Bought new 2 TB WD Blue, put all the random shit I had accumulated from different imageboards since 2018, a month in my headphone got tangled in my chair and as I turned the case fell on its side. Kernel crash, and when I rebooted the drive had died. Can't get the drive to read anything. It still works, so maybe I can get the data saved by a professional but I don't want to risk touching the drive now. It's just sitting in my shelf.

>>108977660
i lost my main system drive, but i had old versions of my most important source code backed up so i was able to mostly recover. i don't even remember what i lost so it wasn't that important

>>108977681
external HDD?

Dropped a lot of money on a 22tb external HDD. 2 months after getting it I left it writing while I went out for 30 minutes. By the time I got back it had somehow fallen over and was clicking like mad. Drive was fucked. Honestly the data loss didn't really bother me more than the amount of money I wasted on the drive itself, the warranty didn't cover any damage from drops/falls so I was shit out of luck.

>>108977694
Nope, internal. Sucks because I kept putting off making a backup, but that's just my own retardation. I could hear the drive spinning but it just can't read anything, so all the data is probably still in there. Maybe it's just a simple board replacement? Dunno. I'm saving up money on the side to get it to a data recovery service, so wish me luck.

I used to have a bunch of equipment on two LACK racks. Couple R750s, very expensive netgear router that fell out of a truck, etc. I had it raised off the floor, had a fire suppression ball, cutoff switch, the works.
A pipe in the ceiling directly above the rack burst and the water stream sprayed directly onto the rack. Fried fucking everything. The one situation I didn't plan for was water coming from above.
Luckily I had an offline backup at my mom's house so I went and picked that up after downsizing dramatically. Can't ever be bothered to do a full rack again and now I run off of a few micro PCs.

Took some photos of my little cat, 2 days later she got mauled by a neighbors dog and died
Tried grabbing the photos I took but the SD card stopped working the same day, fuck sandisk

>>108977660
I was working on an Adobe Illustrator logo for a client for a week. It was going great and as I exported it for review, I placed my hands behind my head and stretched. Then Windows 11 updated, failed, and corrupted my drive.

>>108977721
There is a shock sensor that parks the heads when the drive takes a knock, and I think it might set a flag in the firmware, so try updating the firmware in a pre-boot environment first.

>>108977660
I had 50 gb of 16 year old pizza recipes. Lost them all from data corruption.

>>108977660
was 14 years old, used to save my passwords in a txt file, one day the pc broke and I lost access to a youtube channel where my friends and I did really really stupid shit, some of it illegal, it's been 18 years and old acquaintances still reference those videos, I tried to report the channel and contact youtube but nothing worked, our retardation will live on forever

>>108977735
Clean the contacts and shim the card so it makes better contact with the connector.

>>108977735
was it a nigbull?

>>108977660
Lost my laptop drive which contained four years of mails and chat logs I hadn't backed up (including all conversations with my ex gf), some personal notes and my mod collection for Oblivion. Haven't played it since.

>>108977660
First real HDD I bought. 80GB.
Head crashed suddenly after just a couple months. Nothing to be done about it.

>>108977898
Maxtor?

>>108977767
Only 50 GB after 16 years of collecting pizza recipes? Those are rookie numbers.

The worst was thanks to Akasa hard drive enclosures being badly engineered trash.

My brother and i both had Akasa hard drive enclosures that were bought a couple years apart. They looked a little different but similar, and they both used this really unique and unusual power connector I've never seen on anything else. It was like a barrel jack with four circular pins inside or something.

So, it was a really special snowflake connector and the same exact brand, so i assumed the power brick from my brother's one would work on mine. Nope, the pin out was different and it blew up my external hd, there was a pop and a smell and a skidmark in the enclosure housing where the hd was. Drive totally dead.

It feels as if Akasa designed it for that to happen, the power connector was seriously very special looking, I've never seen anything like it since on anything else. Who wouldn't assume it would work?

I'm just glad it was my hard drive that blew up and not my brother's. I don't know what he would have done to me

>>108977660
My own memory from all the drugs and alcohol.

>>108977660
Lost 3 years of company finance data. My own company (self employed). The stupid part is this happened 2 times, the second one lost 2 years of service reports for clients. Not as essential but good to have to track stuff.
Mandatory monthly backups are not a waste of time and is one of the biggest service you can do to your future self.

>>108977660
Whenever I'm deleting files on a Linux machine I'm in the habit of doing shift-delete to skip the step of emptying the trash. So it's almost muscle memory to do shift-delete, immediately followed by enter.
One time my finger accidentally hit the end key along with it and I wound up deleting everything on the desktop.

>>108977660
back in highschool i used to store all my personal projects on a sandisk flash drive
when i was conscripted into my country's military i was assigned as a armor vehicles technician, i was given an opportunity to escape that by being transferred to the R&D section. i had to show off my old work, and in that moment that flash drive died.
i ended up repairing tanks for almost 5 years
partly because of that

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>>108977660
Was tired and too rough with a SATA cable and snapped the pins clean off a 22TB drive. That was a bad day.

>>108977906
WD I think.

>>108977660
Authorities confiscating my laptop with 200 GB of pizza recipes.

>>108977929
doesn't that mean you are dead if you get an IRS audit?

>tiny corruption on disk
>it hit the exact folder where I stored my writings over the years
I cried.

This thread scares me and I'm too poor for a backup
I need to copy what's on my 18tb external hdd it's been 5 years since I purchased it and I've been using it for torrenting nonstop

>>108977947
divine intervention

>>108977708
Afaik, that must have been a datacenter drive, they're loud and vibrate a lot, they require solid mounting.
It probably did the same thing your phone does when it vibrates on the table.

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>>108977660
I once started to rm -rf my music folder because of a stupid space character in the path. When I realized the slew of deletions that were taking place I stopped it, but by then I'd lost around 30GB of data.

Recently I had pic related happen to my 12TB backup drive. Still not sure what the fuck was the reason, but when I plugged the drive to my SATA to USB adapter the fucking 12V power supply exploded and the circuit breakers went down. Not sure if the data is still there but this tiny chip on the motherboard is fried. At least this was just a backup and the data is safe.

>>108977660
>Whats the worst data loss you've ever suffered?
When my smartphone was stolen and I couldnt log into my Gmail despite knowing the password, because they insisted on sending 2FA authentication to that phone.

>>108977799
>our retardation will live on forever
not actually. eventually those videos will be culled and most people will ree about lost history or whatever but the silver lining is for situations like yours

>>108977708
It was probably your piece of shit cat knocking things over as usual

I've never suffered data loss.
I once thought I lost all my matlab (kek) code from a computational mechanics class, but fortunately I had made a backup after having reinstalled winslop some years ago.

When I was younger, I decided I wanted to clean out my C: drive (win10). I went around the usual places (appdata/program data/programfiles) deleting directories that weren't needed anymore. It went fine, up until I discovered a folder named 'ContentDelivery' (or one of those folders related to Windows update) and decided to nuke it. I figured it was just some sort of old update that had been cached for roll-back purposes. What I didn't realize was that Windows had somehow shifted to booting from that folder (Instead of C:/Windows), and I completely fucked my install, along with most of my data. I still have no clue what precisely happened there.. but I'm still feeling the effects of that old stuff being lost to this day.

>>108977660
how many gigs was there in the jizz again? that

>>108977660
Had a candid on my phone. It got discovered and deleted before I could properly masturbate to it.

>>108977660
gf got ultra mad at being broken up with and tossed my 16tb external hdd out the window, knowing I had loads of important shit there
sued her for damages and downloaded a copy off the cloud a few days later when I replaced the drive

>>108978467
What was the award for damages?

>>108977660
I have an old phone that I forgot the pin code to that has photos of a trip I took with my grandparents 8 years ago. I'll hold onto it and hope I can get into it one day, but it sucks. Some of the photos would have been perfect for my grandma's funeral. I took a really nice one of her and my grandfather.
I learned my lesson and now whenever I retire a device I'll remove the password on it immediately before putting it into storage. Or write it down at least.

>>108978368
how would you lose data from that? it's just a corrupted install with all of the data still there. you could have booted into another operating system and copied your stuff

>>108977660
Had one SSD die spontaneously on me (became completely inaccessible, didn't even appear as connected to the PC) and I lost the source code to a project I wrote, some firmware for a MCU. I was "lucky" that the project was basically finished and the last firmware version was already burned. I still use that MCU to this day, fortunately I never discovered any bug with it so I never needed the code again.

>>108977660
When i tried to kill myself, i wrote a script to wipe my data on a scheduled task.
I failed, the suspension broke while i was unconscious and when i became clear again, the data was gone.

>>108977660
two videos from my favourites on jewtube were deleted
I have been a chronic hoarder since that day

raid array of 3 18tb drives burned to a crisp at random right before prices went up
Still seething to this day I don't fucking know what happened but all 3 died on me...never again will I buy seagate

i just wiped my decade old linux (arch btw) install. not really data loss like your talking about but whatever.

I installed jdownloader in the root directory of an HDD and when I uninstalled that program it started deleting everything in root. I saw what was going on in real time so I could stop it reasonably fast but I wasn't able to recover much.

>>108978714
>seagate
lmao, we all made similar experiences with that horrid brand

>>108977660
>Whats the worst data loss you've ever suffered?
on christmas day 2024, I slipped backwards and hit the back of my head on the tile-on-concrete floor of my kitchen. I was found half an hour later by my uncle unconscious, and attempts to wake me only made me move erratically and sound things incoherently.

on the way to the hospital, they said I kept asking "what time is it? what day is it?" over and over, occasionally asking "where am I?"

I recalled none of this, all I recall was asking the first two questions a only a couple of times in the hospital bed, and apparently I got an MRI and CT scan but I remembered none of it.

a few months ago I found out I had a cat that died that I had absolutely no memory of, but recalled other things from that timeframe. I wouldn't believe it if it weren't for the photos of me raising the cat and him sleeping on my chest and beside my face.

I'd say that was pretty bad data loss. I don't even know if there are other things I forgot.

>>108977660
Lost my uncles gay porn collection including some rare orphanage stuff ft yours truly. We were jerking off together and he had one hand up my ass and another on my shoulder and I came so hard it blew through the side panel/chassis and onto the cmos battery, frying everything and electrifying my ballsack.

>>108978751
The sale was too good but the shit happened right before things went to shit so I'm salty

I spent years collecting DJ CD mix releases from a local DJ. Paid top dollar for missing volumes on eBay, ripped them all to 320 MP3s, and named each track and album title manually.
somehow lost all of these during a Windows reinstall. No idea how it happened, didnt loose anything else. weird.
i still have the CDs, need to rip em

>>108978762

Goddamn, anon.

>>108977721
>>108977681
Rossmann has a data recover service (or he did at least) and it's not extortion-levels of cost like DriveSavers.

I put 1k usd into Dogecoin back in 2014. When the big boom happened years ago, it was worth around 350k. When I go unlock my wallet, my password didn't work.

I never did figure out what the password to that wallet, and I tried very hard to find it, writing scripts to generate billions of passwords based on the common passwords I use. Even went to a hypnotist once.

Oh well. I couldn't have retired on that money anyway. And I bet we're heading to a future where money doesn't matter, whether due to AI or civilizational collapse.

around 2015 i didn't know that android system wipe also wipes external sd card, lost all my old memes

>>108977660
The hard drive on the first PC I bought died in 1999 or 2000, lost everything on it including my fledgling MP3 collection. I've been diligent about backups ever since.

>>108977920
>the power connector was seriously very special looking
Some DIN-style power plug maybe? I have an external HDD dock that can take 5 HDDs and it also has that sort of power connector. They're certainly not common, that's for sure.

>>108977958
I snapped the little L-shaped key off a 16TB drive, fortunately not the connector itself so the HDD still works fine but if I ever take it out or disconnect the power cable I need to be extremely careful since it goes on both ways now with that little bit of plastic snapped off.

SATA connectors (both data and power) really seem like such a fragile, shitty design. No idea why the fuck they're made like this, the power connector is especially bad since a lot of PSU cables are thick and stiff so it's very easy to apply force to a connector when trying to daisy-chain to an adjacent HDD or something. Really awful design.

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>>108977767
>I had 50 gb of 16 year old pizza

>>108977660
In 2010 lost my entire 4chan folder ive been collecting since 2006 an era lost to time like tears in the rain

>>108977660
The worst that happened is one external hard drive turn into raw. I was able to recover what was in there though...

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>had no idea what source control was
>babbys first cs year project
>1 week before hand in
>main copy on usb, other versions weeks old
>GT 220 reaching 90C
>point desk fan at side to keep it cool
>picrel even the same fucking case
>pc on floor
>wheel chair closer to desk
>snap usb losing weeks of work
>all nighter and weekend in college to recover

>be me
>message techdomme on xitter
>she connects to my pc with anydesk
>she veracrypts my D: drive while edging me
>lets me cum after
>she never decrypts it
best orgasm of my life

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I started drinking to forget but then I forgot why I started drinking so now I drink to try to remember what I forgot

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>>108979134
Keked

>>108977660
In 2016 I wanted to encrypt my marshmallow Android phone to be more secure. It had custom roms installed and it was rooted as well. I must-have ignored some warning because it just kept bootlooping and I was forced to wipe it all to 0. I lost 5 years of photos, SMS etc that was carried over across multiple devices. I was a teenager at the time and it hurt

>>108978312
>When my smartphone was stolen and I couldnt log into my Gmail despite knowing the password, because they insisted on sending 2FA authentication to that phone.
did you have alternative 2FA configured?
if not then it is kind of fukken working exactly as intended and idk why you think gmail is at fault

>>108977660
My electric went off and I lost my Minecraft world due to corruption. I had a really cool dock with a house and a cool quarry that I had a rail track to and a cool neither portal room and just so much cool things. I lost it all. Gone forever

Lots of horror stories ITT. Best way to avoid data loss other than making sure you don't drop the drive on the floor? That one seems kinda self explanatory.

My mother died last week.

>>108977660
i have an old seagate 1TB that im pretty sure has bitcoin in a wallet on it that i mined in 2010. I bought a new controller board for it with the same manufacturer year and month. But I still have to swap the bios chip or whatever on it. I suck at soldering and know I'ma fuck it up so I've yet to attempt it.

>>108980770
sorry to hear anon

>>108980263
I forgot to remember to forget. I also shot a man in Reno just for teh lulz.

>>108980770
Sorry, anon. She's at a better place now.

>>108977681
>still works
Was running an index recovery tool no-go or not considered?

>>108977660
I lost a bunch of stop motion animations I made when I was a teenager because I backed them up on a cd for a reformat, the cd was apparently bad and they were all lost. This was back in like 2004.
I backup everything important at least twice now.

I disabled and removed OneDrive from my computer. Never wanted it but Windows forced it anyway. Years later I found a OneDrive folder and deleted it.

Lost almost everything. Turned out Windows was automatically saving all my shit in there without asking, and even hiding the fact. When I thought I was saving in Documents, it was actually OneDrive/Documents, or OneDrive/Pictures, and so on. Actual malware behavior. Windows is just as bad as fuckin Mac these days, doing whatever it wants with YOUR computer without your permission or knowledge.

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>>108977660
i used to have all my anime and images on a portable 3.5 inch drive, one time at my dads years i knocked it over and it died i lost like 3tb of anime and all of the reaction images i collected over like 10 years, my reaction folder will never be as good as it was back then

>>108977660
Because of rage from online chess, I've smashed many of my devices irreparably, including at least 3 iPhones. The photos are gone forever.

>>108978009
;_;
Let this be a reminder to have at least one (probably more, if it's really important) backup of your important files on another disk or the cloud

>late at night, tired like a dog, eyes barely open
>500MB USB memory stick doesn't works
>proceed at formatting it
>something feels wrong
>I formatted the 500GB HDD with all the personal data
>recover didn't recover much, had some backup but most is gone forever
>I felt it

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>>108978714
>>108978751
It's always Seagate. The only external drive that's ever died on me during badblocks was a 2 TB Seagate. Not only that but I have to force the kernel to use the old USB driver for all my Seagate externals because they're junk.

Never ever ever ever ever buy Seagate. My server is all WD (3 SSDs, 3 spinners) and most of my externals are also WD. Only had one issue over the past 13-14 years with one of them and it's the oldest one and still works despite making a weird sonar pinging sound.

I browse a lot of homelab forums and almost every time there's a drive problem it's a Seagate. NEVER BUY SEAGATE.

>>108977660
> sudo dd bs=1M if=newdistro.iso of=/dev/sdb
Program icons start to disappear. Read errors everywhere. All data from when I was in college gone. Years later I opened a drawer and remembered I swapped my laptop’s hdd with an ssd, hdd had most if not all the files.

Long story short probably 20 years ago I swapped the 500gb hdd in my laptop with a 750gb one, and for some absolutely fucktarded reason I'll never understand I immediately wiped the 500gb one after installing windows on the 750gb one before I transferred over my data. Literally no idea what the fuck I was thinking. The biggest loss however was several dozen sexy pictures from my previous teenage girlfriends, and there were some pretty damn good ones too. Still hate myself to this day over it.

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>>108977660
>buy an 8tb seagate hdd
>package came with no padding, just the loose drive in it
>knew I should've returned it because hdd are pussies and can't stand being even tilted the wrong way
>say meh
>copy all my data, documents and stuff along with 4tb of furry porn
>drive starts to fail
>shit.iso
>need to send the drive to exchange for a new one to seagate
>disk is unencrypted
>could only erase like 10% of it before it dies
>dd if=me of=/dev/null myself
>some seagate engineer had to look through thousand furry porn images to diagnose the drive or some shit
>mfw

>>108978997
>Even went to a hypnotist once.
kek

around 8000ish screenshots saved from a game ive played for a very long time, i lost my backup so i went to make a new one before switching to a new pc
i copied all of them to an external nvme ssd, and wiped my existing system to install ubuntu
plugged in the nvme and nothing had actually saved to it
i still dont know what happened, i watched the little windows file explorer box stay open for a solid few minutes while it moved them all over, i looked through the files on the nvme and they were all there, i powered off the pc and unplugged the nvme before doing the ubuntu install
and then upon plugging that nvme back in its like none of that happened, the only stuff on there was older
i tried a bunch of data recovery stuff and got nowhere, i lost about a decade of screenshots, all while trying to make a new backup after the original backup died
and then the poor timing of also having wiped my main ssd to install ubuntu

Had like 400gb of several Comikket torrents that i was autistically cataloguing on a ext hdd, then during a trip got my bag stolen along with it

>>108981854
I thought they got their stuff together since then

>>108977660
I have an SSD that i transfered all my stuff onto that had all my 4chan and old internet files from probably before 2000 but I had most of my old 2006 drawfag posts and a bunch of other shit that I had saved from the oldfag times. The SSD for whatever reason exploded and I have no idea how to get it back. SSD was relatively new too I looked on the board and something blew off on it.

>>108981361
>my dads years
His WHAT?

>>108981845
This is why I never do anything data sensitive while feeling aleepy

>>108981774
The most difficult skill to master is mastery over self, Grasshoppa.

>>108977660
I told my meme folder from around the years 2009 to 2012

While not my data loss, the PH purge was the biggest loss ever, videos I had bookmarked gone
That's when I started saving and hoarding my most favorite vids

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>lost tiny sd card with pics on the way back from a great SEA journey when I was young
>password to a $3k crypto wallet
All other data loss is from me delberately throwing it away and later regretting it.

>>108978697
I had that happen to a really good song on soundcloud. Never been able to find it again, it was a bootleg remix with a forgettable name. That day I ripped all of my soundcloud playlists and every year I see a few more songs missing that I have downloaded.
Still really mad about losing it, it had the best build up and drop. I can still hear it in my head because I used to listen to it on loop. I still look for it sometimes.

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This story still lives rent free in my head. It's technically not data being lost but imagine forgetting your master password. I don't know what solutions would work for situations like this

>>108983365
>I don't know what solutions would work for situations like this
Not a solution, but not being retarded and making an easy to remember master password goes a long way

>>108977660
My dad dropped beer on my old PC, put some paper towels on it and actually turned it on to see if it worked, killed my drive with my old pre-2010 4chan folder. I'm still mad about it

>>108983400
I just use the name of KeePassXD database as my password

>>108977660
I had a Samsung 500GB HDD in my PC back in 2009 with heaps of photos and edited videos I hadn't backed up. I remember one day the computer sort of just froze and then there was the infamous click of death sound from the HDD. I still have the raw footage of those videos on MiniDV tape but I would have spent dozens of hours editing and putting them together in Premiere Pro with all the little tweaks, etc. And I think I lost a bunch of photos from a Nikon DSLR that I never backed-up, but it's hard to remember. I thankfully did actually back-up some documents and things like that (from 2003-09) to a regular TDK CD-R before that happened though. Losing shit you can just download again (games, movies, etc) is nothing, it's all the personal files (documents, photos, videos, etc) you create that's the problem.

>>108977947
it amazes me when normies trust flash drives with everything. I've had easily two dozen flash drives randomly die on me in my career. some that were reputable brands and some that were brand new and just unboxed.

>>108983509
>randomly die
If you leave them in storage for too long (a month at room temperature) there's a good chance that bits will flip due to charges leaking out. If too many of those happen, the controller will just kill the drive because fuck you. It's impossible to tell the controller to stop being a retard, so you have to buy a new one.

>>108978682
Are you me in the future?

>>108977660
1/4 bitcoin

A virus I downloaded around 2007 deleted my HDDs, I could recover everything except a hobby project folder.

Had plenty of near losses since then including dead hard drives and dead ssds, but I managed to repair them long enough to restore all lost data. The worst I had since was things like losing a weeks worth of chat logs and such, since my automatic backups are weekly.

>>108983704
No, you will succeed. I believe in you

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when i intentionally deleted my extremely curated porn torrent collection from 2010-2016. Literally can't find almost any of them now (private tracker for most of them and i was AFK for so long that they deleted my account)

fell for the no nut november meme...

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>>108977660
None. I back muh stuff up. I can nuke a drive without worry. It takes a few hours, but you just install the OS again from a multiboot drive and use rufus or whatever to load the ISO. then you upload your stuff and reinstall programs. It's a very gud system.

>>108980621
Well having backups of course.
My advice would be to stash away any drives you used to make backups once you're done using them to avoid anyone bumping into your desk and knocking your freshly made backup onto the floor.
People usually use hard drives for backup but personally I hate how fragile they are. Having an extra set of your most precious data on optical media or a SSD (that you plug-in from time to time) is an extra safeguard since they are more robust against falls.

>>108982848
Stats are more or less on par with other manufacturers but nobody bothers looking up real data

>>108982949
oh
>years ago
kek

I had a 2TB HDD filled with what.cd torrents.
Around 2 years of downloading and seeding music. I had no backups because I was 17 at the time.
One day my mother left my window open while I was in highschool and my PC was next to it. That day it rained pretty fucking hard. My PC got lucky but that HDD got soaked and I lost countless of hours of music.

>>108984312
Damn, rip. Hopefully you recovered it on RED/OPS.

never have
none of my drives are being used 24/7 and i have my computer shut off every night (not hibernation/sleep)

>>108984325
I stopped going to what.cd after that. I didn't even know that they had created OPS afterwards.
I don't even remember the mail that I used for it. So I'm pretty much fucked unless I find someone that has an invite and I start from scratch.

my old hdd died in 2012, it had 120 bitcoins

>>108977660
my brother's scumbag buddy stole my 10GB hard drive with entire Amiga TOSEC on it. it was a major blow to me in 2002 (I was broke).

>>108984503
probably easily recoverable

>>108977660
Ex destroyed my (never backed up) 7 year old phone with a coffee mug

>>108978762
are you ok jfc

>sexting an insanely horny chinese milf
>shes interested in me romantically as well
>im not really in her
>tell her
>she asks me to block her (i.e. she can't bring herself to block me)
>screenshot her wechat info so i sext her next time im horny
>block and remove her
>decide to delete the screenshot
>realize that I kind of loved her (??) (in fact, love/lust are basically the same within many many people)
>take phone to data recovery place, they tell me it's impossible to recover anything
>burn myself with a lighter to deal with the emotional grief (felt like there was a hole in my heart)

all for a 5/10 38 year old chinese chick.
goddamn though she would get insanely possessive and jealous and it made my dick hard enough to drill for oil. yes i am retarded and autistic.

>>108985013
beta

>>108983509
that's the only flash drive i had that died on me ever
i even have one from 2008 that i used continuously and still works

>>108978004
My country IRS is still operating on paper by default so my accountant has all the paper copies. By law the accountant has to keep the papers for 5 years then I get a dump of folders for me to keep another 5 years, 10 to be safe in case the law changes. I just lost the digital .pdf exports and the invoice software database. So if something to happen with the papers physically getting destroyed I can still claim vis-major but even badly water damaged papers have to be shown on an audit.
Since then I set my exports to print in 3 copies, one to send to client, one for the accountant and one for me to sit on in case of whatever happens. Also monthly backups.

>>108985013
anon barely escaped being butchered lol. you have more luck than brains.

i can guarantee you that the bitch was real.
there are absurd amounts of chinese women on the internet who will simp for mid white guys. check out tandem or hellotalk.

>>108977681
Try HDDSuperClone, if with that you can't save the data, then you need to bring it in a white room recovery facility

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>>108977660
never
I have pics from 2006 because I always have at least two HDDs (plus cloud backups) and I replace them every few years
losing your data is your choice

>>108977660
Google deleting my YouTube account because I exploited the HTML5 injection when they implemented it.
Told me a good lesson about baskets and eggs.

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>>108977660
2005 I completely lost the content of my hard drive, including the digital camera summer photos I took of girls who were my age at the time... maybe it's a good thing they're gone, but sometimes I still long for them

>>108986369
Sorry to hear about you losing all those images of freshly 18 year old girls anon :/

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>>108977758

>>108980263
Just make sure you don't get to the drink to drink phase, and you'll be fine.

>>108977660
I've never suffered any major data loss, fingers crossed. I still have all the data from back to my 2006 laptop.
That said, I did once burn a limewire ideepthroat/heather-harmon/brooke video to a dvd, and then lost it (you're welcome, if anyone found it) and I was unable to find that specific video for years until more complete compilations were uploaded.

If that counts.

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>>108978682

>>108978682
lel, lardo.

>>108977660
Work computer power supply shit the bed and died and took out hard drive and everything that wasn't backed up 3 sticks of memory and a motherboard.
Backup was 6 months old.
Was totally thinking of swapping it for a good ol Antec one but the time never came.
Picked a whole field of whoopsie daisy's.
Now I do nightly backups and weekly images.

>>108977920
This?

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>>108987076
Forgot pic

>>108978997
Type your password in with caps lock on
or try it shifting over one key on your keyboard.
ie instead of f use g a use s and so on

>>108977660
some stupid ssd died and I learned that ssds are trash that die with 0 warning

>>108987152
If you ever hit the lottery, buy SLC SSDs with SLC DRAM cache.

There were three times where a drive failed me - and one where I failed the drive.

First one was when the WD Green M.2 SATA SSD just went OYK overnight. Luckily there was nothing but the OS there so phewed and went on.

The second was my own fault. I accidentally snapped the plastic pin cover on my external drive back during the COVID times. Luck was on my side again because if I put the plastic bit onto the pins and put the SATA connector on it would still work. I just put it back into an enclosure, and it still works to this day.

The third one was painful. I left a USB stick to write some stuff overnight, including a bunch of documents I had been working on (I know, bad decision). Surprise, USB dead in the morning, with the docs as well. Good thing I backed them up a few days before, but rewriting a whole chapter was a pain in the ass alright. And it was a Transcend stick, I thought that since one served me for ten years before, another should be fine. How naїve.

But the worst on was back in 2012. I've been collecting all sorts of stuff from imageboards, both American and foreign ones, since I was a little shit. There was up to 16 gigs of all sorts of stuff (back then it was quite big, sorta like 512 gigs now), pictures, threadshots, stories, things anons made - including an interesting song I found on Dvach, called HUYEGLYZLO or something. Basically it was a goofy-ass MIDI piece, but I loved it...

And I had to delete it all because my parents found out that I was browsing the Internet and wanted to give me a lecture about safe browsing or something. The worst part of it was that it was my decision, I CHOSE to delete all this stuff to make sure they never learn about what sort of sites I visit - after all, it was a family PC, I got mine a bit later - and the fuckers had the audacity to NEVER LOOK AT ALL! I DELETED ALL THIS SHIT FOR NOTHING!!!

Moral of the story: back up your fucking data and make sure nobody gets to it. ESPECIALLY yourself.

>instead of copying files off the usb I used ctrl x ctrl v
>transfer finishes
>27 files (off of several thousands) were copied, the rest just fucking vanished
Drives are weird
arguably useful to have happened cause copying, chrcking then deleting is a saner workflow
>have two 20tb hdds and ~36tb data total
>bought a double hdd enclosure
>controller claps out, both drives corrupted
>like a week before that I formatted four 5tb 2.5" which had copies of everything important
>left with every single hdd I owned either empty or corrupted
I managed to recover most files since it was mostly mft that was fucked but it took fucking forever, and to this day I’m not sure what data is actually missing - I know for sure there’s some youtube videos from a decade ago that probably aren’t even online anymore but outside of that who knows. I kinda bungled the data recovery, since I used the empty 2.5" drives to recover files to, instead of recovering from them — in all likelyhood the files there were untouched and the entire structure coulda been recovered since I didn’t write anything to them after formatting them.

Ah well, live and learn. Luckily all my music, photos and documents were also on an external ssd. Sometimes it pays being a hoarder

>>108985577
What does that mean?

>>108987327
You need to eat all the eggs

>>108977660
my main seagate hdd
>bought a new 2TB WD to back up up my main old hdd
>be lazy for a whole yar and never actually do it
>spill some water on m ydesk it started ripping on the pc case
>quickly wiped everything thinkfs is ok
>15 mins pass sudden BSOD
>restart, nothing, BIOS says the 500GB seagate drive is 4GB and corrupted
>some droplets got into a very small seam between metal plates and dripped directly on the HDD
>data recovery at first told me its gonna be 90% with 800 euros cost, ok no problem
>after a week they call and tell me its completely garbage jumbled data all over the hdd

Lost pretty much everything 90% of 15 years worth of data
Barely managed to save some very important 10%, started using my new 2TB WD
>learn my lesson decide to order a second 2tb or 4tb for backups
>AI faggot kikes cause hdd and SSD 4x hyperinflation
>have to wait 1 year + for prices to drop

>>108987415
>AI faggot kikes cause hdd and SSD 4x hyperinflation
Anon cmon nobodys buying fucking 2tb hdds for a data center
You’re not buying a 16tb one as cheaply as 2 years ago but tiny drives like 2 or 4 tb barely rose in price
>ssd
Not great as long term backup drives

>>108987462
2 and 4 tb hdds are at least 2.5x in my country, if not ai then what?

>>108987363
Please clarify now!!

>>108987564
IIRC, there was a thread with a photo of a passed out prostitute and a question "What would you do to her when she wakes up, anon?" ten or so years ago. One anon posted that he would make her eat a whole plate of boiled eggs - and nothing else.

>>108987564
you must consume eggs, preferably all those that are presented to you.

>>108977660
Early digital camera, terribly made UI, fatfingered the controls while going to review a very important recording from earlier that day, and instantly deleted it. There was a confirmation dialog, but the confirm button was right beside the delete button and I managed to mush both at the same time. Whoever designed that didn't think that through.
I was pretty tech-incompetent at the time so I wasn't even aware that I might have been able to use recovery software.
Since then I've religiously made duplicates of important data first thing, have only had minor losses with a hardware failure. I'm sure it will happen eventually but I've been fortunate since. I guess I'm lucky I learned that lesson early.

>>108987644
No they're gross

>>108977660
I run a script to listen to some audio someone sent on here and it rm'd ~/ but it was just a fresh install and I lost nothing. I know it's retarded.

I was using an external dock for a couple 4tb drives for files and prons and stuff, plugged via USB on windows. It had two slots and I would sometimes insert another one while the first was running. Turns out it would cut power momentarily to the first drive when I did this but I didn't notice.
Anyway everything seemed fine for a year or so and then I went to try do a check/repair on the filesystem and most of my data suddenly got wiped. It must've been broken for ages and not writing the data properly.
It had been about 10 months or so since my last backup, so I ended up paying for a year of dmde. Recovered a lot and didn't lose much that was irreplaceable (I think). Lesson learned

Never, I maintain a proper backup system and schedule.

>>108978021
you don't need to backup that crap. torrents are disposable.

>>108991718
Not according to this thread. I'm in private trackers
And there's stuff I have that I already can't find anymore like old telenovelas translated in my local language

>>108987088
Yes that's it. Never seen it on anything else. It's so unique and unusual

>>108985524
retard

>>108993711
>replying to a post that old
seething

>>108987564
You will eat the eggs

Lost several TB of porn. I was walking around in a depressed haze for like 3 days.

>>108977660
early bitcoin wallet from when it was 1:$15 and i only got into it for dark web drugs

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>>108977660
>be me
>in my younger stupid AOLer days
>collecting mp3
>not allowed to have anything with "parental advisory."
>years pass
>still collecting
>napster, win mx, soulseek
>friend from the old neighborhood comes by
>"haha, hey anon, install gentoo!"
>"what's a gen2?"
>"haha, i'll show you, just create this partition..."
>thought it was 1337 h4x0r 5k1llz to into linux
>old friend formatted the wrong drive
>/dev/sdc gone
>was supposed to format /dev/sdb
>years of mp3's gone
>old friend now enemy
>"oh snap anon, im sorry, it'll be alright"
>"don't worry anon, everything will be alri--ACK"
>kick former friend to the curb
>never saw him again
>to this day, i have yet to try another gentoo install
>sticking with arch
>mfw i lost years of music and movie collection

feelsbadman

best thread on /g/ rn

>>108983365
anyone got that 30 yo saver meme in picrel?

i lost a ton of photos from 2006-2008 that i had on a seagate external that i had in college, i stupidly put the hdd on top of the pc and accidentally dropped it, lost all those memories forever now, trips with friends, family, cool things i did in the military etc

>>108977660
my HP craptop decided that it was time to update windows 10 five minutes before one of my college classes and then decided it was going to get stuck like that for several hours, when i force rebooted it got stuck on the repair screen.

I decided to just redo all my finals on my main PC after that, passed all my classes but I'm never buying an HP product after that piece of shit.

>>108996373
HP vice president here, I don't give a fuck. Thanks for your money, bitch

>>108996424
You're going to troubleshoot HP printers in hell for all eternity

>>108983440
Genius

>>108996373
Sounds like it was Microsoft's problem not HP's

Ok, so what are the lessons that we have learned from this thread?

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Had a 240gb sata ssd from another laptop filled to the brim with pictures, music, videos, comics, animations, bookmarks and a few games: was trying to free up some space by deleting the previous windows 11 installation files on the sata drive because i didnt boot from that drive anymore to put more stuff in it and make a 2nd backup, windows 11 freaked out took a shit on the drive and when I booted up again from the m.2 ssd windows said something about the sata drive being damaged, scanned it, installed updates and repaired it by fucking deleting my partition and making it a 100mb partition.

Dont know how the fuck it happened but I used 5 different data recovery tools to get everything back minus 9gbs of corrupted mixed stuff and a bunch of damaged/missing files, took me a whole fucking month to autistically compare files and see what was fubar and what was ok.

Fuck microslop and windows 11, its dogshit.

>8tb external hdd with 10+ years of data
>a pigeon flies into my room and bounces off of furtniture in panic
>flies into the usb cable that connects to the hdd, making it fall from ~100cm
>doesn’t boot again
fuck pigeons

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>>108982453
>along with 4tb of furry porn

damn anon, how much of a fugly loser do you have to be to hoard 4tb of garbarge?

>>108977681
>WD Blue
Immediately knew this was going to be a horror story. The entire blue series is cursed beyond comprehension.

>>108995655
How? That's nightmarish

I lost a tonne of BTC I mined after disconnecting my HDD and leaving it in a hot windowsill for about a week..
No idea how much I had on there but I probably wouldn't have a mortgage now

>>108977660
uh, when I rm rf'd a subdir of my overall srcdirectory.

>>108996995
Two is one
Ephemeral things and loss are parts of life. Rather than obsessing with data preservation, learn to move forward and accept it

back in the day, i was new to linux, so to partition a disk i clicked on create a new partition table, every partition disappeared 80GB drive
had a lot of family photos, will live in my memory

>>108977660
The brain damage severe drug abuse did throughout my teens

>>108998559
if only you knew you can recover from wiping the partition table

>>108998614
yup, forgot pointing that out, that drive was gone before i could even try it (dad sold the computer)

>>108977660
I've been lucky so far.

>>108998559
i also did my first backup with rsync, but didnt knew i had to do '-a' so some of my files have the same date, as it didnt saved the metadata, but is not that bad

>>108997673
take that back you stupid cunt son of a bitch wanker

>>108977660
9 tb of amateur chikan 90s videos

i dated a somewhat popular singer in Tokyo for like 6 months. She has a song on [redacted] movie soundtrack.
it was a whirlwind romance with the most incredible sex of my life. But as you might predict she was also totally insane, I broke the "don't stick your dick in crazy" rule. Had to end it for my own sanity, but a hard drive crash resulted in losing all my pictures of her. feels bad man

>>108978997
The hypnotist put you into a fugue state and got you to reveal the password and then used it behind your back to cash out.

>>108996989
no it was some pre-installed HP slopware that was fucking with the update

>>108977660
I had a bunch of federal agents pose as people who worked at a Genius Bar pour water on my hard drive that exonerates a lot of circumstances and reveals foul play.

>>108990400
classic

Had a power outage while running a Linux session with some NTFS drives mounted that I still hadn't gotten around to switching to EXT4.
Lost a good deal of images on one of them... Other one was fine, though.

>>108990400
>run a script to listen to some audio someone sent on here
Do you want to download some RAM too? I have DDR5, can send you a script.

>>108996187
>"don't worry anon, everything will be alri--ACK"
>kick former friend to the curb
Probably was possible to restore most of it. Unless your frind was a "friend" and did it on purpose with actual zeroes to your HDD.

>>108999245
1000%

>>108977660
unironically deleted system32 because there was a virus in there according to virus detector. would have been early xp or before. machine still booted but was completely fucked. couldn't access shit but could still boot ultima online so carried on using it for another quite a few months.

>>109001342
must have been xp since it's not trivial to delete the whole thing in xp. in 9x you could just delete the whole thing and it would absolutely not boot afterwards

>>108977660
8tb of FLAC music

>>108977660
>Whats the worst data loss you've ever suffered?
Watching Star Trek: Picard.

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>2011, new build, SilverStone Grandia case, new i7, new 2TB drive, GTX 580, my first SSD boot drive, so excited
>New 2TB dies only a few minutes into copying files over. Fuck, I'll have to RMA it.
>Remove new 2TB from computer, reassemble with old 500GB drive
>Power on computer - POP - fans stop - smoke
>New Motherboard: RIP
>Old 500GB: RIP
>Backup drive in the hotswap bay which I thought was so fuckin' cool: RIP
Only the new boot drive survived, both 500GB spinners died. The 2TB failing was just bad luck. Lost all my projects from when I was a game developer fresh out of college, including several Gameboy Color games I contributed to and photos from visiting Nintendo EAD in Kyoto.

I left a jewelers screwdriver in the case, sitting on the motherboard.

>>108977660
lost all of my data when my jumbo tape drive shit the bed. had to rebuild my library from discs, and stuff I had given to a friend. each tape was 30 megs (I think). I had about 20 tapes. the company changed hands and the new company discontinued the old drive. the internet was not a thing so I had no easy way of getting a replacement drive.

>>108977660
my current backup is windows backup to a 2tb hd for my computer which has a mirror on it.

my backup for everything else is as such:
3 NAS boxes. 2 with raid 1, one with raid 5.
I have several spares for the NAS boxes.
every so often I make blueray copies of the data. I make 2 copies of each disk. one goes in a disk holder, and the other goes in a fire resistant safe.
once I have made that backup I deleted the backed up files, and then run robocopy to mirror the data on the NAS boxes to 1 of the NAS boxes that is kept off when not in use.

once the robocopy mirror is done I shut down that backup NAS box then make a mirror copy to one of 2 hard drives in a docking station on top my computer. when that finishes I clone that drive to the other one.

A year worth of downloads on my phone. After an iceraven update, the first image I downloaded wiped out a bunch of shit on my downloads folders except for a few images. Still hurts.

my dad throwing away my old harddrives that had my 2006-2007 WoW screenshots on them...

not so much me but a customer of a company I worked for.

A large law firm that we setup all their servers and other stuff needed a backup. they had several TB of data back in 2010. They were being cheap when it came to backups and so we had to budget what got backed up and to where. There was a meeting and we setup the backups they way they wanted. backing up what they wanted. one of the backup that my boss sold them on was something called Symform. it was supposedly something like "RAID 96".

The way it worked was that your data was backed up to hard drives spread all over the world in something like a giant raid 5 but with thousands of disks.

We were required to allocate space for other peoples backups somewhere on our network, and then the data we wanted backed up would be backed up to the "cloud" of other peoples allocated space.

The servers were setup as a command line only Hyper-v server running several virtual servers. Our normal way of setting something like this was to make the OS drive a RAID 1 and then the rest of the drives were setup in a RAID 5 with at least 1 spare.

A new guy we hired engineered the whole thing based on Microslops "best practices" and by the time we found out what he did my boss said it was too late to fix. he had setup a raid 10 using all the drives and NO spares. He setup email notification in the DRAC and all was good.

Then the customer asked for a change which put the exchange server in a DMZ. so FF to 2012 and one day their network suddenly got super slow and data started disappearing. Now the new guy is a 7th day adventist and at sundown on friday to sundown Saturday he crawls in to his coffin not to be heard from no matter what.

>>109002891
So guess when this started? yup around 5pm on a friday. sundown comes and Casper goes offline leaving me to deal with trying to figure out what happened. His making the host server cmd line only caused major problems because I was not used to that, and it made EVERYTHING extremely difficult to diagnose. To make a long story very short when he put the exchange server in the DMZ he did not setup the DRAC and other monitoring software to properly connecto to the exchange server so we did not get the emails telling us that drives in the RAID 10 were dying. so everything was fine until key drives died and basically all the data (all the virtual servers) were lost.

Because of the choices the customer made large amounts of important law firm data was gone. but fear not when I restored some of the data from backup the 70 gigs of mp3's that were in one users folder those all got backed up.

So here is where the biggest fuckup came in. Symform backup (may they rot in hell) never fully happened. seems that our customers upload rates were nowhere near fast enough to backup much of anything useful. The restore did not work anywhere near as well as they said it would. I spent a couple weeks attempting to get data back from their cloud but their "RAID 96" was bullshit as most of the drives that contained our data appeared to be offline.

It was a giant festering cluster fuck and as you can guess it went to court. I do not know exactly how it ended but I know there was some kind of settlement that my company paid but we were not fully responsible because we had documentation that showed they did not want EVERYTHING backed up. I left the company shortly after this.

Not data, but I tried to fix my pod classic, by moving prast from another Ipod classic that had a broken internal HDD, so I just wante dto move the battery as mine was dead

I snapped the cable since I had just tried to use it as was hot enough to be flimsy, , I still have it as it is on a box, maybe ill try to mod it or something, since I really want a MP3, hate using my phone for music,always get interrupted by some random call or notification

>>108978328
youtube says somewhere deep in its documentation that old videos from accounts no longer in use would be deleted. I have yet to see that happen.

>>108977660
>had a broken 2.5" hdd.
>checked it with usb connector.
>keep it some days
>then physical destroyed it.
>and throwed it away.
>then i was connect my backup 2.5" hdd with usb.
>noticed that was the broken hdd and i throwed my working backup hdd away.
>no data lost since original data its all on my computer.
>checked hdd prices to buy new backup hdd.
>wtf prices so high.
>ah shit

>>108980348
I never leave pictures on my phone longer than a week or 2.

>>108977660
Hard drive failure at the end of 2012.
I had just finished college. I kept copies of every paper I had ever written since middle school to the end of college.
At the time I didn't care, but now in retrospect I was a bit devastated because it just seemed like that era of my life completely died.
After that I started using Google drive religiously.

>>108980944
>I bought a new controller board for it
unless you have the exact same board that will not work.

>>108981361
>i lost like 3tb of anime and all of the reaction images i collected over like 10 years
and nothing of value was lost.

>>108977660
3 years ago my two laptops are consumed by fire, archives from 2007 to 2023 lost forever.

>>108991750
I've seen dozens of those. they used to be very common.

>>108997758
I've never had a problem with them. I have many of them that are 10 years old and still going.

back in windows 98 days I would go in to computer stores and bring up a cmd line. I would run fdisk, and delete all the partitions. then close the command line and leave.

the next time the computers were rebooted they would be blank.

>all that unique porn that simply doesn't exist anymore

Like tears in the rain.

>>108977660
power failure killed an external hard drive with a bunch of old backups from a job I used to have including vendor-specific software. at least I don't need it and everyone that did has it or can get it. last time I had to get the the one piece of software I needed I forgot I had on there someone on reddit had anyways

>>109003275
yeahhh mcthinkin its based

>>108977660
In 2009 I bought one of those fancy 1tb per platter Seagate drives and put it in an enclosure, backed up all my isos, floppy disks, and scratched to hell dvds that I had used the piss out of. I used it a handful of times throughout the year and discarded all of my old media. I finally had the idea to upgrade my router a USb nas one, plugged it in, and nothing. The drive with 11 whole ass hours on it died. WD would repeat such a feat with 4tb reds I bought and rmad multiple times, every single time I was sent back another bad drive. Now I just buy used shit on eBay if it works it works. Everything from before that Seagate drive is completely lost.

>>108977660
My old 60gb ps3 Acked itself back in 2011. Didn't really have anything important on it besides old memes and random pics on the internet that i never saw again. The ps3 encrypts the drives and only the original ps3 the drive was hooked up to can read it so i couldnt just move the drive to another console or hook it up to a pc. I also lost access to a dropbox account i had in highschool, i last accessed it in like 2014 and after a few years i couldnt not remember the email i used and when i did i believe by the dropbox had deleted it due to not using it in years. On the dropbox i had some old pics and video i took with friends so it kinda sucked that that was lost.

>>108977660
We had two family computers when I was a kid. I had data on both that I cared about.
Eventually the computers were split between me and a sibling.
Everything on mine is preserved, fully backed up. The drive even still works like 20 years later. The other one, that shit was lost in no time. Nobody even knows what happened to the drive.

Never entrust data to family unless they also have data hoarding tendencies.

>>109003330
define unique porn

>>109004045
literally someone else's pc

>>109004136
I guess homemade/amateur stuff that got deleted over the years

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I dont really have much data to even archive anymore, less than 10 gigs worth of family vids and pics. Over time ive given less of a shit about media. I do have some music saved locally and cds though. i dont know what to do with pic related, ive got around 10 2.5 in hdds too.

>>109004219
ah, i was wondering if you were talking about alien shit

>>109004266
send them to me buddy

This thread is unfathomable

This thread is a tear-jerker.

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>>108977660
When I was 14 or 15, I was learning about PC hardware by taking my computer apart and swapping drives and RAM and shit, you know, the basics. This was right around when YouTube launched and I don't think I even knew about it yet, so it's not like I had videos to guide me through this stuff. I was just winging it the whole time and learning through trial and error.

Anyway, after doing something, I put it all back together and turned it on, and it wouldn't boot. I opened the case and noticed I had forgotten to plug the molex connector into the HDD. I wondered if I could just plug that in and the PC would detect the HDD and boot Windows without having to turn it off, then on again. As soon as I tried plugging it in, there was a spark and the PC didn't detect the drive. After reboots and replugging the drive and reseating the IDE connectors, I had to accept that the drive was kill.

My mom lost her fucking mind about not being able to play XP Spider Solitaire before work and actually cried, lmao. I lost a couple GB of hentai, but wasn't that upset, it could all be replaced. We got an old HDD from her friend a couple days later.

I became pretty diligent about backups since then, so no major issues over the past 21 years. One of my 8TB backup HDDs just got full recently, so I got a spindle of 50 25GB BD-Rs 2 days ago. I've been burning discs constantly for the past 2 days. I'm not burning all 8TB, that would take over 300 of these discs, just the most important stuff that either can't be replaced (like pet pics/vids) or was a pain in the ass to find, like certain versions of various media.

Here's a pic of my hamster from December 21, 2004 that I took with my first digital camera I had gotten early for Christmas. He was a good boy, very smart and friendly, lived a little longer than average as well before dying of a mysterious condition that started with lower limb paralysis. He must have broke his back somehow, that's all I can come up with, it was odd.

>>108977660
USB stick failure on the same day as HDD failure. HDD had my Bitcoin wallet. USB stick had backup. Total loss: 16.36btc. approximate monetary loss at time: $818,000

I was in hospital on literal suicide watch over 1s and 0s. Since then, EVERYTHING of any value gets backed up on 3 separate storage devices and at LEAST two off-site storage locations.

>>108978654
He literally called it his C: drive. That should tell you everything
>>108978762
Bro this happened to me from brain damage caused by quitting booze, benzos and heroin cold turkey on the same day. I lost a whole 2 years of my life.