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Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping? (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 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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[–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wiped my drive with a lot of non-backed-up data on it intentionally because the Fedora installer was too confusing. Lost among other things my Celeste and Minecraft saves, a lot of images, and other stuff with sentimental value.

[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unless you meant to destroy all of that data, that was unintentional not intentional.

[–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It was intentional, it was just also dumb and a bad decision

[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You meant to destroy your data?

[–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, I didn't think about it a lot before doing it, that's why it was dumb

[–] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn. I am sorry for that loss. I agree, I am always boggled every time I use the Fedora installer. I don't know how I clicked the wrong disk. I didn't read close enough, or I don't know.

I hope the new things you make are better than what was wiped.

[–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbh I don't even remember much of the stuff that I lost anymore. I had a lot of images, a legally downloaded series, a good amount of legally downloaded music that I keep forgetting I don't have on my phone, the aforementioned game saves, and I don't remember more rn. I was luckily more creative during school so the more important stuff (Siberian sniper crocodile) was on another device.

[–] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Lucky me most of the important stuff are things I have on another computer, or can redownload from email or whatever service that needed it.

But my new passwords.... oh well. Recovery is typically easy.

What sucks is losing things you did not know you would need or miss until much later.