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

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DQ2011 0

Monday 30 August 2010 23:08

it's savable!!!!! don't do anything else to it and google how to recover data!!!

Cinn_fml 22

Monday 30 August 2010 23:17

If your husband doesn't know what 'formatting' means, why was he the one attempting to fix it? Also, as you had important files on there, it might have been worth calling someone who was paid and qualified to do it. And this is what backing up is for.

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ghoti_fml 0

Tuesday 31 August 2010 1:38

Also, agree with comments that you need to back up everything important.

SpinozaQ 2

Tuesday 31 August 2010 1:54

As many have stated here. Simply formatting the drive does not destroy the data. I have been doing hard drive data recovery for years and have never failed to recover data from a drive that was still spinning. ( Sometimes even from ones that aren't! ) If you need data recovery send me a private message or just find me on AIM.

raesolis86 0

Tuesday 31 August 2010 2:06

FYL that's horrible. however u shouldn't have let your husband try to fix it if he didn't know what he was doing. lesson learned I suppose.

RotcivTruk 5

Tuesday 31 August 2010 2:25

there are 2 types of computer users: those that have lost data and those who will lose data. backup!

taylor_bby100 0

Tuesday 31 August 2010 2:28

79 Win lol

leahouwinga 5

Tuesday 31 August 2010 2:35

a lot of computer repair companies can still get the files off. my husband has a program that let's him do that for his customers. you should look into it.

tj79 3

Tuesday 31 August 2010 2:36

you should send it to a data recovery shop. it's going to cost you out the ass but you will get your data back as long as you don't write anything to the disk, and DON'T try any of the commercially available undelete soft ware they are shite.

leahouwinga 5

Tuesday 31 August 2010 2:37

there's a lot of computer repair companies that can fix it. don't put any more files on it and take it to a data recovery specialist. that same thing happened to me a few months ago