A couple of weeks ago, we asked for your most special and nasty data loss disasters. The story that provided us with the warmest, sweetest sense of schadenfreude was to win Seagate's new OneTouch 4 Mini, in its 80GB incarnation. Here are some of the best.
Malexius has a cat:
"Well, I had gone out to dinner and when i returned, I smelled cat urine down the hall. I immediately knew that she was locked in my office and opened the door to an awful stench. She has been known to be vindictive when she doesn't get her way, and this time she pissed on the external hard drive and my keyboard."
Ryan K. takes the entire family down with him:
"I ran Fdisk to erase the problem windows install. Unfortunatley, I deleted the wrong drive and years of artwork was gone. Not to mention pictures of my kids and my Wife's unfinished novel... apparently never to be finished now..."
Honorable mentions go to Greg Nelson, whose "disaster recovery exercise" went all-too live; Mike, who, astonishingly, trusted Amiga floppies (!); to Mike Patterson, who nearly lost a $250k gig thanks to a damaged drive; and to Adam Hegi, who took a bit too long to back up his father-in-law's lifetime-worth of sailing memories.
The rest of the tales are here. But the winner, on grounds of Smut Humiliation, is Kyle Castillo:
"I freak out and try to let my dad fix it, he takes the harddrive to Best Buy to see if they can recover anything from it. They do recover somethings, but not my thesis, or any of my portfolio work.
Most of what is recovered is my modest lesbian porn collection."
Kyle, Come On Down!
