Have you ever lost everything on your HDD?

Have you ever lost EVERYTHING on your HDD? If so, how much stuff was it and what kind of things? I think I just did on my laptop

 

Yes on my first computer. It was an AST 125 MegaHertz with a whopping 4 Megs of RAM and 120 Meg HD. Windows 3.1 and DOS 6. I was removing Doublespace and ended up with a 10 pound paperweight. I lost all my WordPerfect documents and whatever else you could store on 120 megs.

 

Yes i also lost my old data bon HDD because of power conjuction.

 

nope.i hav no experiance like that.

 

Still today I have not lost anything data which is important for me.
I always take backup before formatting of computer.
Be careful..

 

I had a few hard drives crash on me over the years, not a fun experience.

 

Yes I lost my data on my first computer but that wasn't not important data.

 

I actually did during my time in China, since my laptop crashed and I had to have it repaired. Although it only cost me the equivalent of AU$4, now my Windows is in Chinese!

 

yup.....
not at HDD only..
but my laptop also gone....

 

So far as I know, nothing like this has ever happened before.

 

yes it happened several times. the first time it was pretty important information, i lost all the work i have done for several years.

 

While I don't know too much about the technical aspect, I believe my hard drive overheated at one point. It left me temporarily without access to the computer and led to me having to buy a new computer. However, I retrieved MOST of the files on the hard drive after buying a conversion adapter to connect the HD to USB and transfer the files.

Sadly, the files that I did lose were pretty expensive. That would be Microsoft software, purchased from Staples, that added up to over a thousand dollars. Not pretty, especially losing Microsoft Word for such a long time - it left a few current projects in a struggling mess.

Ahh, the painful memories. Now I recall how miserable it was attempting to convert the .docx files into .txt or .rtf so I could send them to my clients at the time. Okay, going to back out of this thread now...happy thoughts.

This computer is nearly trashed too, glad I'm using the old hard drive as back up now!

 

Ya I lost my important data on my first computer.

 

once, but nothing important though

 

Yeah! But, nothing more than some movies and games... It was early days.

 

yes i have i had a whole 500gb hard disk that was about 9 months old and contained all my music and videos...

changed my computer case and boom, doesnt work after the case had been changed...

then i contacted samsung to get a replacement and they wanted me to pay the postage and packaging just to get it repaired.... ha i dont think so not when it cost me £70

 

Around 3 yrs ago I lost around 40 GB of data: documents, photos, music and so on! I had only one disc on my laptop, and once I decide to make a few partitions on it, at that time i was not aware of loosing all data and have not backed it up! By some reasons, the process of partition went wrong and all data lost. Since that day i back up everything that may have value for me!

 

it has happen to me a while back, for safety i use backups frequently.

 

1 year back, I had to format my HDD completely after a serious virus attack. I lost around 120 GB of important data that time.