfAwesome 1

Sunday 4 October 2009 17:41

I'm technology challenged too, and even I knew that. The freakin computer TELLS you what a recovery does! Way to read what it says.

BeckyxRad 0

Sunday 4 October 2009 17:41

Uhm actually, Recovery Checks don't erase anything except the viruses that have been causing your computer issues...

FritoLovesYou 0

Sunday 4 October 2009 17:49

You ******* dumbass.

lifeislife_fml 0

Sunday 4 October 2009 17:50

"Me decided to do a system recovery on it hoping that I could make it better." :( Me sad.

epicwinmaster 0

Sunday 4 October 2009 18:02

lol ur a noob -50 internetz

jpr11011 0

Sunday 4 October 2009 18:03

How can anyone say you deserved this? It wasn't like you knew what it did! I agree with the other commenters, maybe your files can be recoverd. It's worth a try!

rubberducky94 0

Sunday 4 October 2009 18:13

Apparently you're also the grammatically challenged one.

ercbar2 0

Sunday 4 October 2009 18:17

Um a system recovery doesn't mean that.....work at a tech bench ....and yea thats not right a recovery pull info that a computer has saved in a separate location to restore the computer to a like new start with all that stuff...unless a person did back up their stuff and well you get what you did....i would have tried a system restore.....it doesn't get rid of personal files.....get good

wordgirl 0

Sunday 4 October 2009 20:00

Wow. I'm glad you work at a tech bench and your job is not writing manuals or explaining to customers how to do things to their computer, man. That's a really bad explanation you just gave here.