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# what I find fun
is when you backup everything

and you format the old drive

and it's

oh

15 minutes in

there was stuff

think of kittens when it happens
(, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 15:41, archived)
# I did this on an old laptop
on which I'd saved around 200 photos from an amazing explore in a derelict school which was later demolished. Because it was a slightly naughty activity, I stored the photos in an obscure folder.

OK, all clear, all backed up, load up Darik's to format the drive to sell it on eBay. Well, that's going fine, I can go and make a cup of... hang on - the photos!

*bites lip*


...lost.
(, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 15:55, archived)
# eep
:(

it could have been a nice little surprise for the buyer :)
(, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 16:53, archived)