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Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping? (lemmy.one)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I just discovered something I did so idiotic I need a stronger adjective that what is in my name.

For one of my installs, I accidentally overwrote my 1TB HDD. A few minutes ago I wanted to put back some files... and all I saw was a distro.

It confused me because I was not sure if I was on my solid state drive or the HDD.

So, those files are gone. A lot is gone. Nothing too precious, I think... It might be a tremendous fuck up.

See kids, this is why you back up. Off the computer. Oh well.

EDIT: Recovering files using Photorec. Everyone who recommended this to me is a hero. Also a hero is the person who recommended FTK, but I was too eager to use something now than to sign up to download. I still should though...

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[–] 32 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I remember shortly after college I was living with a couple of people and one day we all heard “NOOOOOOOOOO!” and went running to see what tragedy happened. He had started formatting the one porn drive he had been collecting on over the last few years.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    That is is a special kind grieving.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I’ll never forget that scream, I thought a sound like that was reserved for when the cat ran behind the couch and stepped on the surge protector button, corrupting the hard drive as you were almost finished writing your graduate thesis, which wasn’t backed up yet.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Honestly a thesis is way higher stakes and value. Yeah, imagine thinking there was an emergency only to find out your roommate will need to spend the rest of the semester using their imagination.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Yeah, we definitely had fun at his expense for a while after that.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I would be mortified. He seems shameless though, hah.

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