Have any of you ever lost important data and never got it back?

[Nocturnal]

I formatted and lost well over a year's worth of e-mail that I thought I had backed up. I'm very sad.

I take that back, I found a recent back up from September of 04.

 

[quakefiend420]

yeah...i reformatted my htpc not too long ago and lost a bunch of music i had on there...i thought i had transferred them to my server but didnt...lost 13 gigs of music

 

[jst0ney]

yeah but I didn't make two posts about it.

 

[Nocturnal]

Sorry jst0ney. The other post was about Apple in general.

 

[jst0ney]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Sorry jst0ney. The other post was about Apple in general.

yeah sorry I'm a little testy tonight. I'm job hunting tomorrow. Too bad it was an apple. I can help you on a pc. I've lost tons of data and recovered it with little problem.

 

[KingNothing]

It was?

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: jst0ney

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Sorry jst0ney. The other post was about Apple in general.

yeah sorry I'm a little testy tonight. I'm job hunting tomorrow. Too bad it was an apple. I can help you on a pc. I've lost tons of data and recovered it with little problem.

No it was a PC that I lost the data on. I was exporting the data to a .pst file and I closed everything down before it had saved the entire data. I tried saving it with a bunch of different programs. I've given up. At least I found that back up from September. ::Furiously Beats on my whatever meter::

 

[nageov3t]

define important. heh.

I few years back, I lost a crapload of movies, music videos, and televisions shows when I reformatted and assumed I had them backed up elsewhere. but oh well; stealing is bad.

 

[Xionide]

My dog ate the only video I had with my friend after he died.

 

[Nocturnal]

E-mails.

 

[jst0ney]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal

Originally posted by: jst0ney

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Sorry jst0ney. The other post was about Apple in general.

yeah sorry I'm a little testy tonight. I'm job hunting tomorrow. Too bad it was an apple. I can help you on a pc. I've lost tons of data and recovered it with little problem.

No it was a PC that I lost the data on. I was exporting the data to a .pst file and I closed everything down before it had saved the entire data. I tried saving it with a bunch of different programs. I've given up. At least I found that back up from September. ::Furiously Beats on my whatever meter::

Ever try anything from R-Studio? I have had the best luck with them.

 

[Goosemaster]

I once lost 40-50GB of music..I cried.


Now I have industrial-grade recovery software..takes ages to work, but worth it.

 

[zoiks]

Once my hard drive crapped up on me and I couldnt get it to boot at all. I used a software called Tiramisu to get all the data of the hard drive though it took me about 14 hours to do so.

 

[TallBill]

I still havn't seen anyone post about losing Important data... Email and illegal music/programs hardly qualifies as important.

 

[mobobuff]

My 10-page essay from my Junior year of high school about the pointlessness and corrupt objectives of public schools in America. Most meaningful thing I've ever written.

That and some good porn.