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I accidentally wipe the wrong hard drive with all my work on it

submitted by anon to Confessions 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 13:16:55 ago (+19/-1)     (Confessions)

I had an ssd fail and I wiped another (wrong) ssd in the process. I get the stupid award for today. My punishment is wasting hours today looking at progress bars restoring what I can. Luckily I think I lost about a day worth of important work and some other unimportant files. Let this serve as a reminder to back up your files, especially the stuff you care about.


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[ - ] anon 3232744 4 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 13:19:45 ago (+4/-0)

You can probably recover it

normal format only deletes/overwrites a tiny bit of filesystem metadata, but does not overwrite all of the data itself. The data is still there. This is especially true on SSDs, due to wear levelling and other features of SSDs.

https://www.easeus.com/file-recovery/recover-deleted-files-on-ssd.html

[ - ] anon 2069132 0 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 21:16:51 ago (+0/-0)

Can confirm this works.

[ - ] anon 2672374 [op] -1 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 13:20:49 ago (+0/-1)

I probably could. But then I have to become an expert in file recovery. I will just redo the work I lost.

[ - ] anon 3232744 2 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 13:21:52 ago (+2/-0)

[ - ] anon 2672374 [op] -1 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 13:29:56 ago (+0/-1)

Recover up to 2GB data for free on Windows 11/10/8/7

That's the type of shit I was trying to avoid. Is there no free and open source alternative?

[ - ] anon 1433556 2 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 13:37:00 ago (+2/-0)

Just pirate the software. I’ve used cracked recovery programs a few times. They worked fine.

[ - ] anon 1433556 1 point 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 13:38:47 ago (+1/-0)

[ - ] anon 2686299 0 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 16:51:51 ago (+0/-0)

[ - ] anon 2672374 [op] 1 point 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 19:31:23 ago (+1/-0)

Thanks. I don't need it but good to know for the future.

[ - ] deleted -5 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 13:34:40 ago (+0/-5)

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[ - ] anon 2672374 [op] -1 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 13:39:09 ago (+0/-1)

Why would I write a very useful programme and then give it to you for free?

People do it for recognition and donations.

[ - ] deleted 0 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 13:43:32 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] anon 2672374 [op] 0 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 13:55:55 ago (+1/-1)

Notice how real businesses do not act in such a retarded fashion?

Free and open source trumps anything a business can shit out.

[ - ] deleted 0 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 15:37:29 ago (+0/-0)*

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[ - ] anon 2069132 0 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 21:18:17 ago (+0/-0)

Most of the files will still have the nomenclature you gave them but might have extra characters associated with it.

It is time consuming but worth it if you really need to recover the files.

[ - ] anon 3411386 2 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 13:26:16 ago (+2/-0)

[ - ] 0000000000002 1 point 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 21:16:52 ago (+1/-0)

Whoops!!! Yeah, I had a raid5 with all my media on it and I fucked up replacing a drive. Goodbye 5tb of movies, tv and music. Oh well. Most of it was shit in retrospect.

[ - ] GrayDragon 1 point 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 17:22:06 ago (+1/-0)

Jesus and Satan have a discussion as to who is the better programmer. This goes on for a few hours until they come to an agreement to hold a contest, with God as the judge.

They sit themselves at their computers and begin. They type furiously, lines of code streaming up the screen, for several hours straight. Seconds before the end of the competition, a bolt of lightning strikes, taking out the electricity. Moments later, the power is restored, and God announces that the contest is over.

He asks Satan to show what he has come up with. Satan is visibly upset, and cries, "I have nothing. I lost it all when the power went out."

"Very well, then," says God, "let us see if Jesus fared any better."

Jesus enters a command, and the screen comes to life in vivid display, the voices of an angelic choir pour forth from the speakers. Satan is astonished.

He stutters, "B-b-but how? I lost everything, yet Jesus' program is intact. How did he do it?"

God smiled all-knowingly, "Jesus saves."

-- Sorry.

[ - ] anon 2672374 [op] 0 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 19:25:18 ago (+0/-0)

lol

[ - ] anon 3170170 0 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 21:14:48 ago (+0/-0)

this is one of my lame tech jokes.

[ - ] anon 2069132 0 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 21:21:49 ago (+0/-0)

👍

[ - ] anon 1735141 1 point 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 14:12:56 ago (+2/-1)

thank you for telling the tale glownigger

[ - ] anon 3170170 0 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 21:15:38 ago (+0/-0)

why would you bother wiping ssds? also if you're wiping machines, never have live or valuable disks hooked up.

[ - ] anon 4558184 0 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 18:45:04 ago (+0/-0)

[ - ] anon 4965310 0 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 18:39:47 ago (+0/-0)

I've used these two programs more than once on mine and other people's drives.

https://www.techradar.com/reviews/testdisk-and-photorec

[ - ] anon 4558184 1 point 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 18:42:21 ago (+1/-0)

testdisk is awesome! Just download https://www.system-rescue.org/Download/ and run testdisk. It'll recover all your files.

[ - ] anon 1716927 0 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 17:54:43 ago (+0/-0)

Wiped it how? Like with a rag?

[ - ] anon 4005993 0 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 15:47:14 ago (+0/-0)

[ - ] anon 3962981 0 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 15:32:30 ago (+0/-0)

I deleted my checkout the other day. Luckily all my buffers were still stuck in the editor in RAM.

[ - ] anon 6858263 0 points 1.9 yearsJun 10, 2023 15:07:51 ago (+0/-0)

Even if you get some cheap storage. Like pCloud. Dump there factory tool and take the time to configure rclone. It works on almost all platforms and is tight as fuck.