Everyone gets it eventually...

[Wing Nut]

Well, I am living proof that it's a good idea to store your vital stuff online.  I was trying to resize a partition today and something screwed up somewhere and I lost everything on two of my four partitions.  Fortunately, FS was one of the ones I didn't lose, even though it was the one I wanted to resize.  I did lose my windows partition, and my music partition with every CD I had stored from my collection (not bootlegged), and several that were bootlegged.  I also lost every picture, document, and file I needed.  

All gone...  >:(

So, just for the hell of it; did this ever happen to you?

[Hagar]

I can sympathise. About 1 month ago my HD fried itself. Needless to say I hadn't taken my own advice to back everything up. I lost everything, including irreplaceable source files. Nobody to blame but myself. Let this be a warning. It's so easy to back up to CD as you go.

[Iroquois]

Bootlegging music my dear Pippin. Tsk tsk, you could go to jail now.

I must admit that I messed up my BIOS not too long ago. I had to reset the COMOS for my computer to work.

[Wing Nut]

In my defense, I must say I only had about 10 songs I had bootlegged compared to almost 2000 from my personal collection...  A bigger loss was all of the files that were not music.  All kinds of Aviation footage, documents, etc...  

[Iroquois]

[quote]In my defense, I must say I only had about 10 songs I had bootlegged compared to almost 2000 from my personal collection...

[btbrossard]

As long as you didn't do a low level format on the drive (write zeros, ones, ect... to the partitions you lost) you should be able to get your data back.

A number of software programs allow you to scan the entire disk for files that were lost due to deletion, formating, bad "fdisking"

[btbrossard]

By the way, this just happened to my brother in-law last week.  I spent the weekend getting his stuff back.

/Benjamin

[chomp_rock]

I have a special EMP device and accidently destroyed an HD with it once when I accidently pressed the "Fire" button on it. I guess you could say I'm

[Smoke2much]

That's happened to me more times than I care to admit .  I usually have a system meltdown every six months or so, I better be quiet though or I'll talk another one up.

Will

[Paz]

 Earlier this year one of my machines refused to boot up, somehow the boot files got corupted, this wasn't so bad though, I just put the HD in another machine and grabbed everything I didn't want to lose before I restored the system.
 I've lost data in the past, but never a major HD crash where I've lost everything.

[Hagar]

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[Polynomial]

I leave everything the way it comes, and I never have any trouble.

[Jared]

Sorry to hear about the computer problems...

I have a laptop and a desktop, so every couple of days I synchronize both computers to each other.  Doing this will almost always gaurantee that I will never lose another file again.  

On the bright side, the computer should run better when you reformat! :-)

Have fun!

Silly Boy

[Hagar]

I leave everything the way it comes, and I never have any trouble.

I'm sure we've all said exactly that. "It will never happen to me". This is what makes it so much worse when disaster strikes without warning. A few simple precautions like backing up important files will make things much easier if & when it should happen.

[HawkerTempest5]

This, or something like it, has happened to me twice. First time I lost everything and had nothing backed up. I've never made that mistake again.
Sorry to hear about your lost stuff Pippin, hope you get it at least some of it again.