Quote Originally Posted by Thomas View Post
Setting the mood. Back in 2008 I had just received my first computer that was to be exclusively used by me. It didn't take long for me to figure out I'd be needing an external hard drive, so I purchased a 160Gb Seagate external drive. Naturally, my family took advantage of the drive and backed up all their cameras and phones pictures onto there. Afterwards, they would totally wipe their SD card.

Fast forward to late 2008, I discovered linux. Once I figured out how to burn the iso to a dvd, I reboot and install it. Back then, I didn't know much of computers. So naturally, I choose the external drive as the target disk. Sure enough, I come to find out the drive's been formatted, erasing almost every digital picture me family's taken over the past five-ish years.

And that kids, is why I'm the man I am today.

Side note: To this day, I name my external drive "Seagate" and assign it drive letter "H". In memory of the formatted disaster.
Did the same thing with my family's camera in Morocco , it was in french and I couldn't read french at the time, so instead of choosing "supprimer" , I chose "tout supprimer" and which meant "Delete all" xD
Nobody trusts me with that kind of stuff anymore