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So I decided to upgrade my home machine from 13.1 to 13.37.... In every update I all ways take out all of my hdd and leave the one I want to write too..... This time I decide to leave it alone and just choose the correct disk and just be care full.... That didnt go so well... LOL
I for got that I had my usb back up drive connected and confused my usb back up drive with my internal storage/backup drive and lost everything on my internal drive....
In top of that I have no clue why I let lilo during install recreate the mbr rewriting my primary mbr and making me loose my chain.... BURN on me! ooo well lesson learn.
Distribution: Void, Linux From Scratch, Slackware64
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Not as bad as what I did once, I mounted a 1TB drive temporarily in tmp and then forgot it was there, later I decided to do some house cleaning and decided to clear out the tmp folder using rm -r and yes I forgot to umount the drive! I don't ever want to try and recreate 1TB of data ever again!
Not as bad as what I did once, I mounted a 1TB drive temporarily in tmp and then forgot it was there, later I decided to do some house cleaning and decided to clear out the tmp folder using rm -r and yes I forgot to umount the drive! I don't ever want to try and recreate 1TB of data ever again!
I feel your pain. Though the data was important to me it was not that important for me to recreate the data.....
For the sake of this story, lets assume that I had 20k+ family photos, music, etc... on a hard drive.
The hard drive went a little loopy and had some bad sectors, but it still worked, so I ordered the replacement, which turned out being a "We will send you the new one, and you put the old one in the box and send it back."
Well. I did.
But I never backed up what was on the drive before I sent it.
For the sake of this story, lets assume that I had 20k+ family photos, music, etc... on a hard drive.
The hard drive went a little loopy and had some bad sectors, but it still worked, so I ordered the replacement, which turned out being a "We will send you the new one, and you put the old one in the box and send it back."
Well. I did.
But I never backed up what was on the drive before I sent it.
w0w that hurts.... :/
I even feel bad... I dont know why but I want to say Sorry...
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